drug-rehab-clinic.com http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog Drug and alcohol rehabilitation Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:37:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 en Substance Abuse Help By Lesc http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/substance-abuse-help-by-lesc.htm http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/substance-abuse-help-by-lesc.htm#comments Fri, 18 May 2007 02:04:12 +0000 dpi http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/substance-abuse-help-by-lesc.htm LESC offers help for addictions including heroin, alcohol and pain pills and for methadone medication assisted treatment. At LESC, we help identify and implement a customized treatment plan to help each client achieve and sustain sobriety, employment, housing, and hope for the future. LESC offers safe and structured residential environments for New Yorkers living with opioid dependency. We provide the opportunity to understand past behaviors, change, and become more functional and self-sufficient.
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Su Casa Methadone-to-Abstinence Residence (MTAR) is a 12 to 18-month residential recovery experience for people choosing to become drug-free and more productive members of their communities. This treatment program is a therapeutic community where the primary goal is to foster personal growth and healthier lifestyles through a community of residents and MTAR staff members working closely together for the benefit of each resident. The MTAR program is not all work though. Residents consistently enjoy delicious and plentiful meals, family visits and events, exercise, entertainment, culture and many social connectedness and life skills learning opportunities, such as: Kung Fu classes, acting classes, Yankees and Mets baseball games, talent shows, amusement park visits, and poetry readings.
LESC offers help for addictions including heroin, alcohol and pain pills and for methadone medication assisted treatment. At LESC, we help identify and implement a customized treatment plan to help each client achieve and sustain sobriety, employment, housing, and hope for the future. LESC offers safe and structured residential environments for New Yorkers living with opioid dependency. We provide the opportunity to understand past behaviors, change, and become more functional and self-sufficient.

Su Casa Methadone-to-Abstinence Residence (MTAR) is a 12 to 18-month residential recovery experience for people choosing to become drug-free and more productive members of their communities. This treatment program is a therapeutic community where the primary goal is to foster personal growth and healthier lifestyles through a community of residents and MTAR staff members working closely together for the benefit of each resident. The MTAR program is not all work though. Residents consistently enjoy delicious and plentiful meals, family visits and events, exercise, entertainment, culture and many social connectedness and life skills learning opportunities, such as: Kung Fu classes, acting classes, Yankees and Mets baseball games, talent shows, amusement park visits, and poetry readings.

]]> http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/substance-abuse-help-by-lesc.htm/feed/ Development of Dysfunctional Behavior http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/development-of-dysfunctional-behavior.htm http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/development-of-dysfunctional-behavior.htm#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 07:43:30 +0000 dpi http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/development-of-dysfunctional-behavior.htm drugAddiction does not affect the personality of the drug abuser alone but everybody else in the family. There is a definite shift in the way the family thinks acts and expresses feelings.

In spite of surmounting problems, the addicts find it difficult to accept the powerlessness and unmanageability over drugs. The family too refuses to recognize that arguments are pointless and that a meaningful resolution is impossible, but continue to engage in unproductive arguments.

The quiet and friendly spouse may turn into a cold and controlling woman. The raised tones and verbal abuses of the family members can often be similar to that of the addict himself. The negative attitude displayed towards the addict is reflected in the interactions with others in the family as well as those in the outside world. The discontent and frustration maybe displayed towards all who come in contact with her.

]]> http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/development-of-dysfunctional-behavior.htm/feed/ The Colombo Plan Initiative http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/the-colombo-plan-initiative.htm http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/the-colombo-plan-initiative.htm#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 05:36:10 +0000 dpi http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/the-colombo-plan-initiative.htm
The problem of drug abuse and its aftermath upon society is no longer confined to any socio-cultural or nation boundary. Apart from its obvious sociological impact reflected in broken productivity and human resource development. As long as there is a demand for drugs, the traffickers will find ways to meet this market requirement. The rising demand for drugs among the youth in countries of the Asian region must be curbed and reduced on a priority basis by undertaking both preventive and curative measures, especially in the area of tertiary prevention and follow-up activities. All the effort, time and resources spent on treatment and rehabilitation of addicts will be in vain if they relapse, due to the lack of effective follow-up and aftercare programmes. Therefore, the development of a coordinated and well-managed support network has become vital.

