Alcohol Rehab and Drug Rehab - Cut from the Same Cloth?
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Drug evaluating, drug screening – more diligence about alcohol rehab strategies, centers and initiatives and programs, assisting with withdrawal, support through life in this on-going battle, making the change last etc. – BUT overall alcohol and drug rehab combat/battle plans have a very serious flaw.
While we've been screening, admitting, intervening, rehabilitating diligently for illicit and other over-the-counter drugs and substance addictions, a single substance seems to have escaped our closer scrutiny for the most part, and escapes the same in-depth notice and reaction given, for instance, to drug rehabilitation.
This substance that causes twice the problems of all illegal drugs combined is …alcohol.
Surprised? Alcohol is the most abused substance in the USA today and affects seemingly normal men and women from every walk of life. Its cost to society is staggering and for the most part we think of “rehabilitation” as the typical meeting of AA groups somewhere in a university, community center, local church or house.
Other alcohol treatment options include self-medication for chemical and blood sugar imbalances and depression. Treating potential underlying causes of the dependency seems effective with some, but not all.
Other rehab alternatives include holistic therapy that includes a focus on the whole being, including diet, nutrition and exercise, reducing sugar intake, and lowering the risk an need to self-medicate through alcohol. Individual counseling also is a helpful strategy for alcohol rehabilitation.
At the core of any substance abuse/addiction is often a deep emotional pain that may be difficult to share with a group of relative strangers. Alcohol rehabilitation and alcohol and drug rehabilitation both require commitment, willingness to address change, help and be helped – intensive, consistent, and persistent.
Structured and holistic therapy can sometimes really allow a patient to open up more and attempt to heal deep emotional problems more effectively.
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