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Drug Detox
How to make your drug detox successful
Countless medical articles and books have been published on the subject of long-term drug detox. Truth be told, medical professionals and drug addiction specialists alike have been confounded by the abysmal relapse rates associated with most drug therapy programs. While rates for a successful drug detox programs have improved thanks to great technologies and the advent of substitution programs, like buprenorphine therapy, the fact of the matter is that patients who emerge from detox programs often get overwhelmed by cravings and end up back in rehab weeks or months or years later.
Why does drug detox fail 90 percent to 95 percent of the time (according to numerous independent estimates)? One answer might be that traditional methods of detox focus on physical symptoms and ignore psychological elements. Another might be that the current group methodologies for addiction treatment are rooted in a non-scientific philosophy that came into being as the result of activism following the Great Depression. While group meetings have a strong history of encouraging fellowship and mutual education campaigns, they have also dominated the drug detox and rehab environment.
Other, more individualized approaches have statistically demonstrated success by looking at addiction in a more 360 degree way. Instead of focusing purely on detox or purely on group recuperation, these programs canvas a number of possible factors, including nutritional problems, physical ailments, physiological issues, and even genetic problems to create structured albeit independent programs for rehab and wellness.
Thus, if you are exploring rehab for a friend or for yourself, make sure to investigate the why's of addiction as well as the how's.
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