I know that being abused as a child is part of why I struggle with addiction.  I’ve lived it.  But it’s all behind me, why talk about it?  Why look at it?  What would a luxury drug rehab do for me?

If I really tell the truth, the emotional abandonment I have felt as a child has left me with a sense of emptiness, a constant state of internal deprivation.  I know that I used because I was looking for something I lacked in my life.  Love?  Security?  How is a luxury drug rehab going to give that back to me?  And without some distraction, I can’t bear the pain within.  Drugs, alcohol…they work but never last. I need more, always more.  How is a luxury drug rehab program going to fill this void?

What you have to overcome each day is stunning.  You deserve an environment where you can receive nurturing, support, and healing that fits you and your lifestyle, not an institutional setting or 12-step approach. The finest luxury drug rehab will:

• be a place where you can feel safe and accepted enough to take chances, to find out that you can confront your childhood trauma and pain.
• provide counseling that reveals your strengths and capacity to live without abusing substances.
• provide the most upscale accommodations and comforts.
• serve the freshest organic food.
• replenish and strengthen you with natural healthcare, activity, massage, walks in the countryside with highly trained holistic therapists.
• provide you with the tools to see that you can be your own real and best self everywhere.
• replace struggling with drugs with your own focused goals and mission to take back out into the world.

Luxury drug rehab is a whole new perspective.  It means truly healing the very reasons for the drug abuse at the core.  Isn’t it time to feel deeply whole and well in your own skin?

This article was contributed by Deb Roberts, program administrator at The Exclusive Addiction Treatment Center.

Addiction Treatment Facilities for Co-Occurring Disorders

Recovering from an addiction of any kind is not a simple process, but it is made even more difficult when two or more addictions or disorders co-exist. A person who abuses cocaine may also abuse alcohol. An anorexic might abuse prescription drugs or even street drugs to suppress appetite. A veteran who got hooked on heroin might also suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Very frequently, substance abuse is connected with a psychological disorder, though it is often difficult to determine cause and effect. A person who smokes a lot of marijuana, for example, also suffers from depression. But is the drug usage a result of the depression or vice versa? Because these issues can be very complex, your best approach is to choose one of the many addiction treatment facilities that specialize in dealing with dual diagnoses.

Most often, the substance abuse must be tackled first, especially when heavy alcohol use or use of dangerous drugs has been the norm. In such cases, the client will most likely need to undergo detoxification to get the substance out of his or her system. This process must be medically managed in order to control unpleasant and even dangerous withdrawal symptoms. Once detox has been accomplished, counseling will focus on both the addiction and the co-occurring psychological problem.

If it is a case of being addicted to two substances, detox is even more important and must be handled very carefully. In some cases, measured amounts of the less dangerous substance will be administered while the patient undergoes detox for the more dangerous drug. In essence, the patient will have to be detoxed twice.

How to Find Addiction Treatment Facilities for Dual Diagnosis

At SoberRecovery.com, we maintain a list of reputable addiction treatment facilities that you can use as a trusted resource. Click on “Dual Diagnosis Programs” under the heading Special Focus Programs on our home page.

Locating Addiction Treatment Facilities

Addiction Treatment Facilities are great tools for the path to recovery.  These facilities allow the patient to be isolated from the temptations to use and they offer round the clock support as they recover.  Often times these facilities are used to detoxify the patient.  Meaning the patient is there long enough to have the drug come out of the system.  During this time (depending on the addiction) the withdrawal process can be quite traumatic.  This may include physical pain, insomnia, vomiting, fever, and recovery of suppressed memories.  It may take several days for the most severe withdrawal symptoms to recede.  It may take much longer for all symptoms to finally stop.

Find Addiction Treatment Facilities in Your City

To locate Addiction Treatment Facilities, the patient may talk to their doctor to find which local center will be best for them.  The doctor should consider the severity of the addiction, the likelihood of relapse and other factors in recommending a treatment center.

SoberRecovery.com can be used to help locate local facilities as well.  This site is designed to help the patient work through their addiction on the way to recovery.

Addiction Treatment Facilities offer another means of recovery when the addiction is too great to over come alone and being outside of a structured, managed program is not enough to keep the patient from going back to the substance abuse.  They offer the patient a chance to meet and work with others that are going through the same situation and together they can help each other.  These facilities also will have a staff of professionals to help the patients through the recovery process.