Until a person takes full control over their compulsions, they will always be subject to relapsing back into abusing cocaine. A full rehab for cocaine abuse ends the cycle of relapse. But what is a full rehab for cocaine abuse and how would that work exactly?
DrugRehabAdvisor has been working on finding and selecting the best fitted cocaine rehab programs for rehab clients. A client of Drugrehabadvisor is someone who is receiving consulting freely from us about ending their drug abuse problem.
Cocaine addiction is described fairly well on our video called “How Drug Abusers Think”. The best Cocaine rehab is selected for that individual by Drugrehabadvisor and we then work with the intake counselors to get started and enrolled into that rehab center.
Cocaine rehab is best understood as a method of increasing a person’s tolerance for living naturally and in communication with themselves and the people in their lives. Achieving acceptance and pride who one is is the real key to overcoming any need to relapse. So Cocaine rehab gets a person back in touch with themselves and regain or gain a sense of true personal happiness.
What’s the difference between one rehab program and another? Which drug and alcohol detox and rehab program should you or a loved one go to? Do you know the different types or models of recovery?
Here is a summary of the different detox and rehab programs that I am familiar with after working in the field of drug abuse for 10 years as a drug rehab consultant and drug prevention specialist.
Medical detox is the use of medications, such as benzodiazepines, clonidine, suboxone, etc, to more smoothly withdraw someone from alcohol, methadone, opiates or other drugs of abuse. Approved medical facilities and medical doctors and staff are required to administer the various treatments to assist with difficult or otherwise long withdrawals from these drugs.
Some medical detox facilities use a combination of medical and natural / holistic approaches to detox. These methods generally speed recovery time and comfort through withdrawal according to client testimonials.
This might mean withdrawing someone from drugs without medication. Non-medical detox is sometimes more effective than medical detox as a drug abuser is sick of using drugs and is highly averse to any more drugs going into their bodies. Non-medical detox may mean the highly skilled use of alternative nutrients, sometimes IV’s and natural therapy’s to assist a person to more comfortably withdrawal and detox from drugs / pharmaceuticals and correct brain function. (Agora Regeneration Clinics Ltd)
Some medical and non-medical detox is highly sophisticated and involves many testing and evaluation protocols not used by traditional medical detox centers. IE nutrient, vitamin and allergy testing to name only a few.
Drug residuals have been found to get lodged in the fatty tissues of the body. This includes the brain, kidney, liver, muscles as well as the fat. Former drug abusers sometimes relapse back to using drugs due to physical cravings for the drugs which they say doesn’t go away after medical detox or rehab.
Bio-physical Detox involves a total and full detoxification requiring weeks or months of natural detox methods like extensive sauna baths, vitamin and nutritional supplementation, intensive exercise, proper rest, improving diet, drinking lots of water, etc.
Some Bio-physical Detox has been given extensive scientific testing and proven itself under many different populations – drug addicts; hazardous chemical / gas victims (fire fighters, pesticides / herbicides — DDT; mental / spiritual betterment, health improvement. (see Townsend Letter Apr 2006 #273)
Traditional rehab and 12 Step models comprise about 95% of the rehab facility programs in the US and Canada. Their successes vary massively depending on the center and how the center defines success. One center can vary greatly from another in terms of professionalism, care and results.
12 Step programs attempt to intervene between the decisions to abuse drugs and desires to stay clean. A drug addict or alcoholic have been solving life’s problems with a fix, drink, hit, or other drugs. 12 Step methods use sponsors, meetings, actions, education, etc techniques to stop further drug abuse. 12 Step programs also resemble social educational programs from step 4 onward, as a personal responsibility in ones recovery is expected of a 12 stepper. 12 Step includes principals of spiritual connection through-out the process.
