Drug addiction affects the mind as much as the body. On drugs a person builds their own reality, one in which everything suits them — which is why pleading from the family almost never works, and why the time it takes is working against the family.
Very often it is not the person with the addiction who comes to us, but their relatives — worn out by years of asking, threatening and trying to keep control. And by then time has almost always been lost: time in which trained specialists could have changed everything.
Drugs are not hard to get hold of today, and teenagers often try them for the new sensation, treating it as a one-off. But drug addiction is almost impossible to keep in check: a person can become seriously dependent the very first time.
Someone with a drug addiction will deny the problem to the last and believe they can stop whenever they choose. That is why they cannot simply be forced into a residential programme, and why treatment becomes more difficult. If this is your situation, here is what to do, in order:
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We gather information about the person, their state of health and any co-occurring conditions. Tests are only done with the person's consent, and they matter for everything that follows.
Clearing toxic substances from the body and preparing for medical treatment. Physical health recovers, and it becomes possible to move on to the main stage.
Once withdrawal has passed, the body has recovered and the person can think clearly again, an individually chosen course begins: psychotherapy, moral support and social adaptation.
At the same time we teach relatives how to behave so that they do not, without meaning to, push the person back into using. Without this stage the result falls apart at home within a few weeks.
Easing the physical state at home is sometimes possible; stopping the illness almost never is. At home everything stays as it was: the same surroundings, the same contacts and the same thinking that brought the person back to using every time.
Age is decided case by case over the phone: a teenager and someone with twenty years of use need different programmes and different timescales.
Not for a consultation. For the programme itself, which examinations are needed is decided after the assessment, and some of them can be done at the centre.
That is not a reason for us to turn anyone away. It is common among people with a drug addiction and needs separate attention during treatment — which is exactly why assessment comes first.
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