Disease of Addiction: Substance Abuse Withdrawal and Pain
While attending the eight-week Outpatient Program at The Right Step, you will continue your addiction treatment through a series of Sessions. Session Two details information about the disease concept of addiction; why it is considered a disease by medical professionals and the consequential phases that substance abuse addiction involves.
Once you have learned about the phases leading up to emotional pain, rationalization and increased tolerance for drugs and alcohol, you will then learn about the stage wherein the individual starts using these substances to escape a feeling of pain rather than to achieve a euphoric feeling.
Also covered in this session:
Disease Concept of Addiction - Part 1
Addiction Therapy: Disease Traits - Part2
Disease of Addiction: Initial Stages - Part 3
Disease of Addiction: Losing Control - Part 4
Brain Neurotransmitters: Phases of Addiction - Part 6
Biology of Addiction: Adults and Adolescents - Part 7
The drugs or alcohol are no longer merely a social lubricant at this point, but rather an individual will start drinking or using drugs while in the pain end of the continuum. Substance abuse during this phase is initiated to create temporary feelings of being emotionally normal.
Physical Addiction to Drugs and Alcohol
However, once sober, more emotional pain is experienced at a level that was not previously known to the sufferer of substance abuse addiction. The new experiences that you will have already learned about in Session Two of your Outpatient Treatment, such as blackouts, may increase in frequency. At this stage of the disease, physical addiction to drugs or alcohol can occur.
Because the negative feelings are locked behind walls of rationalization, impaired thinking, or denial, the person begins to project their emotional pain. This predictable characteristic of the addiction disease includes blaming other people and dumping the bad feelings involved in addiction onto others.
Increased substance abuse, resulting from developing a higher tolerance, also may have lead to the physical addiction involved in this stage. At this point, physical withdrawal symptoms can occur if the individual ceases to use drugs or alcohol.
Continuing in Session Two of your addiction treatment at The Right Step, you will learn more about addiction biology and the affect the disease of addiction has on the brain.
Addiction Treatment Locations
Residents of local Texas and New Mexico cities including Corpus Christi, El Campo, Humble, Lake Jackson, La Porte and Albuquerque often receive treatment for their addiction to drugs or alcohol through the Outpatient Programs at one of 20 convenient Right Step locations.
Out patient Alcohol Treatment and Outpatient Drug Treatment programs are offered in Austin TX, Baytown TX, Beaumont TX, Conroe TX, Dallas TX, Euless TX, Plano TX, Houston TX, Clear Lake TX, Ft. Bend TX, Pasadena TX, The Woodlands TX, San Antonio TX, Wimberley TX, Albuquerque NM.
Residential Treatment centers in DFW, Houston and Austin are also provided for recovery from addiction disease, attracting individuals from Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Arizona and other areas of the United States to participate in recovery programs at The Right Step.
Addiction Treatment - Additional Information:
Addiction Therapy: Disease Traits
Disease of Addiction: Initial Stages
Biology of Addiction: Adults and Adolescents