Medical / psychological rehab programs use different drugs and counselors in their intervention efforts. Usually medical programs are either trying to make a client more comfortable while in rehab or they have actually done some extensive testing to find underlying medical problems which could by spurring the substance abuser to use drugs. A typical example is hypo-thyroid conditions. Psychological approaches either attempt to correct aberrant behavior through adjusting the thinking of the client. It may involve on-going counseling for in-determinant amounts of time after a stay in rehab is completed.
Sometimes drugs that create aversion to drinking are used as with Schick Shadel programs. Other substitute drugs like methadone for opiate abuse and Ritalin for cocaine / meth abuse have been used by many program models.
Social Educational or learning models focus on improving abilities and increasing self control or will power through enlightenment or cognitive realization. Combinations of study, exercise, counseling and practical application of processes are applied to bring about desired states of being. Often a type of therapeutic community is established due to the camaraderie of clients assisting each other through the tough times of their recovery.
As social educational programs are my forte, I will list the specific programs I am familiar with along with their posted success rates.
Jude Thaddeus Program (JT), or St. Jude’s is a social/educational approach rather than a medical/psychological methodology putting control over one’s recovery in their own hands rather than a doctor, psychologist, or group. JT provides an opportunity to permanently recover, because JT believe’s it is a choice – not a disease. JT’s success rate for 12 years is over 68%. (Ref: St. Jude Retreat House)
Rational Recovery or RR, has a different approach than traditional or 12 Step methods. RR labels different behaviors and parts of a mind model to get a person to recover through cognitive or increased awareness and control over their addictions. Focus is on self-recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs through planned, permanent abstinence through greater self awareness / control. (Ref: Jack Trimpey, Founder RR)
Narconon (NN) Drug Rehabilitation is a drug-free all natural social educational approach to ending addiction. Narconon considers clients as students who are not trying to recover from an illness. NN students enroll to learn something that they didn’t already know. NN addresses the disabilities caused by drug abuse with new abilities, new skills for effective living. Narconon posts success rates averaging 75% Narconon uses the non-medical detox & Bio-physical method of detoxification. (Narconon: An Overview Of Results).
Do you still have questions about which detox and rehab programs would be best for your loved one?
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Anyone drug abuser asking to go to rehab is ready to quit abusing drugs. If rehab isn’t successful, sometimes the addict or the rehab program is blamed for the rehab failure. But blaming doesn’t solve the problem. Most people simply want to get a win and see rehab work.
Right Rehab Program + Addict & Willing Family = Rehab Success
First finding a rehab that actually rehabilitates an addict is vital. Coddling a drug abuser is kinder than throwing them in jail. While some are caught up in the different methods of how to change behavior, most of us simply want a successful rehab result. Whatever works, we’ll do it – that’s the right attitude.
I’ve clearly defined Rehabilitation and written about this fully. Rehab means returning to full and complete health and responsibility. Rehab that brings about a condition of accountability and responsibility is a rehab program worth looking into.
Drug Rehab Advisor first completes a full consultation with the family trying to help a loved one end addictive behavior.
Once an assessment of needs and wants are completed, the family then is given suggestions and strategies to move forward toward a successful recovery model for both addict and family.
Contact www.drugrehabadvisor.com, watch our video on the home page and begin to plan for successful rehabilitation.
Heroin Rehab & detox is actually a gift and reward to someone addicted to heroin. Heroin rehab is a gift to yourself when you give rehab to someone you love. It saves your life and theirs, even if they don’t thank you for rehab.
Heroin makes addicts numb from consequences, pain, regret, even actual health problems seem to reduce when on heroin. Heroin addiction seems to be the ‘rehab’ that heroin abusers take to heart. How is heroin abuse rehab?
Heroin Rehab or Addiction
Heroin rehab means to rehabilitate the heroin abuser. Rehabilitate means to bring back to proper or normal condition.
Heroin Addiction
Rehab heroin addiction
Heroin makes a heroin addict feel ‘normal’ or right with the world. Heroin is their ‘rehab’ medicine they have to take 1 to 4 times a day, as prescribed by their dealer, ability to pay or acquire heroin and the degree of their addiction. Heroin addicts have convinced themselves and often everyone around them that they desperately need heroin fixes.
