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Can I find Effective Drug Rehab in Colorado?

The simple answer is YES, but "Buyer Beware". Living in Colorado has many advantages, one of which is the progressive nature with which many of the Colorado communities are confronting alcohol and drug addiction. Colorado has some of the original drug prevention programs developed by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention as demonstration projects. Boulder, Summit, and Alamosa counties are still very involved in alcohol and drug prevention.

However, when it comes to addiction to alcohol or drugs, communities need effective drug rehab or alcohol treatment programs and not that Colorado is lagging behind many other states, but there are still very poor outcome stats for most of the addiction treatment centers in Colorado. However, there are some addiction treatment programs that routinely get 70%+ outcomes from their graduates. These rehab centers are so confident in their cllinical skills and total rehab regime, that they actually guarantee their results. This is pretty much unheard of in the addiction treatment industry, however, it should be the rule rather than the exception.

There are so many factors that can make addiction treatment fail, that it takes a very comprehensive rehab program to be successful and this is only seen in long term treatment, 90 days or more. Short term treatment, the convention 28 day programs have some benefit, but their outcomes for handling addiction are only in the range of 3-8%. Needless to say that if you have to go through having an alcohol intervention, drug intervention or hiring a professional interventionist to get someone into alcohol or drug treatment, it is essential that you get them into a program that is going to profoundly change their addictive behaviors.

Once you have found an effective interventionist, or have consulted with Colorado Drug Rehab (877-888-4802) to learn how to do a family intervention, you have to be immediately ready with an available bed at a addiction treatment facility that you can count on. This rehab must have effective detox methods or you will lose the addict or alcoholic before the rehabilitation process has begun.

There is a differentiation between withdrawal and detox. Withdrawals is the process that the body goes through after one stops taking their addictive drug or alcohol. This process can take about one to two weeks and may sometimes need medical support. Once the person is no longer going through the physiological abstinence syndrome of withdrawals, they still have a toxic body where the metobolites of the drugs and alcohol have been stored during their uncontrollable use. Effective programs will cleanse the fat tissue of these toxins in a thorough detox procedure.

Colorado has addction rehab services to meet many speical population needs, such as addiction rehab programs for the hearing impaired, addiction treatment for women only, alcohol and drug rehab for women with children, where the children will join them mothers in treatment, treatment programs for those with physical disabilities or challenges. There are also rehab programs that are termed: dual diagnosis treatment programs. Dual diagnosis referrs to the fact that a person my have a mental health diagnosis, such as schizophrenia, and also have a substance abuse addiction problem.

NOTE OF CAUSION REGARDING DUAL DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT CENTERS:

Colorado Drug Rehab gets calls daily from loved ones and those addicted to alcohol and drugs, stating that they need a dual diagnosis treatment program. When they are questioned about the mental health problem, about 90% of the time they don't have a true mental health problem, but have the symptoms of one. Alcohol and drug addiction causes a chemical imbalance by polluting one's body with any number of chemicals, and every addict or alcoholic has a life imbalance by trying to deal with their survival while not being able to get all of the data from life or remembering the rules. This leads to frustrated feelings that can express themselves as depression, anxiety, even manic depression characteristics. It is extremely important that these feeling do not get confused with having a chronic mental health condition. Dual Diagnosis programs emphasize the mental health problems more than the addiction issues and psychiatist invariably give psyciatric medications to patients in these dual diagnosis treatment centers.

A good alcohol and addiction treatment center will handle these emotional problems. Acutally, when an addict or alcoholic is freed from their compulsive addiction, most of these emotional issue will resolve as the person begins to be successful with life again. Failing will make anyone depressed and alcoholics and drug addicts have a long history of disppointments and doubts as to whether they will ever be able to handle life like "stright" people.

If you or a loved one is being told that you need a dual diagnosis treatment center, call Colorado Drug Rehab and let our licensed and certified counselors help you with a more indepth alcohol and drug assessment and evaluation. There are many treatment centers, drug rehab programs, and alcohol rehab programs that need to fill their beds and they may tell you that you are appropriate for their program, but chosing the wrong modality of treatment can be the main reason that alcohol and drug treatment fail.

