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Facts to Know about Outpatient Treatment for Addictions:
1. Outpatient Detoxification is the first step in developing a foundation for your recovery. Begin treatment by taking good care of your body.
2. Outpatient treatment is just as effective for early and middle stage addiction treatment (those who do not yet have severe medical or legal complications of alcohol and drug abuse and are still working or attending school.
3. Outpatient Womens morning program is ideal for many moms who want sobriety, who are unable to leave their children for 30 days and other women who want their afternoons and evenings free for school or work.
4. Outpatient rehab groups develop the similar cohesion as inpatient treatment, and a sober support system emerges from sharing the common experiences of isolation.
5. Intensive Outpatient treatment spans 70 days on average, allowing you more than double the amount of time to begin to recover from alcohol and/or drug dependence through rehab treatment, meetings, family, relationships and work or school. Adding weekly aftercare for a year provides additional amounts of support for your recovery.
6. Outpatient drug rehab treatment at Lasting Recovery includes traditional addiction psycho-education and wellness programming to help you begin reducing your stress in early recovery from alcohol and drugs.
At the end of outpatient treatment:
---problems seem resolvable. You sit next to other people who are going through the same thing. You realize you don't have to isolate anymore and that you're not alone.
---life is usually easier to manage since your brain neurochemistry is repairing.
---stress levels is down as a result of not using alcohol or drugs and receiving learning how to manage stress more effectively.
---re-connection of the emotional and reward pathways in the brain lead to clearer thinking
---significant reduction in symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Benefit from the experience of an outpatient group for 10 weeks and experience the benefits for yourself and your family, of living life clean and sober.
Judy Saalinger, Ph.D., MFT, CAS
Co-Owner and Clinical Director Labels: Alcohol, c4 Recovery Solutions, Detox outpatient detoxification; suboxone, Drug-Addiction, Recover
Seek help before it's too late. Before the next crisis. If you or some you love is having a problem drinking too much and recognize you have a problem, it is almost a sure thing that there will be even more problems in the future related to your chemical use. Medical problems, family problems and possibly legal problems.
It's a fact: In San Diego Count, on average 2 of our neighbors are killed in alcohol related traffic accidents each week, according to Mothers against Drunk Driving, MADD. San Diego County has the second highest DUI arrests and convictions according to the DUI Arrest Management Systems, in 2005. If you have had one or more DUI arrests, getting effective treatment will be the answer for you.
New and improved research based treatment improves the outcomes of those seeking help. Research shows:
--women stay sober longer if they receive treatment in women only groups
-- medications given for alcohol craving significantly reduce relapses
--motivational and caring treatment approaches with the therapist increases recovery rates
--12 step recovery and an intensive outpatient treatment program doubles the chance of recovery
--cognitive behavioral therapy increases the management of anxiety and depression
--family education is essential to the long term recovery of the entire family
--complete detoxification is essential to effective treatment
Lasting recovery's intensive outpatient treatment is one of many programs in the country that provide these types of services, and one of only a few in San Diego County. If you or your family is seeking treatment, ask about these research based treatment methods. If you are in San Diego county, call us at 858-453-4315. We are here to help you.
Judy Saalinger, Ph.D., MFT, CAS
Labels: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Detox, Recover, Recovery, Recovery Women's Treatment; Co-dependency, Treatment
Throughout San Diego County, in areas of La Jolla, Mission Valley, Pacific Beach, and Coronado, people are struggling with trying to stop drinking, and others have given up, thinking to themselves that they are hopeless and why bother, they are unable to stop and stay stopped. Other men, women and young people continue drinking by telling themselves that their problems with alcohol are not that bad.
In denial, these folks may minimize the consequences of using and blame the family or friends for complaining. Denial of addiction is based on the mistaken belief that the person does not have a problem because they still have a job, a family and do not drink every morning.
Some are still working, others have quit or lost their jobs. Some are homeless, but most are at home through San Diego county, being cared for or enabled (actually leading to more severe progression of the disease), by family or friends who wish the person would stop drinking, and yet do not know how to get them to stop.
Living in Late Stage alcoholism is the image of what most people think of when the words alcoholism is mentioned - drinking from early morning, lost job, abandoned by family, multiple legal offenses and treatment programs without gaining substantial periods of recovery.
There are hundreds of people getting sober each day in San Diego. In the Middle and Late Stages of alcoholism and addictions, they call treatment centers and ask for help. They ask for Outpatient or Inpatient detoxification ; ask their doctors for help, or go online and check out the alcohol treatment programs or alcohol rehabs in their area. They show up at AA meetings.
These folks even tell us they are relieved when they get a DUI, knowing that this will be a chance for them to get help to stop drinking.
Identification of the Lat State of Alcoholism:
---the person drinking thinks that responsibilities interfere with drinking.
---loss of job
---radical deterioration of family relationships
---unreasonable resentments
---loss of will power
---onset of lenthy drunks
---moral deterioration
---urgent need for morning drink
---geographic escape attempted (I won't drink in this new town)
---urgent need for morning drink
---impaired thinking
---loss of family
---successive and lengthy drunks
---unable to initiate action
---obsession with drinking
---all alibis exhausted
If you are reaching out for help give us a call here at Lasting Recovery. If we are unable to help yo and your family with our outpatient detoxification, intensive outpatient alcohol and drug program we will refer you to a program that will work for you. If you are a family member and are unable to encourage your family or friend into treatment, we can recommend an Interventionist that will be of help to your family.
