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About Alcohol Addiction Recovery

If you or someone you know has a problem with alcohol then you should look into the possibility of getting into recovery. Alcohol addiction has a lot of negatives associated with it, not the least of which is a lifespan that is generally reduced by about 20 percent on average, so anyone who is hooked on drinking should look into quitting just for this simple fact alone. The quality of your life stands to improve by leaps and bounds if you can find a way to sober up.

If you want to quit drinking then you have to change your entire life from the inside out. For most people, success in sobriety comes as a direct result of their actions in trying to actively create a new life for themselves. This means that if you want to stay sober then you have to do a lot more than just not drink. You have to get active in recovery and reach out and help other people and set some goals in your life and find some real purpose. If you do these things then it will give you the drive and the motivation to remain sober even when times get tough.

We all have our personal challenges and we will all have our ups and downs so you need to find coping mechanisms and healthy outlets so that you can avoid relapse over the long term. Alcoholism is a very patient disease and so you need an entire life strategy that can carry you through your entire life experience if you want to stay sober in the long run.

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Addiction and Recovery – Social and Environmental Triggers For Cravings Worksheet

Associations between particular feelings, people, places, and events becomes intertwined with the alcoholic or addicts drinking and drugging behavior. When alcoholics and addicts find their way to recovery, the old associations between the drinking and drugging and the old feeling, people, places, and events persist, often triggering cravings to drink or use. When these cues trigger drinking or using memories and perhaps euphoric recall, unless you take action to prevent cravings and possible relapse, you remain extremely vulnerable to losing your recovery. These cues are ever present, but relapse can be averted.

It is important to avoid the external triggers that are your most dangerous and that are within your power to avoid. Many of these would be the obvious ones such as hanging out with old drinking/using friends, or going to bars or liquor stores. Triggers that can’t be avoided can be neutralized. To be ready and able to neutralize triggers that arise, you need to be able to anticipate and identify them, then have a plan of action on how you will deal with them without drinking/using.

Below are areas that serve as triggers, that can set up cravings to return to drinking or using. Use this work sheet to help identify your probable risks.

Social and Environmental Triggers for Cravings Worksheet 

People

Who are the people you used to drink or use drugs with? Make a list.  

Make a list of other people that could serve as a trigger for relapse. It could be extended family members, spouse, girlfriend, your children, boss, coworkers, neighbors and any others.

Places

Where did you used to drink or use drugs?

What are the places that could trigger cravings or euphoric recall? Make a list of the places that might remind you of drinking/using or serve as trigger. Examples might include: bars, clubs, golf courses, football games and tailgating, school, work, certain streets, certain parts of town, concerts, pool halls, certain country roads, lakes, backyards.  

Events

What kinds of events did you routinely participate in while drinking or using drugs?  

What are some of the routine events that you might participate in now that could trigger cravings? Make a list of possible trigger-provoking events. Examples might include going to the lake and fishing, mowing the lawn, fund raising events, going gambling, attending music festivals, and others.

Celebrations

What are some of the celebrations or special events that you might participate in that could serve as a trigger for relapse? Make a list. Examples might include: weddings, graduation, birthdays, vacation, holidays (with or without extended family members).

Other stressful events or activities

 Identify other stressful events or activities that could serve as a trigger. Examples might include such things as deaths of family members, divorce, separation, money problems, getting paid, getting a raise, calls from creditors, paying bills, group meetings, long work hours, unemployment, having a baby, retiring, home alone, vacation, going by an ATM machine, home alone, finding paraphernalia, a long “to do” list.  

Relationship events

What kinds of relationship events were associated with your drinking or drug use?

Identify relationship events that could serve as a trigger. Examples might include meeting new people, going out on a date, hanging out with friends, after an argument, before sex, after sex, viewing pornography, family visits, having a baby, separation, divorce, marriage.

Time

When did you usually drink or use?

Identify specific times of day, week, month or year that may serve as a trigger for relapse. Examples might be Monday (Monday night football), Sunday (gearing up to go back to work), anniversary date or month of traumatic events, after work, before work, trying to get to sleep, waking in the night, and any other times that are significant.

Making a plan.

Looking back over your lists above, identify actions that you can take to reduce the threat to your recovery.  Which events can you avoid?

Which events or situations can you escape from if you feel vulnerable? How can you empower yourself to escape?

