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ADHD
Attention Deficit Disorder is a chronic condition by which it’s afflicted are continually inattentive, hyperactive, and occasionally impulsive. ADHD starts in childhood and often lingers into adulthood. As many as 2 out of every 3 children affected by ADHD continue to have symptoms well into adulthood. This includes inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity – which are the key behaviors of those with ADHD.
Crisis Management
Often characterized by a mental breakdown, crisis management is dealing with extreme situations in an effective manner. People who suffer from this are typically incapable of thinking of practical solutions and will negate the issue at hand. The patient suffering from crisis management tends to need help very early on in the process. This means reaching out to family/friends and contacting a doctor or mental health provider.
Grief & Loss
After loss, some individuals have a difficult time returning to their lives before and require special attention and help. The grieving process is very individualized; there is no actual timetable for it to end. Grief encompasses shock and disbelief, sadness, guilt, anger, and fear.
Stress Management
Dealing with stress and stressful situation with calm, level-headed intentions and charisma. Physical symptoms of stress range from low energy and headaches to chest pain and dry mouth. If left unchecked, ongoing stress can cause serious health issues including depression, cardiovascular disease, obesity, sexual dysfunction, and gastrointestinal problems.
Substance Use Disorders
Abuse, consistent use, or addiction characterizes the plight of substance use disorders. The substance could be interfering with the person’s personal or professional life or even life-threatening. Common Substance Use disorders include Alcohol Use Disorder, Tobacco Use Disorder, and Cannabis Use Disorder. Regardless of the substance, many of the same behaviors are prevalent and require the same course of treatment.
Anger Management
Anger management is dealing with the inability to cope with stressful situations, controlling one’s anger, attitude, and ability to deal with situations productively and responsibly under calm duress. Suppressed anger can also be an underlying cause of anxiety and depression. Doctors suggest deep breathing and positive self-talk as the first steps in helping manage anger.
Chronic Pain Issues
People with issues resulting from medicating chronic pain issues require specialized healing that can come in numerous forms and must be discovered individually with guidance from a trained professional. Chronic pain is often defined as any pain that lasts longer than 12 weeks. Whereas acute pain is a normal sensation that alerts us to possible injury, chronic pain is very different. Chronic pain persists—often for months and sometimes even longer and may be complicated by issues associated with prescription medication.
Impulse Control Disorders
Controlling feelings or actions that are immediate and often reactionary. These individuals need assistance in finding new psychology in dealing with their intense immediacy and needs. Scientists are still researching the cause of these types of disorders but many think that there are a good handful of factors including physical or biological, psychological or emotional, and cultural or societal issues.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Caused from a moment or moments of extremely stressful situations, environments, and individuals. This disorder can cause the afflicted to avoid people, places, or activities in fear and completely disrupt their personal and professional lives. Not every traumatized person develops ongoing (chronic) or even short-term (acute) PTSD. Not everyone with PTSD has been through a dangerous event. Some experiences, like the sudden, unexpected death of a loved one, can also cause PTSD.
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders are a cluster of mental disorders marked by feelings of anxiety or loathing. Anxiety is a worry about the future and loathing is a reaction to current happenings. These feelings could manifest in physical forms, such as a faster heart rate or trembling. Disorders in this category include Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Sleep Disorders.
Mood Disorders
Mood disorders refer to a plethora of swinging, bipolar, or mood control disorders. These disorders often ruin relationships and take control of the individual’s free will. About 20% of the U.S. population reports at least one depressive symptom in a given month, and 12% report two or more in a year. Depression is a common feature of mental illness, whatever its nature and origin. People are more easily demoralized by depression and slower to recover if they are withdrawn and unreasonably self-critical or irritable, impulsive, and hypersensitive to loss.
Relational Trauma
Trauma is caused by a personal experience with another individual. Often characterized by mental, verbal, and physical abuse inflicted on the sufferer. Women experience remarkably high rates of relational trauma including child abuse and neglect and intimate partner violence (IPV) during adulthood, and the childbearing years are no exception.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are disorders in which a person may forget who they are or become another person they think they are. It causes major disruptions in their daily lives and relationships. Symptoms of each personality disorder differ and can be either mild or severe. People with personality disorders often have trouble identifying that they have a problem; they believe their thoughts are normal and that it is other people who are to blame. Treatment usually includes talk therapy and sometimes medicine.
