Alcoholism and drug addiction are believed to affect around one million people in the United Kingdom. Peterborough is no exception when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction.
The good news is that if you suffer from drug or alcohol addiction, and you live in Peterborough, help is on hand.
Our team offers a free signposting service for people seeking effective addiction treatment in Peterborough.
At Rehab 4 Addiction, we understand it takes bravery to seek help for both drug and alcohol addiction.
When you contact Rehab 4 Addiction, we understand the difficulties you are likely experiencing when you first seek out help for your addiction.
This is fully reflected in the manner in which your call is received when you contact Rehab 4 Addiction.
Many of our call handlers are themselves living in recovery, so our approach offers you the maximum amount of compassion and understanding.
Both drug and alcohol addiction negatively affect your life in many ways.
Addiction is harmful and even hazardous to all you come into contact with, but particularly those closest to you. Addiction impacts your family in several ways, including emotionally and financially.
When you contact Rehab 4 Addiction for drug and alcohol rehab in Peterborough, it’s thus likely you are seeking treatment that will allow you to eradicate addiction once and for all.
Many people find it difficult to admit they have a substance misuse problem. For those who acknowledge it, the idea of entering rehab arises more quickly.
For those who find an addiction hard to accept, it’s useful to think about how they’re using substances and how life is affected.
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If the following conditions are present, then it’s important for people to seek help from a professional team:
Undergoing a drug or alcohol detox alone and without medical assistance is inadvisable for many reasons. When you undergo a detox, you will begin to experience withdrawal symptoms.
Some of these symptoms may cause a fatal seizure or cardiac arrest if not correctly treated. When you undergo a clinically supervised detox at an inpatient rehab in Peterborough, you will benefit from the highest possible standards of medical treatment.
This level of care ensures you will not experience fatal withdrawal symptoms whilst you undergo a detox programme.
All staff employed at our partner clinics in Peterborough are highly trained. Many hold advanced medical degrees and certificates.
All rehab clinics are also regulated and regularly inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Individual CQC reports are made available for each clinic via www.cqc.org.uk.
The vast majority of people undertaking a detox without clinical support will relapse.
Simply continuing to take drugs or alcohol will reverse rollback many withdrawal symptoms that are experienced when detox is attempted.
It is very difficult to complete detox without giving in to cravings and the obvious need to prevent withdrawal symptoms.
Fortunately, the treatment Rehab 4 Addiction recommends in Peterborough offers you the help and support you will require to make your detox a success.
Addiction hits every angle of a person’s functioning. It’s a disease that holds on to the mind and body while impacting the external life of a person too.
It took many years for the medical profession to understand and therefore address addiction appropriately.
Nowadays, professionals who work in the rehabilitation field use various methods of assessment.
There are two main types of assessment that are used:
The DSM-5 is a diagnostic tool that clarifies the level of your addiction. It takes into account how you use substances, the effects on your social life, as well as withdrawal symptoms. The more severe the addiction, the more professional input and treatments are needed.
The ASAM criteria tool is an assessment that enables the professional to see how substance use is affecting your life in every area. It asks questions about your substance use, health history, thoughts and feelings, attitude to recovery, how relapse has featured in your life so far, your living environment. With this in hand, it’s easier to identify what treatments are required for the patient.
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If you’re unsure whether you have an addiction, you can look at the DSM-5 criteria and figure out where you are.
There are eleven criteria. If you have 4-5 of the issues, then you’d be deemed as having a moderate problem, any higher and you’d be classified as having a severe addiction.
The eleven criteria are:
When someone you love is living with addiction but refuses to accept that they have a problem, this can be both heartbreaking and frustrating.
Many families and friendship groups develop unhelpful ways of communicating about this. This can make the situation a whole lot worse.
With an intervention, you can address this. An intervention is a planned approach that family members, or friends, use along with professionals.
One or two family members is often best (rather than lots of people) and involves confronting the person who is unwell with the professional and raising concerns.
The CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) approach is an excellent method to use if you’re feeling at a loss of what to do. It focuses on communication.