Colorado has so many different types of alcohol and drug rehab facilities that the consumer can be very confused as to what treatment is right for them. There are some methods to discern which rehab center is best for you.

How does taking drugs or drinking lead to addiction?

Medical Definiation and Explanation of Addiction:

Medically speaking, addiction is a neurobiological based disorder, wth social and psychological influences, characterized by a patter nof maladaptive behaviors which include:

• Compulsive or escalating use

• Cravings and Preoccupation with the drug

• Continued use despite obvious harm

• Repeated loss of control over use

Medically speaking, tolerance and physical dependence are comonly confused with addiction. Physiological dependence is the result of regular drug taking behaviors, and is reflected in the development of an abstinence syndrome when abrupt cessation happens, or an antagonist is administered.

Tolerance is the loss of drug effect over time, coming from continued alcohol or drug taking, which causes a need to incrase the dose over time to maintain the initial effects of the drug or alcohol.

Addiction is chemcial dependence; a physiological, psychological and behavioral problem. Repeated loss of control over one's use means that at any time a chemically dependent person starts nigesting the substance of choice, the person cannot reliably predict where it will stop.

Continued use despite harm, means that the addicted person continues to use the substance in spite of persistent or recurrent harmful or negative consequences (physical or psychological) caused or exacerbated by the substance use.

Medical definations are good to restate the obvious, and since we needed a clear definition, here it is, but anyone needing help shouldn't worry as to where they fall in the continum of differentiation of terms.

If you are hurting from taking alcohol and drugs, call our professional counselors.

The Process

Everyone is familiar with warnings about drug use and addiction dangers, but in spite of all of the information on television and in the class rooms, the truth about the drug addiction is many times lost in the attempts to create fear around taking drugs. Colorado Drug Rehab has been providing alcohol and drug prevention and education since the 1980's and finds that adolescents and young adults respond best to the facts, or the total truth about alcohol and other drugs. It is important that anyone that is contemplating drug rehab needs to have a general understanding about addiction so that they can decide which drug rehab approach makes the most sense. If you find drug rehab centers in Colorado that share your understanding of addiction, you have found a program that will better meet your expectations.

When drugs are introduced into the body, the body responds to this danger as it would to any poison. Generally speaking, all drugs are alien to the body and create the same physiological effects as introducing a poison into the body.  Since they are not a food source, the body reacts to drugs by attacking the substances and doing all it can to remove it from the blood stream. 

Immediately after taking the drugs, adrenalin is pumped into the system to increase the activities of all of the organs that are meant to eliminate these substances; the lungs, liver and kidneys in particular.  In this attempt, the person will also begin to perspire in an attempt to remove the "poison" through the skin. If the ingestion of drugs continues and the blood levels of the drugs continues to increase, the body then reverses its actions and will slow down all of its functions in an attempt to keep these poisons from reaching the brain.  At this time, the cleansing organs are still working on getting the drugs out of the body and, since this process isn't as effective as needed, and since most drugs are fat soluble, the body pushes these substances into the dormant fat tissue where it will stay temporarily, or until the person does other actions that cause the metabolism of this fat. 

This process lowers the levels of drugs in the blood stream and gives the body ability to retrieve and metabolize the drugs at a latter time.  Persons that use drugs regularly or daily will become saturated with these substances in their fat tissue and if they try to stop using, the body continues to cleanse itself by retrieving these stored drugs which causes drug effected feeling long after a person has quit taking them.  This is the reason behind many addiction relapses.  Just when the recovering person is doing well and not taking drugs, he begins to start exercising in an attempt to restore his physical strength.  However, to his amazement and disappointment, he is defeated by minute amounts of the stored drugs re-entering the blood stream and causing him to experience the familiar drug affected behavior, causing him to relapse back to his drugs of choice.  It is this phenomenon that has been the basis behind the idea that drug addiction is a chronic and progressive disease.  

Besides drugs being poisonous to the body, the effects they have on the personality and character of the person change lives profoundly and could be considered even more dangerous than the physiological consequences.

