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Legal highs: Treatment, detox and recovery
Legal highs are dangerous and, for the last nine years, not legal: Either. While they had previously been outside of the law, the Psychoactive Substances Act of 2016 made them illegal. To enable their sale and distribution, suppliers will often market them as plant food, even incense or bath salts! Some can be injected, others…
The Impact of Prescription Drug Abuse and How to Seek Help
Prescription drug addiction treatment can be achieved , with the right professional help and support. While, initially, prescribed with good intentions, certain prescription medications are commonly misused and can lead to addiction: Opioids, benzodiazepines, stimulants and gabapentinoids (pregabalin/gabapentin). Here at Find Me a Rehab, we have experienced addictions clinicians who have spent decades treating clients…
The Dangers of Ketamine Use: What You Need to Know
What is Ketamine? Understanding its complexities is crucial as we look into ketamine addiction treatment options. Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic that has been in use, medically, since 1970. Used by medical doctors and vetinarians, it was widely used in the Vietnam war by American military medical services. Latterly, it has been used for treating…
Cocaine Addiction: Recognising the Signs and Seeking Help
Cocaine addiction treatment may sound scary but it needn't be. For the person dependent on it, Cocaine addiction can be devastating. It has the power to destroy a life especially relationships, finances, employment prospects and even could take your life. Seeking cocaine addiction treatment can help mitigate these effects. Here at Find Me a Rehab,…
What To Expect During Admission To Drug Or Alcohol Rehab
In denial: A term often associated with those caught up in addiction. For those who have taken the powerful step to acknowledge and face up to their problem, reaching out for help is the next step in getting onto a trajectory of recovery and lifelong abstinence. Understanding the admissions process in rehab is crucial for…
How 12 Step Programs Can Support Your Recovery Journey
12 Steps For Addiction Treatment The 12 steps for addiction treatment: Have you heard about it? There are very few people who haven’t heard of the 12 steps, though not all may know what it is about, how it works and how many millions of people, across the world, owe their life to its philosophy…
Understanding Heroin Addiction: Causes, Effects, and Treatment Options
Understanding heroin addiction is not as complicated as you might think. In this blog we will explain the causes, effects and treatment options. Heroin addiction: Causes, signs, treatment. Let's take a closer look. Addiction to heroin is a chronic problem that affects, not just the individual, but their family, friends, co-workers and peers. It can…
The Sinclair Method: A medication-based approach to alcohol use disorder
Naltrexone for alcohol use disorder is not a new phenomena but is seeing a resurgence. Alcoholism is a problem experienced by millions of people across the world, while existing treatment program has helped many overcome this problem, science evolves, and new approaches emerge. One of these is the Sinclair method. As with many medical treatments,…
Exploring SMART Recovery: A modern approach to overcoming addiction
What is SMART? As an alternative to a traditional 12 step program, SMART is centred around the individual using practical tools to overcome addiction and is cemented on the principal that everyone has the power within them to recover. If you need 24 hour addiction help, want free clinician addiction advice to find…
Residential Rehab Vs Home Detox: Which is right for you?
How do I decide? Residential Rehab is always the preferable option. Not everyone needs a detox, but for those who do, it is essential and without it recovery cannot happen. If you look at recovery as building a house, a detox is the solid foundation on which everything else is built upon. Without a firm…
Getting Help For Addiction: Breaking The Stigma
Getting help for addiction: Breaking the Stigma means ending the procrastination and taking the initial steps towards a trajectory of sobriety and abstinence. There is still significant stigma. Call for free clinician drug advice. We can arrange alcohol addiction recovery UK as well as help you find drug addiction rehab UK. Asking for help is…
Dual Diagnosis And Addiction: Overcoming The Challenges
Dual diagnosis and addiction: Both can be overcome. By accepting you are experiencing both is the realization that addiction is not a standalone illness. No one has the aspiration to become a drug addict or an alcoholic. People get depressed, develop anxiety, obsessional ideas, etc., and use drugs and/or alcohol to cope. For others, it…
Recognising The Signs Of Addiction
Recognising the signs of addiction is not an easy as you might think. Even seasoned healthcare professionals have great difficulty on occasions determining who is taking what and blood tests are not always helpful. Forget what you have seen on television and in films. The signs are not always physical but also in the way…
The Stages Of Addiction
If you are thinking "What are the stages of Addiction"? Read on. Let us examine what happens from Experimentation To Recovery. Like anything in life, there are stages to a process.: You are born, you grow old, and you die. Addiction follows stages, but unlike life, the outcome depends on the individual and what they…
What is addiction? Exploring the science of dependency
What is Addiction? Exploring the science of dependency is complicated but knowledge of it can really help addicts to overcome their problems. Just say no! It was good enough for the kids of Grange Hill but didn’t save poor old Zamo. If only it was that simple. Addiction is challenging to recover from because it…