What are drug rehabilitation centres and why is it necessary to get help?
Primary treatment centres (also called rehabs) are residential clinics that treat addiction and alcoholism and create safe spaces to promote total abstinence and healing.
A drug rehab center treats drug or alcohol addictions, as well as behavioral disorders (sex, porn, gambling, shopping).
What happens in drug rehab?
Addiction is a serious problem, and without help, it’s difficult to abstain for any significant period of time.
A person who is dependent on substances or harmful behaviors needs to be taken out of their toxic living space while they abstain. They benefit from being socialized in the company of others with the same addiction problems.
Drug rehabilitation centres provide treatment for drug or alcohol dependency on psychoactive substances, or behaviors (sex or porn addiction, gambling, shopping).
Rehabilitation centres are also referred to as “residential treatment centres” or “Primary care treatment centres”. A free, government rehabilitation centre in Johannesburg is the Life Recovery Centre in Randfontein.
There are many private registered drug rehabilitation centres in Johannesburg, Gauteng.
You will also find excellent private rehabilitation centres in Cape Town, South Africa.
Reach out for help for your addicted loved one as soon as you can, to avoid negative consequences (psychological, legal, financial, social, and physical).
If addiction or alcoholism is not treated, the ends are almost always the following, jails, institutions, and death in no particular order.
Stages of addiction recovery
The majority of addicts and alcoholics who enter drug rehabilitation Centres, begin their recovery with a detox program.
Rehab focuses on examining and changing destructive habits, so that addicts and alcoholics can stop abusing their substances of choice. The body and mind are “reset”, their sleeping patterns return to normal, rehabilitated, and restored.
A personalized drug treatment detox is necessary because no single drug affects addicts and alcoholics the same way. For instance, someone with porn addiction withdrawal has far less physical pain than someone detoxing from substances.
Despite the fact that drug users have similar experiences when withdrawing, their bodies and minds react differently.
It’s essential to appoint a medical doctor to monitor each person’s withdrawal and prescribe any medication that’s required.
Alcoholics are prone to seizures when withdrawing. Benzodiazepines are prescribed to reduce this risk.
Rehabs offer recovering addicts and alcoholics counseling with qualified addiction counselors.
There are group activities, such as workshops, group therapy, written journalling and one on one counseling
Impact of drug addiction on emotional and physical spheres
If we carefully examine the impact of drug addiction on emotional and physical spheres, such as the brain, which is repeatedly flooded with abnormally high quantities of the chemicals dopamine and serotonin.
The brain becomes dependent on the drug induced highs, whilst the body is depleted and cannot naturally maintain the massive quantities of chemicals produced artificially by drug and substance abuse.
Addiction is a serious problem, and without help it’s difficult to abstain for any significant period of time. Getting help for your addicted loved one soonest, to avoid negative consequences (psychological, legal, financial, social and physical). If addiction or alcoholism is not treated, jails, institutions and death in no particular order.
How to get into rehabilitation centres
You can contact me here to get advice on how to get your loved one help by being admitted to the best rehabilitation centres in Johannesburg.
There is never “a right time” to book in for drug or alcohol rehabilitation. If you or someone you love is suffering from addiction or alcoholism, start helping now!
The sooner the better, because without help for alcoholism or addiction the family and the community suffers along with the person who is addicted.
Colleen