Ex:  Practice being assertive with leaving a risky situation.   Use cognitive therapy to challenge unrealistic thinking that might keep you from leaving when you need to.   Make a plan on how you could escape. Example: Drive yourself, walk out, call a cab, have an AA call list and have someone come get you.  

What can you do to change how you think or feel when you find yourself in an inescapable position that is triggering a desire to use?

Ex: Use thought stopping techniques to manage cravings when they occur. Use the phone. Call your sponsor. Call your counselor or someone in AA/NA. Engage someone who is supportive of your recovery in a conversation. Remind yourself that cravings are temporary and that they will go away if you do not use. Remember that cravings are a normal part of recovery and that they do not doom you to failure. Remind yourself that you have the choice whether you act on your cravings. Think of a craving as a contest between you and your disease. Who will win?    

If you or someone you love is in early recovery or trying to establish abstinence, arm yourself with all the education that you need to accomplish it. This is one in a series of articles about preventing relapse in early recovery. My website has a number of other valuable resources for recovering addicts/alcoholics and their families. There is a “Link” page that could serve as an effective starting place for research on most addiction and mental health topics. A “Recommended Readings” page can help point you in the right direction for many topics. I make myself available to answer educational kinds of questions in my “Ask Peggy” column. There are a number of articles roughly categorized currently as “Marriage Articles”, “Sexual Addiction”, “Addiction and Mental Health”, “Family Dynamics of Addiction”.

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Addiction and Recovery – Maintaining Your Recovery Motivation – Or You Will Relapse?

People often find their way to recovery in the midst of a crisis. Someone standing at the crossroads of recovery, may have been arrested for DUI, may have been fired, or may have received a scary report from the doctor. He may have heard the bottom line demand from his spouse– “Get help or we are getting a divorce.” Or, the alcoholic/addict may in fact, have a moment of clarity and really be able to see that he does have a problem and that help and abstinence are called for. The alcoholic/addict feels afraid. He feels ashamed.  He feels angry at others or at himself for being in this position in the first place.   

Fear, coercion or crisis helps him find his way into recovery. Fear is a fairly good short term motivator, but not so good in the long run. Once the fear subsides and the crisis is over, it is very easy to lose your motivation and momentum. At the point where the cycle of addiction is interrupted by failing to take the next drink, dose, or joint, there is a lot of tension, anxiety, and mindfulness of where you are in the process. Detox or withdrawal may occur, with physical and/or emotional symptoms being very consciously experienced.

When you get to feeling better physically and emotionally after detoxing, it is easy to lose your momentum. Your focus on recovery can dissolve. Some of the problems that once motivated your recovery might be resolved now. Because you have quit drinking or using, your spouse and kids are once again speaking to you and are in the process of forgiving you. You may have even won back some trust. Everything seems to be going well.  

Under these circumstances it is quite easy for you to take your eyes off the target and lose your focus on recovery. Erroneously, you may believe that your abstinence is not so fragile now.  Feeling better, you may think you have it “whipped”. 

Without actively focusing on your continuing abstinence and recovery, your behavior can begin to drift away from the newly instituted behavioral changes that you have made. You run the risk of returning to old thinking, old feelings, and then ultimately old behavior.  The reason why this would happen is that you are not consciously taking steps to continue on a path of recovery. This path involves many changes in your behavior and in your life style. Without making conscious choices in regard to how each decision affects your new recovery life or your old addiction life, you are unconsciously choosing your old life. Choosing recovery is not like jump starting your damaged car battery where once you get it started, it recharges itself as run it. You have to continuously work a program of recovery. Without doing so, your efforts will be short-lived. 

You will quit going to counseling. You will quit going to meetings. You will have stopped calling your recovery support people. Your defenses will go back up and you may take exception to the feedback of significant others who tell you that you are acting like you used to before recovery.

 

You won’t be able to see that you are on the road to relapse. You won’t be able to understand why they are concerned. You won’t be able to identify the behavioral changes that scare them because you will be back in denial. Being around old drinking/using environments and friends don’t scare you. You can’t understand why it would scare your significant others. After all, you told them that you are not going to relapse. You have learned your lesson. What more do they want? 

After awhile, you will begin to think that you have your drinking or using under control now.  When you think of addiction as a thing of the past, that you now have it under control, you will begin to entertain the notion that you can now drink or use without negative consequences. If any of this sounds like your recent experience, you are in big trouble. You are in the relapse process and unless you do something now, you will relapse–and soon.