A heroin rehab that uses drugs or methadone is using the same sort of addiction ‘rehab’ as a heroin addict uses. Drug substitution must have been invented by a junkie or drug dependent doctor, scientist or some addict in recovery attempting to justify his or her use.
Heroin ‘Rehab’ That Is Addiction
Heroin abuse is about avoiding consequences, life consequences. Discomfort, anxiety, nervousness, depression, low thoughts are all consequences that a heroin addict is attempting to avoid.
Methadone, Suboxone ‘maintenance’, implants etc are all ways of supporting a heroin addicts drug abuse. But here’s the truth. Many detox and rehab centers are catering to heroin addicts desire to avoid reality by putting heroin rehab / detox clients on methadone or other prescription drugs.
The lesson that heroin rehab and detox needs to teach through ‘living’ is that real life feels better than when you’re addicted from the viewpoint and experience of the addict. An addict is taught through experience that life is better off drugs than on them.
How can a person taking methadone or suboxone for months or years ever have an experience of being clear headed and feeling life directly? Don’t need to guess, they can’t. Prescription drugs like Xanax, paxil or anti-depressants are just as bad as methadone or even worse as these pharmaceuticals are ‘legal’.
An effective heroin detox and rehab program would teach a person that life is better off of drugs like heroin through direct experience and success off of all drugs.
Find A Heroin Rehab That Works
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You may have been put on medications to temporarily solve your drug dependency or addiction problem. If you’re still on meds, pills or back using, even after counseling it’s obvious drugs still aren’t the answer to your problems.
But what is the answer to drug abuse, drug addiction or alcoholism? Is there only one answer? Drug Rehab Advisor specializes in successful rehab programs which end addiction.
Working in the drug rehab / addictions and detox field for 10 years, I’ve discovered that there is always more than one answer. Problems as life threatening that people fall fully into drug dependency or abuse are very major problems.
The right questions should be: How long have you been abusing drugs or alcohol? What happens when you try to stop? How long can you stay clean? Do you have something in your life that you could make more desirable than drugs? Do you know how to make your body function normally without drugs?
People get trapped into using and abusing alcohol and drugs because they really don’t know any better. If they had a better solution to their problems they would do that. But all they’ve got is a bottle, a prescription or some drugs to solve their problems.
Sometimes getting off drugs or alcohol is easy. When the problem is major or life threatening, if the person has had many attempts at detox or rehab and things aren’t working out, you need to take a different approach to the detox and rehab program strategy.
Take a different approach to the type of program or methods you’ve already tried. That means if the rehab or detox programs were a drug substitute or psych based program, try alternative or holistic. If 12 Step is always used, try Cognitive or Learning / behavioral model. If hospitals were used, use homey rehabs with a personal touch.
The idea here is that if the method of rehab or detox hasn’t been working, use a different method.
Here is a detox andrehab success story from a person who simply stopped doing the ‘usual’ and tried a different approach than the ones he’d already tried, 10 times before.
I have been sober for about 3 years now. I have a job, I have a good relationship with my family, and I am happy for the first time in years.
I had been in over 10 different rehabilitation centers, some of which I had gone back to numerous times. My family was in total support of me getting clean but would not support me in my drug addiction which left me homeless for much of the time that I was using. Every treatment center that I went to wanted to free me from drug addiction and deliver me to my family a sober individual. I was put on medications that temporarily solved my problem, but once I was off of them I would find myself back on drugs and unable to deal with my life, some of the medications I was given gave me more problems than I originally had.
I personally was not a fan of someone else telling me what my problem was or how to fix it, but in a different program I got to figure that out for myself.
The above is not an endorsement of any rehab program, as I work with many alternative detox and rehab centers and programs. I found that if people weren’t getting results with what they thought was the ‘right’ way to do detox and rehab, they only made breakthroughs in recovery when they took a different approaches to resolving their dependency issues.
