Archive for November, 2007


Rebuilding and finding strength

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Addiction treatment facilities could be in house or out house patients. The patients are exposed to an environment that will deal with a lot of counseling, as well as physical help. With the counseling, they will be taken step by step, and helped psychologically as well as emotionally to grow.

Physical help is a part of addiction treatment, as the alcoholics and drug addicts will need good nutrition charts, and also physical exercise. All this will help build the body, to a stage as it was before the drug abuse began. The addiction treatment programs time will differ from person to person, as they would have been exposed to different drugs, and they will also vary with response to treatment.

For the drug addicts to achieve better results, the family must play an important role while the individuals are in the residential rehabilitation centers.

This way, the patients will recover faster. At extreme stages, the patient may also additional medicines that will help him recover, from the urge to use the drugs. This will be prescribed by health professionals in the centers.

Long-Term Residential Treatment provides care 24 hours per day, generally in nonhospital settings

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Long-Term Residential Treatment provides care 24 hours per day, generally in nonhospital settings. The best-known residential treatment model is the therapeutic community (TC), but residential treatment may also employ other models, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy. TCs are residential programs with planned lengths of stay of 6 to 12 months. TCs focus on the “resocialization” of the individual and use the program’s entire “community,” including interventionists, other residents, staff, and the social context, as active components of treatment. Addiction is viewed in the context of an individual’s social and psychological deficits, and treatment focuses on developing personal accountability and responsibility and socially productive lives. Addiction treatment centers are highly structured and can at times be confrontational, with activities designed to help residents examine damaging beliefs, self-concepts, and patterns of behavior and to adopt new, more harmonious and constructive ways to interact with others. Many TCs are quite comprehensive and can include employment training and other support services on site. Compared with patients in other forms of drug treatment, the typical TC resident has more severe problems, with more co-occurring mental health problems and more criminal involvement. Research shows that TCs can be modified to treat individuals with special needs, including alcohol addiction, drug addiction, adolescents, women, those with severe mental disorders, and individuals in the criminal justice system.