Addiction recovery is a lifelong process, just as recovery from all chronic diseases are. To empower yourself and your addicted loved one, gain as many tools and resources as you can. My website has a number of individual and family dynamics of addiction and recovery. There are Recommended Readings, an “Ask Peggy” column, a Links page with additional resources, and a newsletter that will alert you to new educational/informational opportunity releases. To answer a survey about what you would like to know more about, or to purchase my ebook, “Understanding Cross Addiction to Prevent Relapse” go to http://www.peggyferguson.com/ServicesProvided.en.html

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Drug Rehab Programs – Staying Sober After Addiction Treatment Recovery

When it comes to drug rehab programs one of the major goals that they will stress is that their job is to keep a client in the program until they are medically cleared to leave. This is mainly so that they can keep them in the program long enough to help them begin the process of addiction recovery. There are many drug rehab programs that have begun to treat more than just the addiction and have started to also treat the underlying issues also known as comorbidities as well. Many rehab centers have started doing this because the underlying issues can be some of the hardest obstacles to get past in order to help a patient or client actually begin addiction recovery.

For example – When a patient is involved in a one on one therapy sessions, a group session, or a meeting for a 12 step program and they happen to have an anxiety attack or their ADD kicks in, then they cannot concentrate on what they are supposed to be learning in the session. This is completely blocking them from getting the treatment they need plus they will not be able to get to the recovery stage if the anxiety attacks are not addressed first.

Since many clients of drug rehab programs suffer from ADHD, ADD, anxiety, headaches, depression, and insomnia, many centers for rehab have began to use neurotherapy as a part of their process to deal with these illnesses. It has been proven that neurotherapy can reduce stress, headaches, and anxiety so that the patients have a better chance at recovery from their addiction.

It is not easy to become sober when you have been addicted to a drug or many drugs for many years. It is a very stressful task and it is something that will take time, effort, and support. There are many new methods of treatment that have been discovered and are being used to help patients cope with the addiction they are fighting and have proven that more recovering drug addicts are able to stick with the 12 step program well after they have made it into the addiction recovery stage.

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Using the Problems Checklist to Guide Your Living Skills Development in Addiction Recovery

One of the main things that I teach newly recovering alcoholics/addicts to do, is to identify the roles that chemicals play in their lives. This is especially important since the chemical has occupied so many crucial roles or functions and that removing it from a person’s life leaves big, gaping holes in their behavioral repetoire. When you identify the roles previously played by the chemical, you then identify possible healthy alternatives to replace the roles with. Early on, it is usually simple things like meetings, prayer, meditation, exercise, calling people for help, etc. Its pretty difficult to learn sophisticated living skills when you are hanging on by your fingernails. A little later in recovery, we are still working on replacing the roles with healthy alternatives, but we are focusing more on developinig more indepth living skills, and working to solve the most pressing of problems.

Often, by the time that someone finds his way to recovery, he has focused so much on getting the next drug, using it, and getting over it, that they don’t have a full grasp of the disarray that his life is truly in. The bills may be stacked up and unpaid. There may be impending court dates. Extended family members may not be speaking to him. He may be unemployed or underemployed. He may lack frustration tolerance, stress managment, feelings expression skills, and inability to communicate and problem solve with others. The following problems list can help the recovering person begin to repair the damage caused in his life by addiction. To use this checklist, identify which problems you have, rank them from most pressing to least pressing, taking into account the items as short term and long term goals.

The Problems Checklist

Check the problems on this list that you have currently. Identify whether you look at these items as short term or long term goals. Rank the ones you identified in terms of most pressing to least pressing, (i.e. #1, #2, #3).