You learn how to communicate in a way that is positive and focuses on what is going well despite how difficult the situation is. It also places emphasis on taking time to look after yourself as well.
With the CRAFT approach to intervention along with a professional, you can start encouraging a person who denies their addiction towards approaching rehabilitation.
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Many people imagine rehab to cost huge amounts of money. There is a wide range of options, though.
When thinking about how much you’re able to invest, it might be interesting to also count up how much you usually spend on substances within a month or year.
Often, what you save on drinks and drugs covers the cost of a residential stay.
Now, the price is obviously affected by factors such as which clinic you go to, what medications might be needed, how long you’ll stay at the clinic, and whether you choose to share a room (to sleep in) or not.
Some people might choose an outpatient detox which is the cheapest option at around £1,500. However, for those with moderate to severe addictions, this isn’t the most effective option.
You’ll still be surrounded by usual triggers and won’t be receiving an immersive approach to psychological healing at the same time.
For a ten-day residential detox where you share a room, it will cost around £2,000-£4,000. To have a room of your own at a drug and alcohol rehab in Peterborough, the price will come in about £3,000-£6,000.
If you require a longer stay of twenty-eight days and are happy to share a bedroom, then it will cost around £6,000. To have a room for yourself, it’s about £8,000-£12,000.
One potential way to overcome an addiction to drugs and alcohol is to undergo rehab treatment at an inpatient unit. Here, your addiction will be treated via a clinically supervised detox process.
The psychological component of your addiction will be treated via the use of modern therapy and counselling techniques.
You will be taught how to cope with cravings that might cause relapse, and you will be taught how to enjoy your life without the need to take drugs or drink alcohol.
Drug and alcohol addiction is usually a crutch to cover up deeper emotional and psychological problems.
If you merely remove drugs and alcohol without addressing these emotional problems, it is highly likely you will relapse shortly following the completion of your rehab programme.
For this reason, Rehab 4 Addiction advocates treatment providers in Peterborough that offer advanced therapy techniques that address the underlying emotional causes of drug and alcohol addiction.
Undertaking these therapies ensures you are able to enjoy your life with utter and unconditional happiness.
In short, the ‘void’ created when drugs and alcohol are removed is very much filled by helping you rediscover other cleaner and safer activities.
A stay at rehab will be different for each individual. Every person is unique and brings their own set of circumstances.
As a general rule, though, there are short-term detox stays and longer stays which cover all areas of treatment.
If you need alcohol detox, then the length of time required for you to get through a tapered detox is around seven days.
You’ll be supported by staff to eat well and engage with very gentle one-to-one sessions.
To treat a severe addiction, it’s advisable to stay at rehab for a fully immersive rehabilitation experience. This lasts twenty-eight days.
When you stay for this length of time, you gain access to a physical detox, psychotherapeutic and alternative therapies, and group sessions.
This is the best provision offered in the UK within the addiction field to treat people living with addictions.
You have a bigger chance of successful long-term recovery, accessing this type of rehabilitation programme.
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Alcohol is an incredibly strong psychoactive substance. It causes a direct effect on the brain chemistry, hormonal system, and functioning of the organs.
What this means is that the substance can create a physical dependence in a person where their body comes to need alcohol in order to be able to function.
If a person with alcohol dependence was to just stop drinking, they would experience not only uncomfortable but dangerous withdrawal symptoms.
Symptoms include:
At its worst, an alcohol withdrawal where someone is dependent can cause death. In order to ease symptoms and manage risks, doctors in the field of addiction prescribe Librium.
Librium provides a safe tapered approach. A medically supervised detox at a rehab clinic is essential in order to keep the patient safe.
It takes around seven-ten days for a Librium-based detox to happen and it’s advised that patients thereafter complete another three weeks in order to benefit from a full rehabilitation experience.
This will then provide the psychological approach to recovery that is needed.
At the end of a residential stay, a relapse prevention plan will be put in place.
This will be drawn up after considering the history of a person’s alcohol use, their triggers, how to deal with thoughts and feelings manipulated by cravings, prevention activities, and what support groups to access.
