Drug and Alcohol Rehab Kingswood

Here at Addiction Advocates, we are an expert rehab referral service that can help you to receive the perfect rehab treatment programme for your personal needs. Find out more about how our team can help by ringing 0800 012 6088.

Here at Addiction Advocates, we can refer you to a drug and alcohol rehab at locations across the UK. Find out more about rehab here.

Detoxification

Often the first treatment you will receive in a private drug and alcohol rehab centre will be a detox.

The detoxification process is designed to naturally rid your body of all drugs and alcohol in your system over a ten-day period. However, the exact amount of time may change from person to person depending on the types of drugs or alcohol you are addicted to.

The detox is famously the worst part of staying at a drug and alcohol rehab in the Kingswood area due to withdrawal symptoms. These withdrawal symptoms can be very dangerous if experienced alone and are the main reason why it is recommended that you never attempt to detox alone.

There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding the detox, thanks to tv and movies depicting it as the main treatment for addiction. It is often portrayed as something you can do at home by locking yourself in a room for a couple of days to sweat out the drugs and alcohol.

While at-home detoxes are available, they should only ever be done through a drug and alcohol rehab centre where you can be monitored remotely to ensure the withdrawal symptoms don’t prove too much for your body to handle.

Ideally, you would complete the detoxification process in a drug and alcohol rehab centre. There you would receive 24-hour support and monitoring from a team of fully qualified medical professionals that can make sure you are safe.

They can monitor your progress and even provide you with medication to relive your withdrawal symptoms should they prove too much for your body to handle.

It is important that you are prepared for the withdrawal symptoms you may experience as part of the detox. While the more dangerous symptoms such as dehydration, hallucinations or seizure are prevented by medical intervention, there are some you will still experience.

They include:

• Headache
• Measure
• Vomiting
• Mood swings
• Diarrhoea
• Aggression
• Irritability
• Light sensitivity
• Chills
• Hot flashes
• Hives
• Goosebumps

The detoxification process often begins your time at the drug and alcohol rehab centre as it gives you a fresh start. After it, you won’t have to worry about experiencing withdrawals again. Instead, you can concentrate on the rest of your treatments without the distraction of cravings.

Rehabilitation

When you have an addiction, the best place for you is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre.

At a drug and alcohol rehab centre in the Kingswood area, you have access to round-the-clock care by teams of fully qualified medical professionals that can help you make real progress with your journey to long-term recovery.

Rehabilitation offers you the chance the take-back control of your life with the help of people who really understand how difficult it can be to overcome addiction. They have experience helping people from all walks of life and can help you too.

It is important that you remember that rehabilitation is not a cure. It is best if you don’t think of addiction as an illness that you can get over like the flu but rather as a chronic condition that you can learn how to manage through rehabilitation.

And like any chronic condition, you will likely live with it for the rest of your life in one form or another.

That being said, it won’t always feel this difficult to control. You can get to the point in your life where managing your addiction has become second nature to you, and you don’t need to feel worried about it anymore.

Rehabilitation, at its core, is designed to teach you how to manage yourself in the long run. It gives you all the tools and tricks you need to take control of your addiction so that one day you are no long-struggling through your day-to-day life, but instead, you are living it.

Addiction Treatments

The exact treatment you need will be decided during your admission screening for a local drug and alcohol rehab centre in the Kingswood area. But there are some treatment options you can decide on for what works best for you and your lifestyle.

For example, you can decide between a residential stay where you can spend around 28 days completely focused on your journey to long-term recovery. Or you could decide on outpatient treatment where you can plan your treatments around your life and existing commitments.

Whatever option you choose, there are standard treatments that will still be available to you no matter what.

The main treatment you will be offered will be therapy.

Therapy is a key treatment because addiction isn’t something that just happens overnight. It sometimes takes years of substance abuse to fully develop, and it can have a drastic impact on a person’s mental health.

It has also been found that for many people, the reason behind their substance abuse is mental health problems. It is not uncommon for people living with an undiagnosed mental illness such as anxiety or depression to use drugs or alcohol to self-medicate and regulate their own moods.

There are different therapy options available during your treatments at the drug and alcohol rehab centre. The most common ones are:

• Holistic/art therapy
• Group therapy
• Cognitive behavioural therapy
• Motivational interviewing

Each treatment is designed to help you in a different way so that when you leave the drug and alcohol rehab centre, you can continue to manage your addiction and continue your progress towards long-term recovery.

Aftercare

Aftercare services are offered by drug and alcohol rehab centres so that you can continue to make progress even after you leave the facility.

These services can often come in the form of a relapse prevention plan. This plan is designed specifically for you and contains tools and strategies developed during your stay at the drug and alcohol rehab centre to help you avoid triggers for your cravings.

Aftercare services may also include a referral for further therapy sessions or for a local support group local to Kingswood. Often these groups will be able to help you along your journey and offer support when you are experiencing cravings and need help.

Admissions

For more information, please head over to our admissions page. Alternatively, you can give us a call at 0800 012 6088 or text HELP To 83222.

A member of our team will be able to answer your questions and start the process of getting you into a drug and alcohol rehab centre in the Kingswood area that is perfect for you.