Check Rank

____ ____ Housing, or appropriate place to live
____ ____ Medical or dental problems or need for checkups
____ ____ Regaining custody of children or finding Appropriate childcare
____ ____ Legal and court problems
____ ____ Relationship issues
____ ____ Social network problems (i.e. drug using friends/acquaintences)
____ ____ Feeling management skills
____ ____ Education issues such as going back to school, GED, additional training, etc.
____ ____ Psychololgical issues like anxiety, depression, mental confusion, mood swings, etc.
____ ____ Lack of structure and time management skills
____ ____ Lack of stress management skills
____ ____ Impatience, lack of frustration tolerance, demand for immediate gratification
____ ____ Lack of self-esteem, self-confidence, or positive identity
____ ____ Shame and guilt about hurting family or need to make amends
____ ____ Poor communication skills and/or poor conflict management skills
____ ____ Other obsessive compulsive behaviors
____ ____ Alienation, not feeling like you fit in, loneliness, isolation
____ ____ Lack of motivation or Procrastination
____ ____ Reliable Transportation
____ ____ Financial concerns or unpaid bills
____ ____ Job training or employment

There are more recovery tools on my website for your use. There are a number of articles and worksheets on individual and family dynamics of addiction and recovery, Recommended Readings, an “Ask Peggy” column, a Links page with additional resources, and a newsletter that will alert you to new educational/informational opportunity releases. To purchase my ebook, “Understanding Cross Addiction to Prevent Relapse” go to http://www.peggyferguson.com/ServicesProvided.en.html

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Recovery Tips For Overcoming Addiction

Here are a couple of tips for anyone who is struggling with addiction and trying to find recovery in their life.

First of all, it is recommended that you surrender fully to the idea that you have a disease and that your addiction is not going to get any better while you are fighting against it directly. In other words, you have to let go of the idea that you can possibly control your drug or alcohol use or cut down and get things back under control. This idea will keep you trapped in a cycle of addiction, when the real solution is for you to surrender to the fact that you cannot successfully use drugs at all. The first tip, therefore, is to surrender.

After you have made the decision to change your life, next it is recommended that you ask for help. This is important because drug addicts and alcoholics have already proven to themselves over and over again that they cannot defeat addiction on their own. We need help in order to recover, and so it is imperative that the addict seek outside help. Peer support and professional treatment are both particularly useful in this case.

Another tip for recovery is that once you are clean and sober, then you should embrace a holistic approach to your recovery. This means that you should branch out in your recovery efforts to include things such as nutrition, exercise, emotional stability, networking with peers in recovery, and a variety of other approaches as well.

Following these tips is going to give you the best chance at long term success.

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Marijuana Addiction Recovery – Marijuana Addiction Help

Marijuana is a highly-addicting drug that causes psychoactive effects on the brain. As soon as it enters the brain, it causes the user to feel high for about one to three hours. After the euphoria passes, the user will feel sleepy or depressed, or even feel anxious, panicky, or paranoid. Once a user takes this drug into his system for a continuous time, he may develop marijuana addiction. Once addiction, stopping the use of this drug will cause withdrawal symptoms to occur and marijuana addiction recovery may be difficult.

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Before we discuss the symptoms of marijuana withdrawal, let us first enumerate the symptoms of marijuana addiction. To start with, we have loss of short-term memory; learning difficulties; increased heart rate; impaired attention and judgment; and impaired coordination, balance, and reaction time. We also have hallucinations and delusions; disorientation; chronic cough and increased risk for lung infections; and increased risk for cancer. As you can see, marijuana addiction may affect nearly all of our body systems.

Now, what are the symptoms of marijuana withdrawal? Included in the list are irritability, anxiety, physical tension, difficulty sleeping, loss of appetite or anorexia, increased aggression, mood swings, stomach pain, restlessness, anger, headache, nausea, paranoia, and strange dreams. These unpleasant symptoms will endure with some intensity for several days before they subside in a gradual manner. During this time, the cravings for marijuana are strongest and the risk of relapse is greatest.

Indeed, marijuana is one of the most difficult drugs to give up. Successfully battling marijuana withdrawal is highly influenced by the user’s commitment and determination, the encouragement of his support systems, and his inner will to quit the vice.

It has also been said that the way to achieve marijuana addiction recovery is to create a new life where it is easier to not use. This means that you should remove or stay away from all the factors that brought you to your addiction so that it won’t catch up with you again in the end.

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Addiction Recovery – Preparing For an Alcohol Or Drug Intervention

When family members are gearing up for an intervention to get their loved one into alcohol and/or drug rehab, they tend to be understandably nervous about it. Alcoholics and addicts are not exactly waiting around, biding their time in joyful anticipation of an intervention. They will be angry. There will be resistance. Family members do not have to be reactive to their anger and can stay on task with an intervention if well prepared.

In considering an intervention, you should decide who you want to participate. Ask yourself these questions:
Who has influence on the addict?
Who loves them?
Who does the addict love?
Who does the addict respect?
What the addict most fear the loss of?
Who would be the weak link in doing an intervention?