Body Image Issues
Body image issues are when an individual sees themselves in an extremely negative light. It could stem from mental and verbal abuse from any age and typically attacks the psyche by focusing on what the sufferer perceives as a flaw. Researchers have noted that people with body image issues or disordered eating have difficulties with visual processing.
Family Issues
Issues pertaining to family are treated with the help of clinicians who know how to break down communication barriers in relationships in order to fix the problems at hand. Conflicts are a part of family life. A lot of different issues, such as Parenting Issues can lead to conflict, including illness, disability, addiction, job loss, school problems, and marital issues. Listening to one another and actively working to resolve conflicts are key to reinforcing the family.
Relationship Issues
Problems between loved ones typically stemming from communication breakdowns and the inability to compromise or change to make the other person happy. These issues can arise from a couple spending too little – or even too much – time together. They can stem from fighting over the same issues, from insecurities over your future to feeling misunderstood. Money is also a common root of relationship issues.
Sexual Disorders
Sexual disorders are involving sex, perversion, or acts that have nothing to do with sex in the standard definition but have been fetishized and cause a disruption in the individual or society’s regular agenda. Psychotherapy is a common treatment for desire disorders. Treatment focuses on bringing awareness to any unresolved conflicts and how they impact the patient’s life. While improvement is possible, the sexual dysfunction often becomes autonomous and persists, requiring additional techniques. Various hormones have also been studied for the treatment of sexual desire disorders.
ADHD
Attention Deficit Disorder is a chronic condition by which it’s afflicted are continually inattentive, hyperactive, and occasionally impulsive. ADHD starts in childhood and often lingers into adulthood. As many as 2 out of every 3 children affected by ADHD continue to have symptoms well into adulthood. This includes inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity – which are the key behaviors of those with ADHD.
Crisis Management
Often characterized by a mental breakdown, crisis management is dealing with extreme situations in an effective manner. People who suffer from this are typically incapable of thinking of practical solutions and will negate the issue at hand. The patient suffering from crisis management tends to need help very early on in the process. This means reaching out to family/friends and contacting a doctor or mental health provider.
Grief & Loss
After loss, some individuals have a difficult time returning to their lives before and require special attention and help. The grieving process is very individualized; there is no actual timetable for it to end. Grief encompasses shock and disbelief, sadness, guilt, anger, and fear.
Stress Management
Dealing with stress and stressful situation with calm, level-headed intentions and charisma. Physical symptoms of stress range from low energy and headaches to chest pain and dry mouth. If left unchecked, ongoing stress can cause serious health issues including depression, cardiovascular disease, obesity, sexual dysfunction, and gastrointestinal problems.
Substance Use Disorders
Abuse, consistent use, or addiction characterizes the plight of substance use disorders. The substance could be interfering with the person’s personal or professional life or even life-threatening. Common Substance Use disorders include Alcohol Use Disorder, Tobacco Use Disorder, and Cannabis Use Disorder. Regardless of the substance, many of the same behaviors are prevalent and require the same course of treatment.
Anger Management
Anger management is dealing with the inability to cope with stressful situations, controlling one’s anger, attitude, and ability to deal with situations productively and responsibly under calm duress. Suppressed anger can also be an underlying cause of anxiety and depression. Doctors suggest deep breathing and positive self-talk as the first steps in helping manage anger.
Chronic Pain Issues
People with issues resulting from medicating chronic pain issues require specialized healing that can come in numerous forms and must be discovered individually with guidance from a trained professional. Chronic pain is often defined as any pain that lasts longer than 12 weeks. Whereas acute pain is a normal sensation that alerts us to possible injury, chronic pain is very different. Chronic pain persists—often for months and sometimes even longer and may be complicated by issues associated with prescription medication.