This person’s rehabilitation was dependent on getting off drugs & medications – that may be an approach only some wish to take. This rehab message is: if a rehab method isn’t working despite honest efforts, try a different rehab and detox method.
Iowa drug rehab program that offers alternative non-12 Step approach to rehabilitation. Many rehab programs offer only medical, psycho/social/behavioral or 12 Step rehab models to choose from. An alternative to traditional rehab programs offers an opportunity for people who need and want a rehab that fits their needs better.
Cognitive / Motivational Counseling In Iowa Rehab
Cognitive-behavioral therapy CBT is based on the idea that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors, not external things, like people, situations, and events. The benefit of this fact is that we can change the way we think to feel and act better even if the situation does not change.
CBT uses a questioning method of getting people to look at and inspect their reactions without the therapist evaluating, explaining or invalidating the person’s reactions to the situation. CBT follows the principal that people can discover their own shortcomings for themselves and therefore learn best when they are asked the right questions at the right time.
Feelings are used to uncover underlying conditions and find out what factual things may be occurring or have occurred which now influence the persons reactions. Endlessly speaking about feelings therefore, does not bring about changed conditions and may even worsen them. Homework is given to the client so they can further learn about life conditions and thereby appreciate and understand new conditions in life and make better choices.
Natural / Alternative Rehab Programs
Natural / Alternative Rehab programs treat the real underlying reasons why a person may be suffering from anxiety, depression, loss of passion, or inability to handle emotional pain. While drugs may have a place in treatment, often they do nothing for the underlying causes, and have side effects that can create bigger problems.
Often mood disorders are the result of either poor nutrition, or an inability to metabolize good nutrition — damaged enzymes or mutated genes could be the cause. A person in balance should be able to handle even the gravest of tragedies without the situation becoming a chronic mood disorder.
Natural or holistic rehab would balance this condition with nutrition, exercise, medication tapering, yoga, counseling, acupuncture, supplementation, etc. All of these alternative rehab treatments are done in an Iowa alternative drug rehab program.
Discoveries in ortho-molecular medicine, nutritional therapy and environmental medicine have created massive breakthroughs for people in rehab recovery programs.
These discoveries are newly applied to drug / alcohol detox and rehab programs. Only a few cutting edge detox and rehab programs are utilizing these holistic therapies.
Many clients have now gained incredible recoveries even when prior rehab attempts resulted in only disappointment and ill health.
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An effective drug & alcohol rehab center program would give you and your family that person fully back again. A rehab center would fully and completely detoxify someone so their health was fully restored and they no longer had any drug cravings.
Any depression associated with a drug or alcohol abusing lifestyle would be fully resolved through the rehab process, not medications. A client would leave their old past life style and depression behind and be happy again. Much of the depression caused by drug & alcohol abuse is resolved with intensive holistic detox programs, see Effective Detox Program philosophy.
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The damage created by abusive living results in guilt. Restoration of wrongs done should be part of a drug / alcohol rehab program. Restoring self esteem and personal integrity is an action done while in rehab. Inpatient rehab centers have the task of helping and encouraging clients to fully regain self respect.
Families can insist that integrity processing be fully completed. Courtesy, respect and honesty are expected behaviors of people properly completing rehab.
Therefore a person completing a detox and rehab program would be: without drug or alcohol cravings, healthy, responsible, honest, friendly and in communication, contribute and consider themselves a member of society again. They would be REHABILITATED.
The Rehab Centers I currently work with rehab and detox centers that average 1 to 5 months in length. While medical detox is usually short, days or weeks at the most, rehab is a longer process. I work with detox and rehab centers in the U.S. in the states of Florida, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Manhattan, Colorado, Texas, Nevada, California, Utah, Michigan and Georgia.
In Canada I have work closely with effective detox and rehab centers in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. The drug & alcohol detox & centers I work with in BC and Alberta specialize in one on one consultations and therapies both therapeutic and educational rehab programs are utilized.