Many South and Southeast Asian countries have well-developed treatment and rehabilitation programmes for drug addicts. However, the rates of relapse are quite high due to lack of well-designed, effective follow-up programmes and trained personnel in this area. Therefore, the Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Programme (DAP) launched several initiatives covering the re-entry, reintegration and aftercare of recovering addicts. The DAP paid attention to this aspect as early as 1996 and designed a project to develop support group networks among recovering drug abusers to provide them the necessary knowledge, skills and guidance to mobilize and emerge as strong self-help groups similar to the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA).

In order to supplement this initiative, the DAP also designed and published A Primer On Relapse Prevention as a guidebook for new counselors and treatment practitioners to be more proficient in assisting recovering addicts to reintegrate into society and lead a normal and healthy lifestyle. Relating to the development of the support group network, the DAP conducted the first training workshop in Kandy, Sri Lanka in December 2000 and the second in Bogor, Indonesia in June 2001 followed by a workshop to train facilitators in Pakistan in 2002. As a result, several self-help groups have been formed in Asia.

In this respect, the DAP organized several training workshops and fellowship/attachment programmes for treatment practitioners, counselors and recovering addicts to gain knowledge and skills on relapse prevention and aftercare programmes at Asian centres such as the Pertapis Halfway House in Singapore, TTK Hospital in Chennai, India and Pengasih in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In addition, the DAP conducted two training workshops in this area in Kabul, Afghanistan and provided a one-month fellowship/attachment at Pengasih Malaysia for 13 Afghan treatment practitioners.

Through these programmes, the DAP trained practioners from GOs and NGOs in Asia to enable them to provide efficient aftercare programmes and gain proficiency in relapse prevention of recovering drug addicts. These training workshops not only provided the basic concepts and models of aftercare programmes and relapse prevention, but also shared best practices particularly in the area of developing support group network.

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The drug abuser may display a discernable behavior pattern. The verbal abuses and threats when he is demanding money to buy drugs and the silent, almost repenting mood he is in after use may be a familiar pattern. The family too may react in a predictable manner, each member taking on a specific role.

This can also be seen in the roles that children play. The responsible child may take over and direct the adults, the rebellious child may add to the stress by acting out his negative feelings, the placatory may attempt to relieve the tension by soothing words or jokes and the lost child may simply withdraw.

The negative but familiar ways of responding to each is well entrenched and often, the family is not even conscious of it.

]]> http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/predictable-roles-of-family-members.htm/feed/ The sobriety-Intoxication Cycle of Behavior http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/the-sobriety-intoxication-cycle-of-behavior.htm http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/the-sobriety-intoxication-cycle-of-behavior.htm#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:25:50 +0000 dpi http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/the-sobriety-intoxication-cycle-of-behavior.htm drug-rehabThe Jekyll and Hyde transformation of the drug abuser when he is on the drug or off is reflected in the family. The family also functions differently based on whether he is under the influence of the drug or not. The family that settles down in the living room to watch television, talk and work when he is sober may decide to stay aloof in the privacy of their own rooms when he is under the influence of drugs.

While some families may become fearful and silent when he is under the influence of drugs, others may see it as an opportunity to vent their feelings on issues related or unrelated to his addiction.

Drug abuse influences the way the family functions. The way the family behaves is not based on what they want or feel but rather dictated by whether the addict is intoxicated or not.

