Welcome to Drug and Alcohol Treatment
| ||
Drug Addiction Facilities Article
This is a selection made from among articles on Drug Addiction Facilities. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for future reading, click here.
from:
Dual Diagnosis Drug Rehab
By Doris Moller
People have heard of people that have a mental illness and people have heard of people who are addicted to drugs. The question that is posed here is whether people have heard of addicts that also have mental illnesses. This is actually a very common occurrence and there are dual diagnosis drug rehab centers to accommodate these groups of addicts. This form of drug rehab that focuses on the addiction and the mental illness combined as one form of therapy with the end goal that can help the addict to live a clean and drug-free life.
Some rehab centers will treat the mental cause itself that may have led to the drug addiction; this could be a traumatic childhood, or addicted parents, but this does not mean that the center has made a clinical diagnosis that the individual addict has a mental disorder, such as depression or bipolar disorder. There is a difference in something that has led to a drug addiction and in something that is caused by the drug addiction. Mental illnesses may not even be apparent until the drug rehab is happening or the mental illness can cause the drug addiction but the affects of the drugs can be worse because of the illness.
It is a very complicated program, diagnosing and treating a dual diagnosis, but, recovery from drug addiction and control of the mental illness is possible through a dual diagnosis rehab program. This type of drug rehab helps an addict with a mental illness. A dual diagnosis will do the following for an addict with a mental illness:
· Will help the patient to see how drugs and/or alcohol act in their life. This should be achieved under a confidential discussion with out the fear of getting into trouble.
· Will help the patient to see how drugs and mental illnesses affect each other.
· May provide the patient with opportunities to work, a job that will help the rehab process.
· Will help the patient to make and achieve personal goals.
· Will provide information pertaining to the patients mental illness or illnesses and how to cope with them. Also will help the patient to live as normal a life as possible with their dual diagnosis.
· Give the patient the tools to recover from addiction and live with a mental disorder.
· Teach the patient social, communication, and personal skills
· If medication is needed for the mental disorder, teach him about the medicine and what affects that it will have on them.
· May involve the family so that they can also learn about the duel diagnosis.
The list above is just a few of the things a person with a dual diagnosis will learn about and go through during their drug rehab. It is important for the patient to understand about drug addiction and mental disorders if there is ever any hope of rehabilitation. The most important thing to remember is that the people who have addictions and mental illnesses.
Copyright 2007 www.infodrugrehab.com
Doris Moller is the author and operator of http://www.infodrugrehab.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Doris_Moller
http://EzineArticles.com/?Dual-Diagnosis-Drug-Rehab&id=774798
Drug Addiction Facilities Specific links
Watch Funny Videos!
- Click here to see funny videos, pictures, jokes, commercials, and more funny stuff from Comedy.com.
-- http://www.comedy.com/
Free tech talk and gadget review video!
- Watch GeekBrief with Cali Lewis right now!
-- http://www.geekbrief.mevio.com/
Watch Free Videos At Mevio!
- Tons of Free Videos, Only At Mevio.com
-- http://www.mevio.com/
Blinkx Video Search
- World's largest video search engine. Over 26 million hours of video.
-- http://www.blinkx.com/
Wainy Days
- David Wain, co-creator of The State, Wet Hot American Summer, Stella and The Ten, now brings you WAINY DAYS, a weekly web series chronicling one man's quest for love and romance in the Big City. Catch the latest episodes at Atom.com
-- http://www.atom.com/
Drug Addiction Facilities News
Pat Pankratz column: - Herald Times Reporter
I hope you've been checking out the series in this newspaper called "Web of Addiction," about drug use and abuse in Manitowoc County. Reporter Cindy Hodgson's series began last Sunday and ended Thursday. If you missed it, you can catch it online at ...
Read more...Codeine the silent addiction - Independent
Share The term 'heroin addiction' conjures up images of the down and out, malnourished and skeletal, banging up drugs in a backdrop of squalor with a dirty syringe full of god knows what; a tatty piece of cord-turned-tourniquet, clenched between the ...
Read more...Web of Addiction: 'I prayed to die' - Herald Times Reporter
Editor's note: This installment in the Herald Times Reporter series on drug abuse and addiction in Manitowoc County features a former Manitowoc radio personality who struggled with methadone addiction. MANITOWOC — You might know him as Tim Strews ...
Read more...PM takes action to enforce law on drug abuse prevention - Viet Name News
HCM CITY — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has assigned different functions in drug abuse prevention and control to the ministries of Health, Defence and Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs. The delegation of responsibilities is contained in ...
Read more...Luxury to Ease Your Way. - Transworld News
The only meaningful addiction recovery is long-term addiction recovery. That should be obvious. It isn’t good enough to stay sober for six or twelve or eighteen months. Real sobriety lasts forever. Unfortunately, many of Southern California’s ...
Read more...Columbus opens Day Reporting Center as alternative for drug offenders - Ledger-Enquirer
Columbus recently joined a handful of Georgia communities that have embraced alternative correctional and drug treatment facilities called Day Reporting Centers. Day Reporting Centers are nonresident, drug and mental health treatment and restitution ...
Read more...Luxury & Work Go Together in Treatment - Transworld News
Every rehab facility is unique. Sometimes that uniqueness is a good thing. Sometimes it isn’t. On the road to recovery, that sort of distinction can make all the difference in the world. The most successful drug rehab patients are those who get ...
Read more...One door closes, but New Life finds a window - Record
STOCKTON - When Gospel Center Rescue Mission surrendered its state-issued license to operate the New Life program for women recently, it shrunk by almost 25 percent the number of women-only, live-in drug and alcohol treatment program spaces open in ...
Read more...Helen Clark still smiles - Scoop
While we can rejoice in the change of Government that has occurred in NZ we should all realise that defeated Prime Minister Helen Clark will still be wearing a big smile after reading the supply and confidence agreements signed yesterday by ACT, UF ...
Read more...Expert: Down Economy Drives Some To Drugs - KPHO
PHOENIX -- Money troubles are leading more people down the painful road of addiction, according to one Valley service for recovering addicts. Lee Pioske, head of "Crossroads" -- a non-profit organization that has several facilities in the Phoenix ...
Read more...