Addiction Treatment Program: Cycles of PAW

While participating in the outpatient addiction treatment program at The Right Step, you will have the opportunity to learn a great deal about post-acute withdrawal, which is also called PAW. There are a wide variety of symptoms that can affect the lives of those with PAW, even sometimes years after they have stopped active drug abuse and active alcoholism.

By this point in your addiction treatment session, you will have learned about the potential cycles of PAW, as well as the many reasons why it is important to recognize the symptoms of PAW in order to know how to cope with life when or if you do experience these symptoms.

You will also have learned that many of the PAW symptoms do diminish and go away entirely over time and that with continued abstinence and participation in an addiction recovery program, your potential for overcoming the difficulties brought on by post acute withdrawal can significantly increase.

The Need for Abstinence in Addiction Recovery

Experience and caring addiction recovery professionals will guide you through the material presented in this addiction treatment session covering the subject of PAW and you will learn more thoroughly how recovery from the damage caused by the addiction requires abstinence.

However, the challenge here is that the damage itself interferes with the ability to abstain. This is the paradox of recovery. Use of alcohol or other drugs can temporarily reverse the symptoms of the damage. If alcoholics drink, or drug addicts use, they will think clearly for a little while, be able to have normal feelings and emotions for a little while and feel healthy for a little while.

Unfortunately, this addiction disease will eventually trigger a loss of control that will again destroy these functions. As you continue in this addiction recovery discussion, you will learn that it is for this reason that it is necessary to do everything possible to reduce the symptoms of PAW.

It is important to understand PAW and to recognize that you are not incompetent and you are not going crazy. Because post-acute withdrawal symptoms are stress sensitive, you need to learn about PAW and methods of control when stress levels are low in order to be able to prevent the symptoms or to manage them when they occur.

Addiction Treatment Locations

Residents of local Texas and New Mexico cities including Missouri City TX, Palacios TX, Pasadena TX, Port Aransas TX, Port Arthur TX and Port Isabel TX often receive treatment for their addiction to drugs or alcohol through the Intensive Outpatient Programs at one of 20 convenient Right Step locations.

Outpatient Alcohol Treatment and Outpatient Drug Treatment programs are offered in Austin TX, Baytown TX, Beaumont TX, Conroe TX, Dallas TX, Euless TX, The Woodlands TX, San Antonio TX, Plano TX, Houston TX, Clear Lake TX, Ft. Bend TX, Pasadena 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.