Impulse Control Disorders
Controlling feelings or actions that are immediate and often reactionary. These individuals need assistance in finding new psychology in dealing with their intense immediacy and needs. Scientists are still researching the cause of these types of disorders but many think that there are a good handful of factors including physical or biological, psychological or emotional, and cultural or societal issues.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Caused from a moment or moments of extremely stressful situations, environments, and individuals. This disorder can cause the afflicted to avoid people, places, or activities in fear and completely disrupt their personal and professional lives. Not every traumatized person develops ongoing (chronic) or even short-term (acute) PTSD. Not everyone with PTSD has been through a dangerous event. Some experiences, like the sudden, unexpected death of a loved one, can also cause PTSD.
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders are a cluster of mental disorders marked by feelings of anxiety or loathing. Anxiety is a worry about the future and loathing is a reaction to current happenings. These feelings could manifest in physical forms, such as a faster heart rate or trembling. Disorders in this category include Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Sleep Disorders.
Mood Disorders
Mood disorders refer to a plethora of swinging, bipolar, or mood control disorders. These disorders often ruin relationships and take control of the individual’s free will. About 20% of the U.S. population reports at least one depressive symptom in a given month, and 12% report two or more in a year. Depression is a common feature of mental illness, whatever its nature and origin. People are more easily demoralized by depression and slower to recover if they are withdrawn and unreasonably self-critical or irritable, impulsive, and hypersensitive to loss.
Relational Trauma
Trauma is caused by a personal experience with another individual. Often characterized by mental, verbal, and physical abuse inflicted on the sufferer. Women experience remarkably high rates of relational trauma including child abuse and neglect and intimate partner violence (IPV) during adulthood, and the childbearing years are no exception.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are disorders in which a person may forget who they are or become another person they think they are. It causes major disruptions in their daily lives and relationships. Symptoms of each personality disorder differ and can be either mild or severe. People with personality disorders often have trouble identifying that they have a problem; they believe their thoughts are normal and that it is other people who are to blame. Treatment usually includes talk therapy and sometimes medicine.
Body Image Issues
Body image issues are when an individual sees themselves in an extremely negative light. It could stem from mental and verbal abuse from any age and typically attacks the psyche by focusing on what the sufferer perceives as a flaw. Researchers have noted that people with body image issues or disordered eating have difficulties with visual processing.
Family Issues
Issues pertaining to family are treated with the help of clinicians who know how to break down communication barriers in relationships in order to fix the problems at hand. Conflicts are a part of family life. A lot of different issues, such as Parenting Issues can lead to conflict, including illness, disability, addiction, job loss, school problems, and marital issues. Listening to one another and actively working to resolve conflicts are key to reinforcing the family.
Relationship Issues
Problems between loved ones typically stemming from communication breakdowns and the inability to compromise or change to make the other person happy. These issues can arise from a couple spending too little – or even too much – time together. They can stem from fighting over the same issues, from insecurities over your future to feeling misunderstood. Money is also a common root of relationship issues.
Sexual Disorders
Sexual disorders are involving sex, perversion, or acts that have nothing to do with sex in the standard definition but have been fetishized and cause a disruption in the individual or society’s regular agenda. Psychotherapy is a common treatment for desire disorders. Treatment focuses on bringing awareness to any unresolved conflicts and how they impact the patient’s life. While improvement is possible, the sexual dysfunction often becomes autonomous and persists, requiring additional techniques. Various hormones have also been studied for the treatment of sexual desire disorders.
Prescription drugs are fairly common. Most people take them to treat various conditions, such as hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, chronic pain, and so on, but while most patients follow the doctor’s recommendations, 48 million people, ages 12 and older, use them for recreational purposes. The logic goes: if you buy them with a prescription and from a pharmacy, then these drugs are safer than illicit substances or alcohol and not at all addictive.
The reality is different.
The number of prescription drug abuse or misuse has increased dramatically in the past years. According to a report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, young adults (age 18 to 25) are more susceptible to becoming addicted to prescription drugs than any other age group. The institute also reported that in 2014, more than 1,700 young adults died from a prescription drug overdose, more than any other drug, including cocaine and heroin combined.