I also refer people to a center in the UK, and coordinate with a rehab consultant in London, if you are looking for quality rehab and live in Europe or the Middle East.
What rehabs don’t work
Rehab centers and detox centers are not created equally. Many rehab programs are simply working out of a hospital or riding off of insurance claimants attending their program. These centers usually won’t post success rates. They teach clients that “relapse is part of recovery” as a method of excusing ineffective treatments.
Recovery and Rehabilitation should be synonymous. Sending addicts home before they are fully detoxified and rehabilitated is the cause of most rehab failure. If a person is still ‘recovering’ then they haven’t recovered, have they?
Factually, there are social fellowships which aid and contribute to ones sobriety. These fellowships and organizations are wonderful. But social fellowships are for those who are clean and sober. My point is that rehab programs have a start and a finish. Rehab is complete after recovery is achieved.
Low cost half way house
Therapeutic communities can offer wonderful support to a person recovering from a long lifestyle of addiction. Low cost ½ Way Houses are one way to transition back to responsible living in society.
Some rehab programs expect transition into a ½ Way House after a rehab program. Other rehab centers expect the person to have achieved a returned level of responsibility by the time they complete a rehab program.
Therefore a low or lower cost half way house is intended to either transition a person from rehab to real life, or confirm that a rehab program was effective before moving back into society. People who have no or few work related skills should consider transitional housing as part of a rehab plan.
Phase I: 24/7 intensive withdrawal process, followed by a proprietary Sauna Based, Drug-Free Dis-intoxification Program that rids the body of accumulated drug residuals stored in the body fat, organs, etc. This natural body detox rapidly returns vibrant health back to the individual.
Phase II: Special Educational Therapies designed to gently assist the addicted person back to self-control. Many drug and alcohol abusers are easily ’set off’ by circumstances in their lives. Those triggers are put back into the direct control of the recovering addict. These therapies assist a person to face and handle their environment, others and themselves with comfort and ease.
Phase III: Additional Educational Therapies to rehab self-esteem and cure the need for drugs. Guilt and depression are the two biggest barriers to long-term effective recovery from drug and alcohol abuse. What about the person’s past? Courses, processes and counseling is delivered at this stage of rehabilitation to end guilt and depression from the past. Many rehab students resolve forever the reason they got or stayed involved in drug and alcohol abuse here.
Phase IV: A Follow-Up Program to assist the former addicted person back into society. This drug & alcohol Detox and Rehab Program rehabilitates former drug and alcohol abusers before the person is sent home. This is an important concept. A minimum of 3 months of intense follow up is done to ensure the newly rehabilitated individual is following through on their commitments they made to their families, themselves and society. Sometimes people need to repair past mis-deeds, re-gain trust by demonstrating honor and trustworthiness. Each rehabilitated individual has a unique after-care program which carries them through their success return into society.
This 4 phase detox and rehab process ends addiction in 70% and up to 85% of people participating in rehab. The entire process can take as little as 2 months, but the program averages 4 months for most people. A flat fee is charged for the program, regardless of length. Total fees average $17,000 to $35,000 dollars depending on location.
Contact Drug Rehab Advisor at 1-866-266-6616 for enrollment information and other questions about how to get a loved one onto an effective detox and rehab program.
Family members need objective information about effective rehab centers.
Drug addiction and alcoholism disrupts and torments families as well as ruining the abuser’s life. When a family member truly wants the best recovery program for their loved one, a drug rehab consultant should be contacted.
I find drug rehab that works. That’s why I created a referral site, wrote all these articles and why people contact me when looking for drugand alcohol programs that will end addictions problem; even if a longstanding substance abuse problem and a dozen treatment attempts haven’t solved the problem, yet.
Factually, select rehab options get 65% to 94% success on average. Higher success would be possible but some drug abusers don’t wish to end their habit. By my experience approximately 80% of addicts going to rehab want to end their addiction. But, they simply don’t know how to move on in life and stay clean.