First of all, one’s personal moral code is violated when they take something into their bodies that they know is dangerous. Continually sabotaging ones best interest by ongoing drug use, knowing that they are doing something dangerous also changes their ability to choose between right and wrong.  Continual violation of one’s morals will cause a lowering of self-esteem, which leads to a lowering of one’s self-expectations and goals and, if this process continues, it will lead one on a downward spiral, which will make the use of drugs a necessity to continue escaping their better wisdom and not confronting this wrong action. 

Soon the chronic user cannot face themselves and the things that they have done to themselves and other.  Everyone is familiar with the minor and major crimes caused by those on drugs, but it is hard for most of us to realize how difficult it is to reverse these inner personal changes once a person has been living a drug-using life style for a prolonged period of time.   All drugs are taken to relieve pain and discomfort, so when a person decides to change his life and live without drugs, he is continually craving a drug that will make this transition less painful, and, more often than not, the person fails in their attempt to stay drug free.

This cycle becomes even more difficult when the drug user is young or as been using since his youth and hasn't yet developed a comfortable and predictable decision making process.  Therefore, the real danger of drugs is their ability to hijack lives, at shockingly early ages, leaving a person to face a lifetime which is much more difficult than it would have ever been without these circumstances.  If left unchecked, drugs will destroy the potential of our youth and our society. 

Once a decision has been made to stop ones drug use, the user or his family are faced with finding an effective solution to this problem. With so many treatment programs marketing with false hopes and promises, the vulnerable public usually is faced with accepting that there may not be a cure to this problem.

Alcohol and drug treatment is a relatively new and developing rehabilitation field with many treatment programs that hold on to archaic and ineffective treatment measures merely because it was what the counselor was taught or has learned over the years. When faced with the inevitable facts that their treatment isn't effective, many practitioners change their ideas about the severity of addiction rather than explore other treatment methods that are more effective. Over the years, many programs profess to the idea that you can't expect someone to be relapse free since, (their words and justification): "addiction is a disease of relapse". "Once and addict always an addict." Many programs tell their graduates that they will see them back in treatment in the near future because they have come to believe that there isn't a treatment that is any better than what their programs deliver.

After-care and relapse prevention are important components of a continum of care for alcoholism or drug addiction, but effective programs should be confident that their graduates have enough wherewithal to handle their addiction and succeed in life's endeavors before they are graduated from the rehabiliatation center.

For this reason and others, the best programs do not but a time limitation on the course of alcohol addiction or drug addiction treatment. It takes as long as it takes. There are no two alcoholics or addicts that are the same in most characteristics, so you cannot expect everyone to have their bodies cleansed of alcohol and drugs at the same pace or the time that it takes to confront one's emotional issue will very as well. Look for addiction treatment centers that are open ended on their length of stay and look for alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers that guarantee their outcomes. If you only looked for these two criteria, you would, more than likely, find a good rehab program. Call our office and we will help you with that search.

It has become very difficult to convince the public that there is real help and that there is hope. The total reason for this web site is to help addicts and families raise their awareness about addiction and its treatment so that real help can be had and families can look forward to lives free of the turmoil and pain of addiction.

If you are looking for a treatment program for a loved one whose potentials are not being fulfilled, it is imperative to investigate the program’s ability to rid the body of the toxic effects of drug use and repair the character damage through a process of helping the person to confront their “crimes” and to find personal forgiveness.  Without these components, the chances of staying off of drugs are very slim and ones daily existence is so impaired that the use of drugs is a rational choice over the unhandled pain of past drug use. One can't live a fulfilling life if they are constanting thinking about or craving drugs.

Colorado Drug Rehab is a free service that will help you find a drug rehab for any alcohol or drug addiction problem you or a loved one may be having. It is easy to confuse the different terms used in this field, describing the different types of drug rehab centers, drug rehabilitation centers, and substance abuse treatment programs. For the problem that you are addressing, should you be looking for an Outpatient, In-patient, Residential Treatment Center, Long term or Short term treatment and what modality of treatment is the most effective and what are the cost related to these forms of treatment or rehab.

Call Colorado Drug Rehab at 1-877-44-1137 and we will discuss your individual situation.