Although most people consider them safe, the reality is that prescription drug addiction will change a person’s life for the worse. Addicts struggle to maintain relationships, follow through with their social responsibilities or keep their jobs. In some instances, they can even put their lives in danger.
Prescription drug addiction is a serious medical condition that needs proper treatment in a specialized facility. It is nearly impossible for individuals to get sober on their own, as the withdrawal effects can be severe and difficult to overcome without proper help.
Do Drug Rehabs Offer Pain Management Services?
If a patient uses prescription drugs to manage chronic pain and becomes addicted to them, then their recovery process must also include alternative pain management, along with drug abuse treatment and other therapies.
Regardless of the program the patient follows to receive treatment, therapists can use an array of methods to manage pain symptoms:
- Meditation
- Massage therapy
- Yoga or other physical activities
Moreover, when doctors combine these methods with behavioral therapy, they enable patients to break free of their prescription drug dependency and manage their pain better during recovery.
What Types of Alternative Therapies Are Offered in Treatment?
Alternative therapies aim to address the patient as a whole, thus ensuring one of NIDA’s principles of effective treatment: to target a person’s entire needs, and not just the drug addiction.
The primary purpose of alternative therapies is to give patients the tools they need to manage their cravings and avoid relapses, a vital factor for those following an outpatient care program. These treatments help people acquire new life skills that allow them to focus on something other than their pain or the difficulties endured during treatment. Alternative therapies represent an essential element in the recovery process as they can help improve the patient’s mental health, ensuring a positive outcome.
The type of alternative treatment will depend on the patient’s medical needs as well as the facility. Some of the most common alternative therapy methods include:
- Adventure programs or physical sports
- Acupuncture
- Nutrition and health classes
- Art-based therapy like painting or theatre
Are There 12-Step Programs That Focus on Prescription Drug Addiction?
Because the 12-step program is one of the most common and effective forms of therapies, most rehab centers offer patients such treatment plans during recovery.
Unlike what you may think, a 12-step program isn’t limited to alcohol addiction, but it can help people struggling with various types of addiction, including prescription pills. The purpose of these treatment plans is to give patients the tools and confidence they need to retake control of their lives and focus on healing.
Moreover, those who have been in recovery for a long time can offer mentorship to other patients by sharing their personal experiences and success stories. Participants have to follow a comprehensive 12-step plan that aims to help them acknowledge their situation, ask for forgiveness, and work towards recovery.
What Are the Dangers of Long-Term Use of Prescription Drugs?
Mild side-effects of prescription drugs include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. In some cases, patients report having muscle spasm or twitches. But long-term use of these drugs can potentially have lasting negative side-effects, not only on a physical level but also from a mental and emotional perspective.
The way patients consume the drug can influence the severity of the health problems. For instance, individuals who crush and inject a tablet can develop long-term heart issues and are at a greater risk of suffering a heart attack than those that swallow the pills. Injections can also raise the possibility of infection, especially if the patient doesn’t use a sterile needle.
But perhaps the most concerning side effect of long-term use is that at some point patients begin to build a tolerance to the drug. When that happens, the body will require a higher dose to feel the same rewarding effects.
What Are the Options for Paying for Treatment?
Unfortunately, drug addiction treatment can come at a high cost. That’s perhaps one of the main reasons patients postpone their decision to seek treatment. Drug rehab centers accept insurance, but patients must check if their plan covers drug abuse treatment.
If a patient does not have insurance or their current plan does not cover for drug addiction treatment, other alternative methods of financing are available, such as personal loans or seeking referrals for low-cost treatment in some hospitals.
Some state and local governments offer support for individuals seeking drug addiction treatment so that people can get proper care in state-funded facilities. For instance, the Veterans Alcohol and Drug Dependence Rehabilitation Program offers therapies to veterans struggling with substance addiction including detox and psychological therapy.
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Prescription medication abuse can be a pathway down a dangerous road. Individuals struggling with such an addiction can feel helpless in the face of their dependence. Shame can also prevent them from seeking medical assistance or even talk to a loved one about their condition. But for any treatment to result in a positive outcome, it’s vital to decide to get sober today and turn to professional help.