You may have your own blind spots regarding a family member’s addiction. Having an outside and unbiased consultant consider factors you haven’t yet looked at can make a huge difference in selecting a successful program the first time or the tenth time.
Determining the potential success of a detox or rehab candidate is part of a consulting assessment.
Alcohol and drug treatment is most effective in inpatient recovery centers for longer term problems.
Drug rehab should be the process of riding an addict or alcoholic of obsessions and compulsions to abuse drugs. Effective substance abuse treatment programs should return a teen or adult to full control over their lives again, not merely get the person to stop drinking or drugging.
Outpatient Programs
Rehab programs that use counselors, doctors, social workers, meetings etc, while the person continues living at home is effective for people able to stop using drugs and alcohol while processing their lives through recovery.
If a person is ’slipping’ frequently or continue to use, outpatient programs are not appropriate for their situation.
Outpatient programs are generally run through state or city funded health centers, community centers, or private counselors.
Inpatient Drug and Alcohol Rehab
An inpatient program may be located in a private residence, lodge, center, clinic, hospital or retreat.
1. Publicly funded or partially subsidized inpatient rehab is usually run through centers or clinics designed specifically for a rehab program. Some are simply add-ons to a hospital or clinic. These should provide space to exercise, take a walk and also be in a very secure location.
The philosophy of the center should focus on complete rehabilitation, not simply beginning a continuum of care.
2. Private rehab residences, centers or retreats are generally located in pleasant and therapeutic locations that assist recovery. Sometimes exclusive residential rehab centers are required for individuals needing individual attention or privacy.
The methods of rehabilitation used should be consistent with their philosophy. Are medications used at the center? Have they compromised their program philosophy by using mood altering or addictive drugs? Do they expect their clients to recover at the center?
3. Larger drug rehab centers also offer opportunities of a therapeutic community, lots of space and amenities, exercise areas etc, all on the premises. Large rehab centers provide a different experience than those exclusive to a handful of clients.
How many trained counselors are at the center? Do they do security watches? How do they respond to drug or alcohol violations?
Referring clients to rehabs that work is the first priority and commitment made to a client. This may mean a rehab consultant refers substance abusers to treatment in more modest or more expensive, but secure surroundings. It may require they travel far away to get to a safe and suitable location.
Inpatient facilities tend to work best for teens and addicted people who wish to get assistance and resolve a drug problem rapidly and completely.
4. Luxury rehab centers and detox facilities have made an inpatient program more comfortable for substance abuse treatment. The finest effective rehab may require anticipating all of a clients needs. Luxury accommodations and holistic medical care offer the finest in recovery programs. These are not necessarily the most effective, but may provide services beyond the norm. Essentially, people’s problems must be met through the rehab program.
The Purpose of Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation
Sober living is the primary objective of rehab. Insuring successful sobriety requires something more from a rehab. Health, honesty, success and happiness of a person returning to live in society should be the method of assuring long-term recovery.
Therefore finding and locating drug and alcohol rehab centers that use effective programs of recovery, should be the objective of a family member seeking help for a loved one abusing drugs or alcohol.
Rehabilitate means to bring back to proper or a former healthy or good condition. If a person still needs treatment, have they been rehabilitated?
Rehabilitation includes returning social responsibility to substance abusers as well as repairing the physical and mental consequences of drug abuse. Emotionally, people may be a wreck after drugs have ravaged their lives. All these factors should be addressed in a holistic way. That would make up a recovery program worthy of the term rehabilitation.
Drug rehab programs should insist the person in recovery demonstrates they have been rehabilitated before leaving the rehab center. Rehabilitation happens in rehab, and evidence of recovery through ones actions, responsibility and self control is manifested before returning home.
If a rehabilitation programs don’t or won’t clearly relay success rates and their in-patient treatment is 30 days, a person may expect many return visits and still not achieve full recovery.
Relapse doesn’t need to be part of a recovery plan. However, knowledge of slips and how to repair oneself if they occur should be included in a life-long strategy.
