Delray Rehab for Dual Diagnosis: The Delray Center for Healing Can Help

If you are suffering from a concurrent mental illness and a chemical dependency issue, our Delray rehab can help. Admitting that you suffer from both mental illness and addiction can be difficult, due to the stigma attached to both conditions. However, you’re not alone – 37% of alcoholics and 53% of drug addicts also suffer from a mental illness, and 29% of people who are diagnosed with a mental illness also have substance abuse issues.

The Link Between Addiction and Mental Illness

At our Delray rehab, we understand that providing dual diagnosis care is vital because addiction and mental illness can feed on one another and exacerbate one another. While both addiction and mental illness may occur together and may be linked, they do not cause one another.

However, many people who suffer from undiagnosed or untreated mental illness abuse drugs or alcohol as a means of self-medicating. This can lead to addiction.

People who are at risk for mental illness may be more likely to abuse substances and substance abuse can create difficult life circumstances that encourage the emergence of mental health symptoms. If you are already experiencing mental health symptoms, substance abuse can make them much worse.

A Dual Diagnosis Requires Dual Treatment

When you come to our Delray rehab, you will be evaluated to determine if you might be suffering from a concurrent mental health condition. If you have been previously diagnosed with a mental illness, let the specialists at our Delray rehab know so you can get the treatment you need. Without treatment for your mental illness, you cannot recover from addiction – and vice versa.

Our Delray rehab uses a combination of traditional and alternative therapies to provide a holistic treatment experience. Your treatment will involve both addiction counseling and mental illness treatment tailored to your individual needs. At our Delray rehab, you’ll receive vital education about your mental illness, and learn the coping skills that will help you enjoy a happy, stable life free of substances and mental illness symptoms.

Don’t let a dual diagnosis keep you from seeking treatment – dual diagnosis patients can and do recover every day! Call The Delray Center for Healing at 1-888-699-5679 to find out how we can help.

 

 

 

Heroin Use Is Up — Our Suboxone Detox Delray Beach Program Can Help

Since 2007, heroin use rates in the United States have almost doubled – from 373,000 to 669,000 as of 2012. Experts have tied the increase in heroin use to the increase in prescription drug abuse – almost four-fifths of people who have started using heroin recently say they switched from prescription painkillers. Heroin is cheaper and easier to get than prescription painkillers, and today’s heroin is pure enough to be smoked, so users don’t have to worry about the stigma or disease risk associated with shooting up.

Suboxone Treatment Works for Opiate Addiction

If you’re struggling with addiction to heroin or opiate painkillers, our Suboxone detox Delray Beach program can help you get off the roller coaster of highs and withdrawals and get your life back. With our Suboxone detox Delray Beach program, you won’t have to go to a methadone clinic every day to get your maintenance drugs. That means you can enjoy greater privacy and freedom from stigma as you go through your Suboxone detox Delray Beach program for opiate addiction.

Avoid Painful Withdrawals with Our Suboxone Detox Delray Beach Program

Withdrawal pains are one of the primary reasons why many opiate addicts delay getting treatment. Not only are withdrawals excruciating, they’re impossible to hide. When you’re going through withdrawals, you can’t function in the workplace, the classroom, or the home. With our Suboxone detox Delray Beach program, you’ll avoid withdrawals by gradually lowering your daily dose of maintenance medication until you’re not taking any medication at all.

Detox Alone Isn’t the Answer

Our Suboxone detox Delray Beach program can help you stop using drugs, but you need counseling to address the issues behind your drug use and learn the coping skills you need to avoid relapse.

With treatment, you can put opiate addiction behind you. Call 1-888-699-5679 now to find out how our Suboxone detox Delray Beach program can help you overcome addiction.

DBT for Addiction Treatment Delray Beach Program – What You Need to Know

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, was originally developed as a form of non-confrontational therapy for the treatment of borderline personality disorders. It’s been used successfully to treat substance abuse and eating disorders, PTSD, OCD and other anxiety disorders. When you enroll in our addiction treatment Delray Beach program, you’ll experience the transformative power of DBT for yourself.

Your Thoughts Are Powerful

All of your beliefs, behaviors and emotional reactions stem from your thoughts. To understand why you behave and feel as you do, it’s important to identify and analyze the thoughts behind your feelings and behaviors. Once you’ve identified the thoughts that lead to unhealthy behaviors and difficult feelings, you can replace them with thoughts that lead to healthy behaviors and positive emotions. DBT helps you do that.

You Can Get to the Roots of Addiction

Our addiction treatment Delray Beach program uses DBT to help you pinpoint the psychological and emotional issues at the heart of your addiction. While addiction is a physiological disease that causes real changes in the brain, the substance abuse that leads to addiction typically occurs because of past trauma or mental illness. Our addiction treatment Delray Beach program brings you peace and healing for your underlying mental and emotional issues, so you can enjoy a real recovery from addiction.

