Detox and Rehab Leeds

Are you trying to find Detox and Rehab Leeds? Our Experienced Addictions Clinicians work in Detox and Rehab Centres. Our advice is free, confidential and impartial. With the right information you can make an informed choice.

What Is A Rehab Centre?

Rehab is about recovery from addiction. Most of the staff who work in rehab centres have been in recovery, themselves, for a number of years.

It is not a spa break or a country retreat: It is hard work. Rehab is residential, intense treatment that can save your life.

Addiction is a very serious illness that costs lives when not treated. A rehab centre provides the specialist care that you need.

Addictions clinicians, specialist therapists and support staff as well as catering and housekeeping staff will all ensure you have the right tools, treatment and environment to overcome your addiction.

For those who need a detox, this will be provided after an assessment with the in house addictions clinician. Detox and Rehab Leeds offers safe, registered services.

What Happens In A Rehab Centre?

Rehab is about recovery. Using both group and individual therapy you can recover.

Every rehab centre, the world over, uses a group therapy model. Why? Because it works! Also, individual therapy is incredibly draining.

Trying to have more than one session a week would not be productive. Group therapy, for addiction, has been around for nearly one hundred years.

In a group, whether it is a 12 STEP or SMART based approach (or even eclectic) it really doesn’t matter. What matters is that you get help.

As soon as you are physically able to join in, you will be welcomed by your peers and therapists into the group. Some clients, due to their physical state when they first come into rehab, may need a day or two to stabilise: This is completely normal.

Addiction Is Not A Choice

No one chooses to be in addiction. It is not a career choice or something you wake up one morning and decide to do. It is a symptom of something else.

Sometimes It could be unresolved trauma from childhood, relationship issues, work stress or dependency on medication that was prescribed for you.

When you use drugs/alcohol they suppress painful memories, probably the ones you want to forget. Once you are detoxed, these memories will no longer be suppressed and they will come to the fore.

Therapy will help you to process these thoughts and the emotions that come with them. You will learn how to process these and how to respond to them in a more positive way.

What Else Happens Apart From Detox And Therapy?

Relapse prevention! This is an essential element of recovery.

Through skills workshops, roleplays and individual therapy sessions, you will learn vital skills that will help you navigate situations that may arise when you go home.

Alcohol and drugs are everywhere. You can buy beer and wine in a petrol station and, in most cities in the UK, it can be quicker to have drugs delivered to your house than a pizza. Being equipped with the skills needed to say no is essential.

Relapse happens: Fact. It doesn’t happen to everyone but it doesn’t have to be catastrophic. The more well equipped you are the better the position you will be in.

What About Detox?

When you use alcohol and drugs, just as with prescription medicine and caffeine, certain receptors on the brain are affected. The effects are that chemical channels are either opened up or closed (or partially opened up or partially closed).

When this happens naturally occurring bodily chemicals are either prevented from moving around the body or are released in too great a quantity. After a time the brain becomes used to the presence of these substances on receptors.

If you stop using drugs/alcohol (or reduce too quickly) the brain can not cope with such an immediate change. A state of flux occurs and chemical messaging becomes haywire. It is this that causes withdrawals as the wrong chemicals (or the wrong amounts) are released or withheld.

Isn’t Detox Just About Drinking More Water?

Detox has nothing to do with flushing anything out of your body. Drinking water, organic green tea or a sauna won’t help. They won’t do any harm but only a medication assisted withdrawal will work.

For those who need a detox, medication is prescribed by the in house addictions clinician that mimics the effects of the drugs/alcohol you were using. This is then reduced at a slow and steady pace so as to minimise withdrawal until you are fully detoxed.

A detox is, normally, needed for the following dependency’s:

• Alcohol
• Heroin
• Opiate pain killers
• Benzodiazpeines
• Gabapentin
• Pregabalin

For those dependent on other drugs, such as Cocaine, because they are very short acting drugs, adjunctive medication is given (on an as and when basis) to assist.

Rehab Centre Leeds offers a full range of detox for all substances, alcohols, and addictive behaviours.

Some clients, such as those using GHB, will need a course of benzodiazepines and adjunctive medication, to help them through.

While Hollywood and TV dramas suggest you can lock yourself in a room a detox with a bucket, some water and a toilet roll, the truth is: You can’t.

Withdrawing from alcohol and drugs can be fatal. Even for those on drugs that don’t require a detox, the cravings can be so intense that you will, most likely, succumb to them.

Why Can’t I Detox Myself At Home?

When you experience cravings, outside the safety of a rehab centre, you run a very serious risk of overdose. Not because you want to overdose but because of a lack of tolerance.

When you use drugs and alcohol, you will, in time, need more and more to have the same effect as the amount you used when you first started (tolerance).

On stopping your tolerance drops: Fast. Thus if you succumb to cravings you are likely to use more than you used to simply to reach a state of equilibrium. This is when people overdose.

In a rehab centre you will have the services of an in-house addictions clinician, nurses and trained support staff. There will be professional help: 24/7. How do you think you would cope, on your own, at home, at 2AM when the cravings take hold? This is why rehab works.

Is There Any Aftercare?

Yes. All rehab centres provide a minimum of a years aftercare.

Usually, this is a weekly meeting (in person or by video conferencing: depending on how far away you live). In addition, there will be telephone support.

This takes the form of “check in” when someone will call you on an agreed schedule (once a week to start, then reducing periods) as well as a number to call if you are struggling.

Recovery is all about you. However, not wanting to let others down can be a powerful element in your trajectory.

How Can Find Me a Rehab Help Me in Leeds?

We are addiction clinicians who work in rehabs. As such we can signpost you to the most appropriate (and low cost) centre.

Not every centre caters for all needs. Some, for example, do not provide a detox for heroin. We know the sector so know precisely where you can go.

All our clinicians have access to a weekly updated spreadsheet. This gives them treatment costs, locations and available treatments.

We use an Voice Over the Internet Platform (phone app) which means whomever is free will answer your call.

As such, the clinician you speak to may not work in Leeds. Don’t worry!

They will have all the information you need on local centres and they will be able to give you honest, confidential and impartial guidance on what treatment you need (and what you don’t need!)

Keeping costs down is important. While there are high end centres available, all centres provide essential treatment. Of course, it is up to you where you go but we can assist you to make an informed choice.

What About Confidentiality And Safety?

We are registered with the Information Commissioners Office. Without your expressed permission we can not discuss your enquiry with anyone: Not even your GP.

While we always advise you to involve your GP we understand why some people don’t want to do this. Centres may ask for a medical summary from your surgery. This is a simple procedure that the reception team can assist with.

Modern day NHS GP computer systems allow admin staff to print off a summary with a few keystrokes. They are not permitted to ask what it is for.

As centres are required to be registered with the Care Quality Commission, we only signpost to those that are. However, we strongly recommend that you check the CQC website for yourself before making a commitment. Detox and Rehab Leeds is registered and safe.

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