Understanding Addiction: Can it Happen to You – Outpatient Program
Progressing in Session Three of addiction treatment in the Outpatient Program at The Right Step, you will begin to learn more thoroughly about the factors involved in developing an addiction disease. As you will have come to understand at this point in your group treatment process, substance abuse addiction is a brain disease with a variety of factors influencing whether or not an individual has a predisposition to addiction that could speed up the development of this disease.
These developmental factors include psychological and neurochemical factors, genetic history, as well as environmental and social conditions. As you will have learned in previous Outpatient Sessions, feelings such as normalcy, pain and euphoria are all involved and affected during the course of substance abuse addiction.
One who may be predisposed to addiction will often remember their first dose of drugs or alcohol as having created a sense of normalcy, alleviating shyness, depression and anxiety. The positive nature of this initial experience can reinforce the desire for continued substance abuse.
Also covered in this session:
Alcohol and Addiction – Part 1
Alcohol and Addiction: Widespread Health Concern - Part 2
Alcohol and Addiction: The Cost of Substance Abuse - Part 3
Alcohol and Addiction: Identifying Addiction - Part 4
Alcohol and Addiction: Will Power - Part 5
Alcohol and Addiction: Is Addiction a Moral Issue - Part 6
Understanding Addiction- Part 7
Understanding Addiction & Progression - Part 8
Understanding Addiction: Chemicals in the Brain - Part 10
Dopamine Levels: Alcohol and Addiction - Part 11
Brain Disease: Alcohol and Addiction - Part 12
Alcohol and Addiction: Misconceptions and Treatment - Part 13
Substance Abuse Addiction: Factors Increasing Potential Addiction Issues
Exposures and circumstances surrounding the individual alcohol or drug user may also contribute to the continuation of substance abuse. These include the availability of drugs or alcohol, the typical cultural usage of these substances, including family environment, as well as what substances are and are not legal for use in their regional location. The specific psychological traits of an individual are frequently partnered with the likelihood of developing an addiction to alcohol and drugs.
Learning more about the genetic trait markers involved, you will discover that certain factors in both the current family lifestyles and in the history of the addicted individual’s relatives, statistically increases the possibility that drug and alcohol use turns into a substance abuse addiction.
Continuing forward in your addiction treatment, you may better comprehend the ways that addiction is a brain disease and how the chemicals in the brain are affected. Included in this education will be information about the pleasure centers of the brain and the Reward Deficiency Syndrome.
Addiction Treatment Locations
Residents of local Texas and New Mexico cities including Brownsville, Harlingen, McAllen, Eagle Pass 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.
Additional Addiction Treatment Information:
Alcohol and Addiction: Identifying Addiction
Alcohol and Addiction: Is Addiction a Moral Issue
Alcohol and Addiction: The Cost of Substance Abuse