]]> http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/the-sobriety-intoxication-cycle-of-behavior.htm/feed/ Family support http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/family-support.htm http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/family-support.htm#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:17 +0000 dpi http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/family-support.htm familysupportFamily support in the recovery process encompasses three fundamentals. First the family needs to understand the nature of addiction, thereby arming themselves against the destructive influence. Only then can they be free to help the addicted family member. They need to realize that the addict must break his own denial and acknowledge his addiction if he is to recover. The family should not feel obligated to cover or make excuses for the addict. They need to know that their unhealthy support to the addicted member families enables the latter to continue with the addiction. They need to realize that it is only when the enabling forces of the family system collapses that drug addict has a chance of recovery.

Secondly the family must accept the fact that addiction is a family disease. Addiction by one family member will eventually affect the rest of the family. They need to acknowledge that they have little if any control over the addict’s behavior. Nevertheless they can impress upon the addict their refusal to stand by and watch his self-destruction. They need to stand together and insist that the addict seek treatment.

The best that the family can do is to be constructive towards the addicted member and support his treatment programme. The family needs to help the addict remain focused during the treatment process. All the family members must remain firm in impressing upon the addict to complete his treatment.

The journey to recovery can only succeed with the full and active participation of the family members. Treatment is only the first step of the long road to recovery. It rekindles hope to help sustain the long journey that the addict and the family members must travel together. Addiction did not happen over might and neither does recovery. An addict may go through a whole range of feelings even in the course of a day. This is not uncommon given the demand being made upon the addict in trying to maintain his new drug-free life. The new person that emerges from the shell of addiction may not be what the family wants or expects. Unconsciously the family may contribute to undermining the recovery process.

Families that have gone through the experience of care-taking of their addicted member need to share such experiences with other families undergoing similar experiences. These will help ease the sense of loneliness and despair and will lead to a more constructive attitude.

]]> http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/family-support.htm/feed/ The impact of addiction on families http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/the-impact-of-addiction-on-families.htm http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/the-impact-of-addiction-on-families.htm#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:39:55 +0000 dpi http://drug-rehab-clinic.com/blog/the-impact-of-addiction-on-families.htm Addiction is frequently referred to as a family disease. This simply states that addiction affects not just the drug abuser but also each and every member of the family with just the same intensity if not more.
therapeutic-communityNobody in the family is immune-the parents, siblings, spouse and children. The impact varies in degree depending on the roles they play in the family and the responsibilities they carry. Nevertheless, addiction touches all their lives.

Parents often carry a huge load of guilt wondering where they went wrong in their child rearing. At a time when they wish to slow down, they are forced to take care of the addict who seems incapable of taking care of him self.

The wife faces problems from all directions. Financial problems, job insecurity, anxiety about her husband’s (addict) health, fear of the future, threat of violence, shame, guilt-all take a heavy toll on her physical and emotional well-being. She tries everything; from pleading to advising, threatening and arguing, but nothing works. She looks in vain for the reason for his addiction. She blames herself and tries to be a perfect wife, or blames others and ends up justifying his behavior. She is confused, cursing him vehemently at times and later, treating him likes a delicate child. To add to it all, she is repeatedly told by others to do something about it, which is just what she is unable to. If the addict is the wife, the problems intensify even further.

The children are of course the most pathetic helpless victims in the tragedy. The parents are so caught up with addiction that they have no energy or enthusiasm to care for their basic needs, shower love or provide encouragement. The children live by three unwritten rules:
-don’t talk (for you may let out the shameful secret about addiction)
-don’t trust (for promises are never kept and nobody can be relied upon)
-don’t even feel (for nobody cares about the way you feel)

Unable to make sense of the illogical events at home, the children are left to fend for themselves and cope as best as they can. This legacy can also carry over into their adult years.

The siblings of the addict are forced to carry an unfair share of their responsibilities by caring for the addict and his family in addiction to handling the shame related to addiction.

The impact of addiction is so pervading that it affects all aspects of each member’s life and threatens the very structure of the family. Addiction does not change the drug abuser alone. It changes everything about the family.

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