When considering who will participate in an intervention, you want to make sure that you only invite people who can be on the same page as the other participants. You don’t want someone present in the intervention that will sabotage your efforts. So, it is appropriate to figure out who, on your list, presents themselves as the weakest links. Anyone who would not be able to tell the addict about the negative effects on his/her own life that are associated with the addict’s drinking/using, without waffling, apologizing, or taking it all back under pressure–would be a weak link. An intervention is not a popularity contest. Don’t worry about whether someone will have their feelings hurt because they were not invited. It is not about them. You have a goal. Who can help you achieve that goal?

Do some brainstorming about anticipating some of the objections that your loved one will have about going to treatment at this time. Figure out how to problem solve around those roadblocks before you get to the intervention. Some examples might be that they can’t leave work at this time, that there is no one to care for the kids, that they have no money for treatment, etc.

Remember that an intervention is about caring enough about someone to try to help save his/her life. It is not about punishment. It is not about getting even. It is not about making them straighten up and fly right. It is about getting them the help that they need to not only be able to choose recovery, but to regroup, learn the necessary skills for recovery, and to thrive in his/her life.

If you do not plan to have a professional interventionist present, a person should be designated to be the leader. This person will be responsible for starting off the intervention, by telling the addicted person why they are all there and setting the stage for the intervention participants to read their lists. They should have a script written beforehand or a speech rehearsed. You can use a speech like this:

“We are here because we care about you and know that something has to be done about your drinking/drug use. We all have something that we want to say to you, so please just listen and let us each tell you what we need to say. There will be time for you to make your comments, remarks, and responses after we are finished. Please just listen for now. We are not leaving until we are finished.”

You know your significant other and have a better idea about what would be an appropriate speech to allow the intervention to begin. You should anticipate that s/he will want to bolt before you get started. Address it in your speech (if appropriate).

Your leader should be someone who can stay on target, not take the bait to be derailed or distracted by the interruptions of the addict. This person will be responsible for keeping everyone on task and making sure that the intervention is conducted with respect for the suffering person’s dignity. The leader should remind the addict as needed that whatever s/he is saying may be true, but there will be time to talk about it when everyone is finished.

As each person reads their prepared list, they can make a brief statement about what the afflicted person means to them and that they care about them, that the intervention and the list they are going to read is done with love and concern.

The list should involve examples of the drinking/drugging behavior that has had a negative impact on your life.

Examples:
Hurt feelings, financial irresponsibility, time and energy spent, self-esteem damage to them or you, fear of job loss (theirs or yours), physical, emotional abuse, safety issues, mental health consequences (i.e., damage from constant worry).

Make simple statements like these:
“When you come home drunk in the middle of the night, I feel scared, hurt, and angry.”
“When you lost your last job because of drinking, I felt frustration, desparate, and hopeless.”
“When you flunked out of college again this semester, I felt angry.”
“When you rage at me, I feel afraid, hurt, and angry.”
“When you ______________, I feel/felt ___________.”

At the end of your list, write out what you are not willing to tolerate in your life. List your bottom line. A bottom line is a boundary that you know that you can keep. Examples:

“If you do not go to inpatient treatment now, I am not willing to continue to live with you.”
“If you do not go to inpatient treatment and stay there until they say you are ready to come home, you cannot come home.”
“If you do not go to inpatient treatment and get the help that you need to stay clean and sober, I am not willing to pay for your car, cell phone, rent, college tuition, etc.”

Don’t say it if you don’t mean it. That makes it a threat instead of a bottom line and threats do not work. They make things worse.

During the intervention, do not argue with the addicted person. Don’t defend you position or your perception or beliefs. Just state it. Don’t over explain it. Don’t respond to their questioning, nit-picking, derailing, or other diversionary attempts. Stay on target. Keep using a “back on task” statement as needed, like “OK, but we can address that when we are finished. Please just listen for now.”

Keep going back to your list. At the end of the list, or at the end of all the lists, each person should state what you want him/her to do. “We want your to go to inpatient treatment. We want you to go today.” If you make the “go to treatment statement” after everyone has finished their list, then go back around the room with bottom lines.

