‘Detoxification’

Treatment Plan

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Treatment Plan
The treatment plan has the primary objective detoxification care for physical, mental and emotional health of the person requesting help while going through a process ideal therapeutic tools for the acquisition of emotional, cognitive and spiritual guide him to live in recovery during and at the end treatment.

The length of time recommended for this therapeutic process is a minimum of twelve months, but each case will be assessed by the clinical team. This treatment is structured in three phases:

PHASE I:
Detoxification, Addiction Treatment
and Immersion

The objectives of this phase are:

Detoxification, suited to the characteristics of each patient under close medical supervision may take place in a hospital if they require, whilst ensuring the health and patient safety.

Identify and assess dependency, through interviews with the patient and those close to him, to develop an appropriate treatment plan for each person.

Control and monitoring of the patient withdrawal as a first stage in which its resources are not developed, along with a growing awareness of his illness, the consequences of it and their desire for change.

Immersion treatment, familiar with the treatment model, therapeutic team and his teammates, while beginning to identify and replace the habits acquired during consumption.

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Drug treatment: support, withdrawal and detoxification

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

drug detoxIn the case of drug overdose or poisoning generated criticism in a person, is essential to implement emergency treatment. Usually you have to relieve the respiratory system because there is often loss of consciousness, what it means to be temporarily connected to a ventilator. This shows that any drug treatment directly depends on the type of drug.

Detoxification means partial suspension of the drug that the addict is dependent, this is happening under controlled situations, often it is given a similar drug in order to reduce the dangers of abstinence.

Rehabilitation
Can be defined as the stage rehabilitation after detoxification. There are different therapies: individual, group or family. Typically these processes are prolonged for more than a month. There are also alternative treatments for those individuals who do not sympathize with inpatient treatment.

The Depression

In the event that there are disturbances in mood of drug addicts, such as depression, you should be careful because the risks are significant.

Those who offered drug treatment in the past discouraged the use of antidepressant medication, argumentantazo was not the right technique, that recourse was usually back to the substance. In short, we can state that the abuse of certain drugs arises from the need to self-treat mental illness. Vale clarify that abuse and dependence on a chemical can be fatal. Relapse after abstinence leads to a new addition.

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