How the drug detox affects your body and mind?

There are several types of drug detox therapies and each therapy has its own ways of helping to detoxify people who are addicted to drugs, or who are abusing prescription pills or alcohol. "Detox" the word really means beyond the real definition. According to Merriam-Webster, detox means to free someone, like an alcoholic or a drug user from an addictive or an intoxicating substance in the body or from addiction to such a substance.

This process involves the forced withdrawal, in which the addicted person is cut off from all the drugs or alcohol and safely managed for the side effects of withdrawal. But, do you know, how does this procedure actually happen? And more importantly, during this whole process, what do an addicted person’s mind and body go through?

Let’s try to get the answers to those questions by understanding how a patient’s brain and body react during the process.

The most common side effects of drug and alcohol detox are a headache, severe stomach cramps, fast heart rate, excessive sweating, chills, muscle ache, vomiting, nausea, and diarrhea. As the body has become accustomed to the drug or alcohol over a period of weeks, months or years, thus, this is the body’s response to the lack of drugs or alcohol. Even if the Drug Counseling in Florida is slow and made easier with the help of medication, an addicted person’s body will still crave alcohol and drugs, and when that desire is not satisfied, the body will react negatively and depressingly to it.

When the person has completed the detox process, he/she may feel the psychological impact of living without the alcohol or drugs. It is very difficult for them to overcome these effects. The common psychological effects of detox are anxiety, frequent mood swings, depression, loss of desire and motivation, delusion, boredom etc. This is generally the result of an addicted person’s helplessness to live the life without the use of alcohol or drug.

In many cases, people become addicted to avoid the negative and stressful situations in their lives. When they cannot use the drugs, they face the same situations without an escape, irrespective of how damaging that escape may have been. To treat the signs of psychological withdrawal, there is only one option which is to receive individual counseling.

In fact, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is one of the most common and effective types of methods used to aid addicted people to live stable lives. The key goal of CBT is for addicts to learn to detect and correct difficult behaviors by using a variety of different skills that can be effectively used to halt drug abuse and also, to address the variety of other issues that mostly occur with it.

In the U.S., there are many drug and alcohol detoxification and residential drug treatment centers in Apopka. Val Demings, a U.S. Representative, Florida's 10th Congressional District had the pleasure of visiting "Om To Home" an inpatient detoxification, outpatient counseling and residential treatment center located in South Apopka. She said that it is quite disappointing that during the national drug crisis, Congress has failed to fund these centers which are thinking to build the strategies to address the opioid crisis.

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