Friday, February 24, 2017

Stopping Substance Abuse In Your Home Through A Low-Cost Drug Education Program

By Kimberly Ross


Loving parents, grandparents, and other family members, friends: The road to drug addiction is fraught with unhappiness, failure, lack of motivation, damage to body and mind, and even to a life of crime, violence, personal misery, and irresponsibility. And believe this when you read it: Your child is walking the fine line every day between a happy, fun-filled, responsible life and a life of substance-abuse and total misery. This article takes you through a low-cost drug education program.

You think your child is safe at school or at a social gathering while you are working hard to bring home the paycheck. Would that were true, we'd have no problems. But that is not the case. Consider these sample facts about the damaging effects of drug abuse:

Tips To Choose the Right Program. An addiction treatment center can be opted based on its rehab programs, staff expertise, credentials, cost, and effectiveness of the treatment. Opting to get treated as an in-patient or an outpatient depends on the severity, stage of the disease, and one's budget. Age and gender specific programs are also available. Loving and highly skilled professionals can help the addicts to focus and fight their own relapse signs and symptoms.

How the Programs Help. The rehab programs emphasize that recovery is a continuous process. Small group therapy, individual counseling, and dual diagnosis treatment along with 12-step recovery will successfully help to achieve long-term abstinence from substance and alcohol addiction. The patients become free from addictive tendencies, self-sabotage, psychological illness, and dysfunctional behaviors.

Main Aspects of the Program. Effective drug rehab programs focus on the multiple needs of the addict. Holistic treatment and family involvement form integral parts of the therapy. The rehab care involves the use of individual and group therapy, education, psychotherapy, relapse prevention, men's and women's issues, anger and depression management along with the 12-step recovery program. Educating a patient about the pros and cons of drug addiction, alcoholism and the overall benefits of recovery is essential.

Typically, Dual diagnosis practice aims at addicts having psychiatric illness. This condition impairs the ability of the person to maintain everyday living. The therapists educate such people to manage their diagnosis and daily medication management. Incorporation of necessary life skills in the patient raises his/her self-confidence, self-esteem and instills a sense of purpose and well-being.

Unfortunately, most parents or grandparents "are fiddling while Rome burns." They're acting as though all is well and that substance abuse is not part of the lives of their children. Then one day, they wake up to the reality that their child has been caught taking drugs. By the time parents realize what is happening, it is often too late.

So it's important to arm yourself with the proper drug facts by having them handy whenever they are needed as reference material.




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