So, this is where a person is drinking more than 30 units in a day and requires a tapered alcohol detox at a drug and alcohol rehab in Peterborough. A psychiatrist and doctor will assess the patient.
Where there is a low risk the professional will send the Librium prescription to the patient through the post and speak over the phone with the patient every day.
This is a cheaper alternative to inpatient services. It’s not, however, medically supervised which means the approach isn’t as safe in terms of managing risks.
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Cocaine creates a psychological addiction and has huge destructive effects on the mind and body. The severe effects it has on the cardiovascular and neurological systems are huge.
When a person goes into withdrawal, the symptoms tend to be linked to mood swings, emotions, thoughts and linked behaviours.
This is why cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is essential. Psychotherapists guide patients to understand how an addictive thought is triggered and how to reframe those thoughts and triggers.
When you manage thoughts, you’re equipped to change your behaviours. It is, however, essential that all treatments advised by the psychiatrist are participated in.
Heroin, like alcohol, creates a physical dependency. With the onset of withdrawal, there can be extremely distressing physical effects, such as:
A medically supervised detox where doctors prescribe medications such as Subutex (brand name for buprenorphine), methadone, and naltrexone is necessary.
This is essential in order to provide a tapered and safe withdrawal period.
Following this, patients are offered psychotherapeutic and alternative therapies to support long-term recovery.
Cannabis can be a tricky drug to approach for many people as users often defend its “medical properties”. Many use it to relax and because they’ve come to rely on it to sleep.
Sadly, like the majority of psychoactive substances, THC (the psychoactive chemical in cannabis) can create very unhealthy effects. This is especially so in people who have mental health problems.
THC strains of cannabis can cause anxiety, psychotic symptoms, and sleep-related issues. People often come to rely on it to feel normal.
One of the biggest issues around cannabis is the lifestyle created around it. Many people smoke with friends.
Cannabis is treated through psychotherapies and addressing the importance of having meaningful activities in your life.
Behavioural techniques and lifestyle changes are imperative in approaching cannabis treatment.
For those with related mental health problems, medications might also be required.
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It’s imperative that residents who enter a rehabilitation clinic have all their needs met.
Their addiction needs to be approached through the physical, psychological, historical, social and environmental areas.
Granted, this is a lot to cover. Hence, why a twenty-eight-day stay is usually most effective. There’s a lot to focus on in terms of your healing journey.
The professional staff will specialise in different areas at drug and alcohol rehab in Peterborough. They will form a team around you, working collaboratively to facilitate a successful beginning to your recovery.
The treatments offered include:
A dual diagnosis is really important in terms of treating a person who has both an addiction and a mental health problem.
The mental health condition might be depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or an eating disorder.
On the other hand, the person might also have behavioural addictions, such as those to shopping, social media use, porn use, or gambling.
Where there are other mental health issues, professionals need to be aware.
If you’re honest with the problems you’re facing, a psychiatrist or doctor will be able to assess you and diagnose you appropriately.
When you have a dual diagnosis, the rehabilitation team is then able to treat your addiction in light of the other mental health issues you’re living with.
This allows for more effective treatment programmes. It’s also going to offer an increased likelihood of long-term successful outcomes.
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Your time at rehab will bring a team of professionals around you. They’ll get to know you and through deep, honest conversations will understand a great deal about you, your drives, and your lifestyle.
Together, you’ll discuss what support you’ll need in place to facilitate a successful relapse prevention plan.
A relapse might begin as a psychological, physical, or emotional response to something.
Therefore, the plan will consider and plan around the following factors:
Yes, there are. However, it’s important to keep in mind that a residential stay at a private rehab clinic provides the best standard of treatment and care in the field of addiction in the UK.
This is especially the case where people need treatment for moderate to severe addictions.
Other treatment programmes include the following:
Whatever your situation may be, give our friendly team a call today on 0800 140 4690.
If you are worried about your addiction to drugs or alcohol, get in touch with Rehab 4 Addiction today on 0800 140 4690.
Rehab 4 Addiction officers a range of addiction treatments in Bedfordshire, including Luton, Peterborough, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard.