2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
The modern media industry is replete with advertisements: "Drug Addiction Treatment". But is it possible to get rid of this disease for the rest of your life? Unfortunately no. In the traditional sense, treatment is a process, after which you do not need to seek the help of specialists. You can't talk about drug addiction like that. There are no former drug addicts, but there are recovering addicts. People who were able to stop the disease and change their lifestyle. Sustained remission can last a lifetime, but it comes with a daily temperament of sobriety and a hard fight with the drug.
What is an addict's disease?
According to experts from the World Health Organization, drug addiction is a CHRONIC disease that progresses over time and destroys the mental and physical condition of a person. If you look from the point of view of the etymology of the concept of "addiction", in the Greek language it includes the words:
- "narco" - torpor;
- "mania" - madness, passion, attraction.
The drug acts directly on the nervous system, causing a change in the body's reactivity. Drug addiction is formed from the first intake. Especially from modern synthetic substances such as spice and salts. Physical and psychological disorders arise, moral, moral and spiritual degradation of the individual sets in. The disease progresses with the constant administration of the drug, an increase in the dose, withdrawal symptoms develop, with the cessation of substance use. Irreversible psychiatric diseases become severe consequences.
What is the help of modern non-medical social rehabilitation of drug addicts?
Rehabilitation from Latin is translated as recovery. Particular attention is paid to the psychological recovery of the drug addict.
Medication is the first step in drug addiction treatment. It helps restore bodily functions and help reverse the effects of drug use. Thus, physicians can relieve physical dependence. When required, correctors are prescribed to restore the nervous system. But the problem of the disease lies in psychological dependence. Very often doctors-pragmatists "add" drug addicts to psychotropic drugs, forgetting about psychotherapy. Thus, post-drug depression can occur, which inevitably leads to a return to drug use.
The specificity of psychological and social work with drug addicts is based on the correction of the emotional and volitional sphere. One of the reasons for continuing drug use is the memory of the high from the first dose. This psychological phenomenon is called euphoric memory. It provokes the addict to the regular consumption of psychotropic substances, and also forms a constant attraction (craving) for them. Euphoric memory and cravings do not fade over time. The memory of a few minutes of high is stronger than the hellish minutes after. In my practice, the guys tell dreams in which they take drugs. These dreams are very real and emotional for them. Although about two years have passed since the last dose. The craving for the drug remains for the rest of his life. For them, there is nothing in the world that will help them get the same euphoria. But the "high" from the drug leads to death. Then social rehabilitation with psychological support is needed. Only with the help of specialists can one return to the lost meaning of life. For a drug addict, the world is chaotic and an absolute substitution of concepts is turned on. The addict lives in a completely different semantic reality. There is no honesty, compassion, tolerance, love, understanding. They are consumed with drugs and highs. It is the displacement of the drug from the value system and the formation of new value orientations (family, home, work, honesty, impartiality, etc.) that non-medical social rehabilitation is engaged in. This is a long and arduous process. Don't believe an ad that says you get rid of in a week. Better one long rehabilitation and a happy life than a repetition of the nightmare and dire consequences.
Life after rehabilitation
The rehabilitation center gives you the opportunity to look at yourself and the reality of life differently. But this does not end the course of recovery. The big question is: "What to do next?" Qualified rehabilitation centers have a prosthetic treatment program. It includes social adaptation to a sober lifestyle. For the guys, this is a kind of "simulator". If in the rehabilitation center they were under the watchful eye of specialists, then during the post-treatment program they pass a kind of exam. The program is divided into several stages, similar to the stages in rehabilitation.
- adaptation to social life. Here, the guys, with the help of psychologists, solve the problems of socialization. For them, leaving the rehabilitation center is associated with a certain stress. After all, the world around them, and even relatives, do not share their new views. Therefore, many of the graduates do not return to their hometown during the first years of their recovery. This is due to the high likelihood of relapse due to misunderstanding of the new lifestyle.
- joining the community of drug addicts anonymous. Integration period. It is impossible for an addict to recover alone. No one can understand and help like a recovering addict. Someone who has gone the same way and will be able to understand and support. Very often, in the post-rehabilitation period, children form a community in the city where they underwent rehabilitation. With my comrades in the rehabilitation center. This reduces the level of anxiety and brings a certain atmosphere of safety. This is how the therapeutic community operates outside the rehabilitation center. It is very difficult for an independent person to understand why a friend cannot go to a pharmacy or a wine and vodka department of a store. But the one who himself faced the problem of addiction can provide support, and most importantly, save from the danger that has arisen.
- stabilization in social life. The rehabilitation program operates outside the walls of the rehabilitation center. Particular attention is paid to the formation of a realistic life plan. In the formation of goals in a rehabilitation center, many nuances are omitted from the participants. On the way out, the guys meet with life's difficulties. Many are registered with narcology and cannot find work. Others fail to build relationships with relatives. And sometimes, the guys come out with a question of self-determination: “Who am I? And why am I needed in this life?"
All these three stages of post-rehabilitation are helped by social workers and psychologists. In the future, our connection is not broken. A person is accustomed to a social lifestyle. The addict is used to isolation. The disease of an addict can only be overcome with the support of other people. And it is with support, not control. Psychological craving for drugs, as an escape from problems, will always exist. Only in a community of people who have gone through these difficulties themselves can the disease be overcome.
Psychologist at the Vershina-Bryansk Rehabilitation Center
Zoya Aleksandrovna Belousova
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