Chances are pretty good that your loved one will try to bargain about where s/he goes to treatment, preferring to go to a psychiatrist, a counselor, an outpatient program, or AA/NA. You probably have a pretty good idea of whether these other options are feasible for the level of the your loved one’s problem. If not, consult with a professional about a different levels of care and your loved one’s addiction. If you believe that inpatient is the appropriate level of care, have a list ready for why you want him/her to go to inpatient treatment. It could involve some of these items:

1. It is the most effective treatment for acute needs.
2. S/he can make the most progress over the shortest amount of time.
3. S/he has said that s/he would quit before, has tried, and has not stayed quit.
4. S/he needs help with detox.
5. S/he needs help with other issues like anger, depression, anxiety, that can be treated at the same time in an environment where his/her whole attention is focused on doing just that.

Tell them that a bed is already reserved at a specific treatment center. If you have two reserved, give him/her a choice. Let him/her know that s/he is expected today, that his/her bags are packed and that they are leaving from here to go to treatment. Tell your significant other that you will be calling and writing letters and offering your support while they are in treatment. They will be fearful about going. Let them know that you love them.

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Yoga For Recovery

Do you yoga? Do you yoga beyond the mat? Do you realize that yoga is a gateway to connect you with your heart’s desire and life purpose?

Being in recovery from drugs, alcohol and eating disorders, I am very familiar with being disconnected from my body and rooted in shame and fear and all the feelings that made me feel powerless and out of control. I knew how to feel bad and yoga taught me how to feel better and to create radiance. Perhaps what the world needs now is a few more people walking around with open hearts.

Until we come inside and practice deep breathing, being in recovery can be a painful experience. If you are looking around for what might be wrong, it is not possible that you are breathing deep. Yoga helps you to reclaim your life by breathing through the anxiety, the fear of being out of control, and brings you back inside, where all is well and life is taking place one breath at a time.

Yoga is grounding. Yoga is rooted in compassion and fulfills a mission that feels larger than one’s self-pity, story, or limitations. Yoga teaches you to breathe deeply through the pain, to process the emotions and to get you into action, to releace and let go and out of your own way. Yoga helps you to cultivate inner peace, to go within to harness the flow of radiant well-being, and to feel grounded in your body.

If you are struggling with an addiction, or in some phase of recovery, you may be familiar with the sensation of resistance or sabotaging. Do you think you were breathing when you chose to go against your body, or when you allow the thoughts to come in that tell you there is something wrong, do you think your heart is truly open and available then? Yoga clears those thoughts, the sacred practice of yoga asanas are a roadmap to clear away the cobwebs, to loosen the internal knots and to create space for positive development.

Waller McInnes is a life coach, writer, yoga and meditation instructor and founder of Create Radiance–offering coaching, customized meditations, classes, workshops and guidance to awaken to your life and shine. Her services and products are designed to relax the Body, release the Mind and restore the Soul. Visit http://www.createradiance.com for more information and her blog for inspiring ways to follow your inner vision.

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Rehab Programs For Drug Addiction – Staying Clean After Recovery

When it comes to drug rehab programs one of the major goals that they will stress is that their job is to keep a client in the program until they are medically cleared to leave. This is mainly so that the drug rehab center can keep the client in the program long enough to help them begin the process of addiction recovery. There are many drug rehab programs that have begun to treat more than just the addiction and have started to also treat the underlying issues or comorbidities as well. Many rehab centers have started doing this because the underlying issues can be some of the hardest obstacles to get past in order to help a patient or client actually begin addiction recovery.

For example – If a patient is trying to sit through a 12 step meeting, an individual session, or even a group session and they are suffering from panic attacks on a regular basis, then they cannot concentrate on what they are supposed to be learning in the session. This is completely keeping them from getting the treatment they need and they will not be able to get to the recovery stage if the panic attacks are not first addressed.

Since many clients of drug rehab programs suffer from ADHD, ADD, anxiety, headaches, depression, and insomnia, many centers for rehab have began to use neurotherapy as a part of their process to deal with these illnesses. It has been proven that neurotherapy can reduce anxiety and stress so that the patients have a better chance at recovery from their addiction.

It is not easy to become sober when you have been addicted to a drug or many drugs for many years. It is a very stressful task and it is something that will take effort, time, and support. There are many new methods of treatment that have been discovered and are being used to help patients cope with the addiction they are fighting and have proven that more recovering drug addicts are able to stay with the Addiction Treatment Recovery well after they have made it into the recovery stage.

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