Cocaine Addiction Treatment
Free advice, from an experienced addictions clinician in the field on all aspects of cocaine addiction treatment, detox, withdrawal, rehab, admission, therapy, counselling and outpatients.
Cocaine Addiction Treatment is not something to be scared of.
If Cocaine use has become something you can no longer control, or when you stop you become unwell, the next stop is to speak with an experienced addiction clinician to get a free and confidential assessment.
Find Me a Rehab is an entirely clinician led advisory and signposting service whose clinicians can advise you on any aspect of Cocaine addiction treatment, detox, rehabilitation and therapy.
We do not provide treatment directly. Our role is to understand what is happening, explain suitable options and signpost you to an appropriate service.
This can include CQC registered residential rehabilitation centres, outpatient support or local authority funded (free to use) services, depending on your needs.
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Contact UsWhen Cocaine use becomes a problem
Cocaine is an illegal stimulant drug.
It is extremely addictive and can rapidly change your behaviour leading to significant consequences.
Cocaine use can lead to serious damage to your health.
Signs that it is time to get help include:
* Taking ever increasing amounts to have the same effect
* Spending money you can't afford to pay for it
* Overwhelming urges to use Cocaine
* Borrowing or stealing money to pay for it
* Using up a lot of time sourcing Cocaine
* Putting yourself and others, at risk through using it
* Continuing to use Cocaine even though you know the
problems it is causing
* Feeling unwell when not using it
* Making unsafe or risky decisions when using Cocaine
Why you should not stop taking Cocaine suddenly
Unlike other drugs, such as Alcohol or Heroin, there is no detox for Cocaine.
This is because Cocaine is a very short acting drug.
That is not to say that medication isn't used to help people who want help with Cocaine addiction. Adjunctive medication is used to help with withdrawal symptoms (blood pressure, anxiety, poor sleep, etc).
If you stop taking Cocaine suddenly (or reduce too quickly) you are likely to experience what is known as withdrawal.
This is because your brain has become used to you taking Cocaine and adjusted to it. If you suddenly stop, the brain can not re-adjust immediately.
While it does, it will fire off incorrect chemical messaging. This causes withdrawals.
Symptoms of withdrawal can include:
* Rapid low mood
* Not being able to feel pleasure
* Uncontrolled anxiety
* Extreme irritability
* Chronic fatigue
* Slowed down thinking
* Very poor memory
* Uncontrollable cravings
* Massive appetite
* Severe dehydration
* Very poor sleep or very excessive sleeping
* Nightmares
Unlike other drugs and alcohol, there are no reduction plan you can use.
Treatment protocols are to have a planned stoppage date,either by going into a residential treatment setting or, if eligable, having treatment at home.
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Treatment starts with an assessment. A clinician will usually need to understand how much Cocaine is being taken, how it is being taken and for how long.
The clinician will also need to know about your general state of health, any underlying conditions as well as prescribed/un-prescribed medication and your alcohol use.
For those whose Cocaine use is very significant, a short period of adjunctive medication is usually needed. This is rareley for more than a week: at most.
Adjunctive medication helps to lower blood pressure, your anxiety and lack of sleep which will all rise, very significantly, when you stop taking Cocaine.
This has nothing to do with willpower but is simply due to natural chemical changes in the brain.
The mainstay of treatment for Cocaine addiction remains residential rehab. This is because, in rehab, you will recieve the four essential elements of recovery:
* Medication to help with withdrawals (there is no detox for
Cocaine)
* Group therapy: If you get to understand why you are taking
Cocaine you stand a far better chance of staying abstinent
* Relapse prevention: Rehab is a supportive environment
with trained/experienced staff (many in long term recovery
themselves). When you leave, with relapse prevention skills,
you will have the tools to support yourself when
challenging situations arise that make relapse a possibility
* Aftercare: All centres offer a weekly aftercare group. you can
either attend, in person, or by logging in on-line.
While, as clinicians, we always recommend a group therapy approach for recovery from addiction, we appreciate that some people would prefer not to do this.
There are a very small number of centres that use an entirely one to one therapy approach. We can signpost you, accordingly.
If you want a group therapy based centre, but not one that uses a 12 step approach, we can direct you to centres that use alternative models.
Cocaine, Opioids, Alcohol and other drugs
Cocaine is a stimulant.
Many people get into a habit of using Cocaine to speed themselves up and then rely on other drugs and alcohol, to slow themselves down.
This becomes a very destructive pattern.
When you take Alcohol and Cocaine together (or within a period of time when either is still in your system) the body produces a chemical called Cocaethylene.
Aside from causing possible long term liver damage, Cocaethylene can cause you to have a stroke, heart attack or a seizure. A sufficent level of this chemical can be fatal.
If you use Cocaine as well as Heroin/Opioids you are asking your body to perform a "push/pull" motion.
When this happens, you will not feel the usual effects of the Cocaine, or the opioids, so will take more which puts you at very significant risk of overdose and fatality.
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Find Me A Rehab is an entirely clinician led advisory, signposting and referral service. The service is entirely free to use and completely confidential.
Its clinicians have experience across private rehabilitation, outpatient services, NHS and local authority funded (free to use) services, prisons, private hospitals and other treatment settings.
Find Me A Rehab states that its clinicians do not provide treatment, directly, rather they signpost clients to CQC registered services.
If private treatment is not the right option, they have a database of all local authority funded services as well as charity, 3rd sector and NHS commissoned services.
Get Help With Cocaine Addiction Treatment
You do not need to decide on a detox plan or rehabilitation centre before asking for advice.
Start by explaining what you are taking, how often you take it, what happens when you reduce it and any other substances or medicines involved.
Contact Find Me a Rehab for free and confidential advice about Cocaine addiction and suitable referral options.
Call 0333 041 9922 or email info@findmearehab.net. The helpline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Michael Imonirhua
Michael has been a qualifed substbance misuse practitoner since 2007.
He overcame his own addiction and thrives in recovery by using is lived experience to enhance his work with clients.
He is extremely passionate about person centred care having experienced the drawbacks of traditional community service provision.
Michael holds diplomas in:
* Counselling
* Conflict management
* Group work
* Cognitive behavioural therapy
* Advanced group facilitation
Michael maintains a busy caseload of clients who are overcoming addiction as well as those seeking treatment for PTSD, tramua and other mental health conditions.
In addition Michael is a skilled and experience educator and trainer aside from his role as clinical director of a private treatment service in London.
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