Drug and Alcohol Addiction
Are you or a loved one addicted to drugs or alcohol? Have you tried to quit on your own without long time success?
Is your addiction keeping you from having a successful life with family and work?
Are you ready to make a positive change in your life?
If you are ready, we can help you recover successfully from addictions and dependencies.
You can have a life without addictions
You can have successful relationships again
You can be productive and positive
You Can Have the Life You Desire!
A therapist that is trained in addiction recovery and mental health can help you overcome your addiction, recover,and find long term success.
Drug and alcohol addiction and dependencies are often complex and difficult to treat. Most addicts have either underlying mental health issues or some unresolved trauma (abuse, grief, PTSD) and use drugs and alcohol to self medicate. People who misuse drugs and alcohol usually do it as a way of coping with experiences, memories, or trauma that emotionally overwhelm them. Over time it becomes a habit that is difficult to change on their own. Even if they had developed proper coping skills, people who misuse rely on the immediate gratification of the drugs and alcohol rather than face the issues that feed their addiction. True Recovery cannot occur until these underlying conditions are treated. A skilled therapist can help someone dependent on drugs or alcohol overcome their addiction and help them find the path of achieving the life they truly desire.
Other chemicals may lead to physical sickness, personality changes (temporary), loss of appetite, insomnia, nausea, mood swingsand other disturbances when quitting is attempted.
Drugs and alcohol affect your body and your brain, these chemical substances make quitting difficult from a medical viewpoint. Quitting cold turkey can not only be difficult but can be dangerous depending on the substance. Withdraw symptoms, such as from opiates, can be temporarily debilitating, but are not fatal.
Drugs and alcohol affect your body and your brain, these chemical substances make quitting difficult from a medical viewpoint. Quitting cold turkey can not only be difficult but can be dangerous depending on the substance. Withdraw symptoms, such as from opiates, can be temporarily debilitating, but are not fatal.
Drugs and alcohol affect your body and your brain, these chemical substances make quitting difficult from a medical viewpoint. Quitting cold turkey can not only be difficult but can be dangerous depending on the substance. Withdraw symptoms, such as from opiates, can be temporarily debilitating, but are not fatal.
Drugs and alcohol affect your body and your brain, these chemical substances make quitting difficult from a medical viewpoint. Quitting cold turkey can not only be difficult but can be dangerous depending on the substance. Withdraw symptoms, such as from opiates, can be temporarily debilitating, but are not fatal.
Fatal overdose is possible with many commonly abused drugs. Marijuana – which can lead to diminished lung functioning, memory problems, mood and cognition impairment, and other health issues (while also being a potentially legitimate medicine in the eyes of mainstream medicine, if not the Drug Enforcement Agency) is the most prominent exception.
Drugs and alcohol can temporarily relieve the symptoms and feelings associated with psychological illness and distress, but in the long term will almost surely worsen any emotional or psychological condition. Chronic self-medication may be a sign that therapy warranted to address an underlying condition or difficulty. People sometimes fear seeking help for drug addiction. Be advised that privacy and confidentiality in substance abuse treatment is mandated not only by professional ethical guidelines and, usually, state law (like all mental health treatment) but also by special federal laws.
One of the most important, difficult, and complex areas of mental health is the field of addiction. Research indicates that the vast majority of people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol have an underlying mental health condition or significant emotional/psychological difficulty, and about half of people with mental health diagnoses will face challenges with drugs or alcohol at some point in their life, usually as a form of self-medication. Addiction is difficult to treat, and there is a good deal of controversy about the causes and best approaches to treatment of drug and alcohol addiction.
Those who choose to be consistent in their therapy
Do you relate to any of the following?
Anxiety and/or depression is getting in the way of my happiness
I am looking for a new perspective
I am addicted to drugs, food, alcohol, bad relationships, etc. and I want to end the addiction
I desire to have a successful relationship with my family, spouse, children
I want to learn how to be happy in life
I am feeling lost and all alone
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