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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Drug Rehab aka Drug Rehabilitation is the process of medical and/or psychotherapeutic treatment. This treatment is use to battle drugs such as, alcohol, prescription drugs and other hard drugs, such as cocaine, heroine or amphetmines.

What drug rehab can provide you

The main purpose of drug rehab is to stop the specific drugs abuse, this in turn will help prevent psychological, legal, financial, social, and physical consequences that can be caused, especially by extreme drug abuse.

Drug rehab will usually focus on two areas of drug abuse, which are physical and psychological dependency.

Physical dependency involves a detoxification process this will help to cope with withdrawal symptoms that are experience with out the regular use of a drug. When regular use of a drug (legal drug or illegal) employed this will make the brain adapt to the drug that means that more of the drug is usually needed to get the desired effect. (or in, street terms "getting high!") This is how a physical tolerance of a drug can occur, with drugs like Heroine, cocaine, nicotine, amphetamines or alcohol etc. Because of the dependancy on the drug a detox can take weeks or months to return to normal.

Psycological dependency is tackled in drug rehab by trying to teach the user how they can do things with out drugs in their system. One of the methods taught in particular is that patients should not associate them selves with friends that are taking drugs.

Other programs for drug rehab.

Twelve step programs are a form or drug rehab that encourage people not only to stop taking alcohol and drugs but also to examine and change habits related to there drug addiction. Many other programs teach recovery as a permanent process, not something to fall back in to. In the case of legal drugs like alcohol it is recommended that complete abstension is need not moderation -this approach seeks to prevent relapse.

Various types of drug rehab programs also offer help such as residential treatment (in-patient), out-patient, local support groups, extended care centres, and sober houses.

Latest drug rehab treatments

Certain opioid medications such as methadon and recently discovered buprenorphine are now being used and show good results in the treatment of dependence on other opioids such as heroin,morphine or oxycodone. Methadone and buprenorphine are for maintenance used with an intent of stabilizing an abnormal opioid system and used for long durations of time though both may be used to withdraw patients from narcotics over short term periods as well.

Conclusion

Most treatment is based primarily on counselling. Recent findings have shown that those with addiction often have chemical imbalances that make the recovery process more difficult. Often, these imbalances may be helped through improved diet, nutrition and changing to a healthy lifestyle.