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Alcohol rehab is a form of alcohol addiction treatment that occurs in a residential treatment facility. This means that the recovering addict stays in the treatment center for the duration of their treatment. This makes alcohol rehab a fulltime treatment program that gives addicts the opportunity to focus solely on their recovery without having to worry about the outside distractions and temptations of their regular lives and routines. Alcohol rehab also ensures that the recovering alcohol addict does not relapse in the midst of treatment as they will not have an opportunity to do so.
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What is Alcohol Abuse?
Alcohol abuse is when a person drinks frequently to treat or deal with problems, illnesses or injuries (mental or physical) or to otherwise treat or mask any feelings or situations. Typically, abuse can appear as binge drinking or blackout drinking.
Binge Drinking
When a person binge drinks, they are consuming excessive quantities in a short period of time. This generally amounts to three or four drinks over the course of an hour, sometime two hours. Binge drinking is particularly common among college-age students and older adults above retirement age.
Blackout Drinking
When a person blacks out from drinking, it does not mean that they pass out or lose consciousness. What it actually means is that a person loses a block of time while intoxicated in a form of anterograde amnesia, meaning that drinking is impairing the person's ability to form new memories while intoxicated. This means the intoxicated individual is fully conscious and engaged in activities, but will not be able to remember them after the fact. Their first memory will be of the time before extreme intoxication and then will return after sufficient alcohol has left their system.
Signs of Alcohol Abuse
There are numerous signs of substance abuse that can be physical, social, mental, or even related to a person's health. These often include:
Physical Signs
- Slurred speech
- Poor coordination and balance
- Stumbling or other difficulties navigating
- Blurred or double vision
Social Signs
- Financial troubles
- Issues at work and school
- Drinking in inappropriate places and situations
- Social distancing and isolation
Mental Signs
- Depression
- Blackouts or memory loss
- Anxiety
- Intense mood swings and anger
Health Signs
- High blood pressure
- Heart problems
- Yellowed skin (jaundice from poor liver function)
- Seizures
Abuse transitions to addiction based on chemical interactions that alcohol has when it enters the body. When this substance gets into a person's bloodstream it begins to interact with the brain and essentially tells the brain to complete certain tasks while telling it to cease other tasks. These interactions occur every time alcohol is consumed, but do not necessarily cause long term problems until drinking is abused for a prolonged period of time and in larger and larger quantities.
When this happens the brain begins to perceive that it is "normal" to have intoxicants in the body and essentially that these chemicals belongs there. As such, it begins to treat these intoxicants like naturally-occurring chemicals in the body, meaning it will not perform the instructed tasks until a person drinks again. When this brain shift occurs, an abuser has become an addict.
How Alcohol Rehab Can Treat Addiction
Alcohol rehab begins with medical detox to break a person's physical addiction to alcohol and then transitions to deal with the mental addiction through various therapies and alternative treatments. A person leaves rehab with the skills a resources they need to go out in the world sober and to stay that way. In this way, alcohol rehab is extremely useful in treating a drinking addiction.
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