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What Steps Take Place At A Drug Rehab Center For Addiction Recovery

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 A drug rehabilitation center is a place that you go to begin the process of overcoming drug and alcohol addiction. Many people refer to drug rehab as the place where they go to get clean and sober. There's quite a bit involved in drug rehab, and the experience and the process will be different for each individual. That's because there's no single treatment program or plan that works for everyone. Evaluation and Assessment When you go into drug rehab, there is the evaluation and assessment phase, when all kinds of information are taken about your drug and alcohol history, your medical history, family background, including any family history of drug or alcohol abuse or addiction. There is also a physical examination. That's to correlate your stated drug use with the actual chemical substances in your body. This enables professional therapists to design a drug treatment program to best meet your needs. You sign the necessary papers, and the process of quitting drugs ...

Being Ditched Is Not A Reason For You To Relapse And You Can Prevent It

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 "Ditched is no reason to relapse." What a raw deal you got; is that what you have been telling yourself? You went through addiction treatment for drug or alcohol abuse only to come home and find out that your spouse or partner dumped you? Well, that is a pretty rough situation, it is true. No one likes to be ditched. But it is no reason to throw your addiction recovery away. Relapse occurrence is highly likely, and any reason can trigger its onset. Thus, you need to have a relapse prevention plan ready when you return home. Let's face it. You have gone through one heck of a lot of pain and suffering just to get to this point. Treatment, any way you look at it, is no piece of cake. It does not matter if your drug of choice was a couple of pints of whiskey or a non-stop coke or crank binge or any combination of alcohol and drugs. Once you have been down the road of no return and climbed back out of that miserable pit, you sure do not want to revisit anytime soon. We s...