Prescription Drug Treatment
PRESCRIPTION DRUG TREATMENT
What is prescription drug addiction? Prescription drug addiction involves people building a dependence on prescription pharmaceutical medications. In most cases, prescription drug misuse occurs due to a voluntary pursuit of the euphoric feeling that some medications provide people.
A lot of people seek the effects of these drugs, to treat existing pain or sickness they are experiencing. But some people may unknowingly be setting themselves up to walk down the dark path of drug addiction by misusing these drugs through taking higher doses than what’s recommended.
Consistently taking the drug over a long period of time or increasing dosage often creates a tolerance for the effects and the substance’s presence in a person’s system. A tolerance often minimizes the effects of the drug and reduces the euphoric feeling from taking it at lower doses, requiring a larger amount to achieve the same high. When a tolerance is built, resisting taking the drug becomes more and more difficult for people. The dependence on the drug is built through increasing dosage and the body’s central nervous system getting used to the drug’s presence and the help it provides the brain while performing certain functions.
Once addiction sets in, misuse becomes compulsive and difficult to overcome. Additionally, addiction to prescription drugs can cause severe long-term consequences, including physical injury and mental illness while also affecting personal and professional relationships. Fortunately, there is a way for people to remove addiction from their lives and overcome prescription drug misuse. This positive resolution is often achieved through our rehabilitation treatment program.
Prescription drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation programs combine counselling, a supportive environment, and services of qualified prescription drug treatment services providers to help one rise above the basic desire to abuse drugs.
Our prescription drug treatment and rehabilitation program is dependent on specific individual needs and the type of drug abused. Treatment options are diverse but most specialists use behavioral and medical treatments with an option for either outpatient or inpatient programs. In situations where one cannot go through the process alone, mainly because the level of dependence is overwhelmingly high – group treatment is availed.
We offer a wide range of treatment for prescription drug addiction. From inpatient t or outpatient prescription drug treatment program to individualized or group therapy.
Discharge planning is also a very important aspect that should be factored in. the length of the rehab programme is subject to the kind of therapy that a patient chooses. For individual therapy, one may choose to carry out the programme until they have fully recovered. This may be difficult for group therapy since patients recover differently. Mostly, group therapies are guided by a common curriculum after which the whole team is discharged.
If you notice yourself or a loved one routinely taking prescription drugs, this is a sign of a substance use disorder. Many people suffer from this illness, especially with prescription drugs. Whether you or a loved one built a dependence from following a doctor’s prescription or through misuse, help is always available. We understand how dangerous some prescription medications can be and our staff acquired the skills and knowledge of how to treat addiction to these life-threatening substances.