Meth Addiction Treatment

When you or someone you care about is ready to enter meth addiction treatment, it is recommended that you choose a treatment program that does not base its treatment on the disease concept of addiction. This is because rehabs developed around the disease concept rob addicts of their own inner power and strength. They are told they will always have the disease of œaddiction and that they must live life œone day at a time.

Rest assured there is another way to recover from meth addiction. Successful meth addiction treatment exists that is not based on the common disease concept of addiction. This type of treatment not only empowers the addict but teaches them how to make healthy choices and how to handle life's problems without meth. Recovering addicts in this type of treatment take responsibility for their actions, their drug addiction, and their recovery.

Those with years of heavy meth addiction may have a more difficult time when it comes to ending their addiction patterns. The difficulty may lie in the fact that their lifestyle has consisted of drug use for such an extended period of time that it may be difficult to imagine living without it. This type of individual may greatly benefit from attending a long term inpatient meth addiction treatment program. This type of treatment generally involves a period of three to six months so as to provide the individual with an extensive change of environment as well as care twenty-four hours a day. Research has proven that this is the most successful type of treatment for those who have a history of heavy drug addiction spanning over many years.

Meth addiction treatment is a multi-phase, multi-faceted, long term process. Detoxification is the first step in addiction recovery. Once the person is safely detoxed from meth they often feel:

• A reduction or elimination of drug cravings
• A reduction or elimination of many symptoms associated with drug addiction. These can include depression, irritability, and fatigue
• The ability to think more clearly
• Improved memory and attention span
• Increased energy
• Increased sense of well being
• Enthusiasm toward life 

Detoxification is only the first step on the road of meth addiction treatment. Physical detoxification alone is not sufficient to change the patterns of a meth addict. To make a successful recovery, the addict needs to develop new tools in order to deal with situations and problems which arise in their daily lives. Factors such as encountering someone from their days of using, returning to the same environment and places, or even small things such as smells and objects trigger memories which can create psychological stress on the recovering individual. This can hinder the addict's goal of complete recovery, thus not allowing them to permanently regain control of their life.

A graduate of a successful meth addiction treatment program is someone:

• Who knows they are, in fact, capable of living a drug-free life thereafter
• Who has improved their ability to learn and thus can accept new ideas on how to change life for the better
• Who has personally absorbed the fundamentals of ethics and morality well enough they can be productive and contributive to society and will have no further troubles with the justice system
• Who knows how to solve the problems of life in a rational manner to the best of their ability, without the use of mind-altering drugs

Graduates of successful meth addiction treatment programs are expected, no matter the severity of their earlier life experience, to achieve and to live a stable, drug-free, and ethical life. In successful drug rehabs, there is no such thing as a "victim" way of thinking. Even if life has dealt someone a bad hand of cards, the road out is through personal recognition of responsibility for one's own condition.

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