You Can Learn to Love Yourself Again

Many of the people in our addiction treatment Delray Beach program suffer from poor self-image and low self-esteem. After years of battling chemical dependency and the stigma of addiction, as well as any underlying emotional or psychological problems, it’s not hard to see why. Our DBT addiction treatment Delray Beach program focuses on helping you learn to be patient with yourself and others, and develop the interpersonal skills you need to be confident and cope with stress, so you can begin to respect yourself as a strong and resilient person.

You Can Be Self-Aware

Our addiction treatment Delray Beach program uses DBT to teach patients how to gain self-awareness. Through self-awareness, you can begin to see how your behaviors affect those around you, which behaviors you need to change, and how you can change them.

It’s time to say goodbye to addiction. Call our addiction treatment Delray Beach facility now at 1-888-699-5679 to learn more.

 

 

Isn’t Outpatient Detox Just Replacing One Addiction with Another? Outpatient Detox Boynton Beach Programs Work.

Plenty of people who don’t have any personal experience with addiction, or who have never know someone who’s struggled with addiction, don’t understand the point of programs like our outpatient detox Boynton Beach program for opiate addiction treatment. Our outpatient detox Boynton Beach program, like other outpatient detox programs, treats opiate addiction by prescribing Subutex and Suboxone to relieve withdrawal symptoms.

Many people mistakenly think this is simply replacing one addiction with another, and not doing the addict any good in the long run. In fact, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Programs like our outpatient detox Boynton Beach program are proven to work. Here’s how.

Outpatient Detox Helps Addicts Get Back on Their Feet

When you’re addicted to opiates, your biggest priority is getting your next fix. You see-saw back and forth from being drowsy and doped-up to being frantic with withdrawals – even if you wanted to, you wouldn’t be able to focus on work, childcare, or other responsibilities. The physical effects of addiction are that strong.

Programs like our outpatient detox Boynton Beach program lets addicts stop the cycle of highs and withdrawals, so they can feel normal again all day long. With help from our outpatient detox Boynton Beach program, they can focus on working, taking care of their families and themselves, and going back to school; right away, they can begin to live normal, happy lives.

The Goal of Outpatient Detox is to Stop Taking All Drugs

When addicts join our outpatient detox Boynton Beach program, they’re given a dose of Suboxone and that dose is gradually lowered, or tapered, over time until they can stop taking Suboxone altogether and be totally drug free. While it’s true that some patients may take longer than others to achieve this, the goal is not to keep patients taking maintenance drugs all their lives.

Some might wonder, “Why bother with an outpatient detox? Why not just stop taking opiates cold turkey?” Well, opiate withdrawals are incredibly painful and most addicts can’t endure them without returning to use. It’s not because they don’t have enough willpower, either – addiction isn’t about willpower. Our outpatient detox Boynton Beach program helps bring withdrawals to a manageable level.

If you or someone you love is addicted to opiates, we can help. Call us today at 1-888-699-5679 to learn more.

Law Enforcement Failing to Control International Drug Supply, News Article Says

A recent news article published in the journal “Science Daily” says that we’re losing the worldwide “War on Drugs.” The international illegal drug trade rakes in $350 billion USD every year, according to estimates released by the United Nations.

The news article stressed that violent crime and the spread of diseases like HIV through shared drug needles are some of the primary concerns associated with the proliferation of the international drug trade.

In the past two decades, illegal drugs have become more potent and cheaper, the news article pointed out. Supplies continue to increase in spite of the fact that law enforcement drug seizures are growing in size.

Since 1990, prices for heroin, marijuana and cocaine have fallen by more than 80 percent in the United States, while potency and/or purity of the same drugs increased by 60 percent for heroin, 11 percent for cocaine and 161 percent for marijuana.

In Europe and Australia, drug prices have decreased sharply as well, the news article said.

Cannabis and heroin seizures have increased by 465 percent and 29 percent in the US, the news article said, even though cocaine seizures have fallen by about half since 1990. As of 2009, seizures of heroin in Europe had increased by 380 percent.

The news article suggested that perhaps current anti-drug measures need to be reconsidered, since attempts to curb the supply of illegal drugs have proven unsuccessful. Other options include strict regulation of drug supplies and decriminalization. Researchers investigation the problem have said that there is no evidence that restricting illegal drug supplies has any benefit in regards to limiting their use, and that attempting to cut illegal drug supplies may, in fact, have the opposite, undesirable effect, the news article said.

At The Delray Center for Healing, we take a holistic approach to addiction treatment – we understand that you’re more than your affliction. Call us today at 1-888-699-5679 to find out how we can help you start a new life.