Call us at 858-453-4315.
Do not wait any longer. The stakes are too high.
Judy Saalinger, Ph.D., MFT, CAS Labels: Alcohol, Alcohol-Abuse, Alcoholism, Detox, Recover
I have something to celebrate this month - 32 years free from an opiate addiction.
Given opiates for a pain problem that became chronic, I was hooked for 10 years on codeine. As I write this, I recall how grateful I am to be free of the destructive power opiates had over my thoughts, emotions and quality of life.
Drug addiction to opiates in San Diego County continues to be a growing problem. The first time users are usually young men and women, who like myself, are emotionally sensitive and who find reducing emotional and physical pain with opiates quite intoxicating. The euphoria and increased sense of well-being by using the drugs, draw the user back into the illusion that all their emotional and relationship problems related to fear, anxiety and anger, will magically disappear...forever. We are chemically lulled into sleep, thinking that life is, indeed, very good.
However, young women and men, living in all areas of San Diego, including La Jolla, Del Mar or Encinitas, who use opiates begin to realize after a short time that they want more of the drug (the craving has begun, and it is hoped that taking more will make the drug experience better, just like the first use) only this time the drugs do not bring the same positive effects. Instead they feel drowsiness, disorientation and dulled senses. The motor coordination in these young users is effected, and they may prefer to just lay around. Life starts to become depressing. It is not unusual that people begin to use different drugs and perhaps alcohol to try and get the chemical high through mixing substances.
Judgment about important decisions related to work, school money, relationships or family are impaired. People lose jobs, relationships, money and family. By this time, which could be 3-4 months or a couple of years, the positive effects of the drug are no long present, the negative effects of the opiates are dominating the person's life and living revolves around obtaining the drug to avoid the physical withdrawal symptoms. Withdrawal symptoms include feeling sick, vomiting diarrhea, poor appetite, stomach cramps, dry mouth, restlessness, headache, fainting attacks, stiffness, muscles twitching, fatigue, or tiredness, muscular tension, aches and pains, weakness and insomnia.
Feeling these same withdrawal symptoms for about 6 months, I'm glad I chose to withdraw from the opiates anyway, breaking my dependency on this drug. For 10 years I carried those little white pills in the brown plastic bottle, day and night. I couldn't remember what it felt like without them, and I was willing to give it a try. It had to be better than what I was feeling and the way I was living.
Today, 32 years later, I still know it was the best decision I ever made. I feel great most days and have the opportunity to help others who suffer from addictions.
Our medical director, Michael Markopoulos, MD can help you detox from the opiate/withdrawal wheel with the use of Suboxone. It isn't a long term answer, and it will help you reduce the early symptoms. You don't need to suffer withdrawal for 6 months. After a detox from the opiates you will benefit from entering an outpatient treatment program where you will learn how to stay clean and discover healthy way to meet life's opportunities.
Get the help you need today. Call us at 858-453-4315.
Judy Saalinger, Ph.D., MFT, CAS Labels: Detox, Drug-Abuse, Drug-Addiction, drug-use, Prescription-Drug-Addiction, Recover, suboxone, Treatment, young-opiate-addicts
More and more people who suffer from anxiety or sleeplessness are prescribed medications from their doctors. Some pople find that using these drugs to get high is a dangerous game. Young people are overdosing from using xanax along with opiate medications. We see young people whose have stalled their lives, from Carmel Valley, Del Mar, La Jolla and Encinitas due to the fact that they are suffering from having become dependent on drugs.
These medications are often obtained by young people from drug dealers and older people who tend to go to their physicians. Being unaware that the increasing physical dependence is taking over, these people will take the prescribed 30 days of medications in 2-3 days, leaving them desperate to get more medications. I have spoken with men and women of all ages who were surprised when they found they had taken the entire prescription in a few days, as if they could not get enough. Just like the person who finds that they now cannot stop at just two drinks, the compulsion to drink more or to use more of the drugs overpowers them and their physiological addiction is beginning to take control of their life. Whether it is alcohol or prescription drugs, people are confused and feeling guilty, and desperate, some people will begin to shop for more alcohol or doctors who will fill the prescriptions for the narcotics. Others will go on the internet and order a large supply of drugs which are then delivered within a day or two. Some people who are not addicted will go to Mexico to purchase the drugs from the pharmacies who sell to them without a prescription.
If you find that you are physically dependent on these medications, do not try to detox yourself. Withdrawal from alcohol, valium, librium, xanax and ambien,can cause severe anxiety symptoms, including seizures.
Lasting recovery Outpatient Detoxification offers confidential medically supervised detoxification from alcohol and prescription drugs. Our Medical Director, Michael Markopoulos, MD can help you with early recovery cravings for alcohol including Naltrexone, and Suboxon for opioid dependence.
You do not have to recover alone. Call Lasting Recovery for help with your chemical dependency treatment needs.
Judy Saalinger, Ph.D., MFT, CAS Labels: Addiction, Detox, Drug-Abuse, Drug-Addiction, Prescription-Drug-Addiction, Recover
A-Z of Addiction Recovery: R is for Recover
Recover
Webster's dictionary definition of "Recover:"
- to get back (something lost, etc.)
- to regain health
- to make up for (to recover losses)
- to save oneself (recover from a fall, etc.)
- to reclaim
- to get control of (a fumble, etc.)
- to regain health, balance or control.
- to remain free of alcohol and drug addiction and reclaim your life!
Labels: A-Z of Addiction Recovery, Recover
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