Perhaps, you are like a number of parents with a drug dependent off-spring. You decided that going cold turkey was the best way for your child to kick the drug habit. Consequently, the drug dependent kid is locked away in their home, detoxing on their own. This is a bad, life threatening decision. The fact is that detox alone won’t cure drug addiction. The primary purpose of detox is to remove all the drugs out of the system and cleanse the body. Thus, giving the body time to heal and recover from the addiction. However, drug addiction is also a behavioral problem too. Therefore, cleansing the body and treating the person’s mental addiction is important.
Mind & Body Focus
The sobering fact is that detox in combination with treating the addictive drug behavior is vital to complete recovery. Detox alone does not end the addictive behavior. Often, the individual is unable to handle the negative symptoms that are a part of detox. They return to drugs to handle the withdrawal symptoms. A professional detox program will help your child to free their body from the drugs and clean all the toxins out of their system. An in house detox program will help the individual with their withdrawal symptoms too. However, complete drug treatment requires that the individual changes his addictive behavior. Clearly, getting free of the addictive behavior is a twofold process.
Treating Emotional Side Of Drug Addictive Behavior
Certainly, it takes a professional rehab center or private counseling to focus in on the emotional side of drug addictive behavior. The fact is that the drugs have a very strong effect on the brain’s wiring. It’s vital to focus on rewiring the brain. Generally, this involves focusing on the emotional and mental aspects of drug addiction. Rehab centers work with the individual in group sessions, private sessions, to help the individual start to heal and to clear their mind. The fact is that a professional detox program primarily focuses on healing the body, while a complete rehab treatment requires changing the addictive behavior and building resistance to drugs mentally too.
Detox is the first step to complete rehabilitation. Detox cleanses the body and prepares it for the next step. If you have a child or another family member that is addicted to drugs, a rehab facility might be required to completely end the dependency on drugs.
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