| Most detox centers take about a week to administer | | | | to hurt themselves and those around them. It can get |
| their detoxification and it is done while the person is | | | | out of control. |
| medically supervised by a doctor. No one should try to | | | | The medical doctor will utilize two techniques that are |
| go through detox on their own because it can be a | | | | very different in executing the detox process. One of |
| frightening experience if you don't know what to | | | | those techniques is to gradually reduce the amount of |
| expect or what you are doing. In every rehabilitation | | | | alcohol the person consumes over a specific period of |
| center, there is a detox department because the | | | | time. The other technique is to provide medication to |
| addict has to first go through that process before | | | | the individual to prevent most of the symptoms of |
| even seeing a therapist. Many addicts fail to continue | | | | withdrawal. This is to make the process less painful to |
| with therapy once they have experienced the | | | | the addict. The first technique will take a longer period |
| withdrawal process, which can be quite painful; both | | | | of time as it will depend on how much alcohol the |
| mentally and physically. | | | | person consumes over time. Detox centers that |
| The process where a person goes though detox | | | | participate in both techniques find that the latter will |
| draws one conclusion and that is the person has been | | | | work much better to get the person into therapy and |
| dependent on some type of substance; whether | | | | much quicker towards recovery, which is what the |
| heavily or not. An addict who continues to abuse drugs | | | | individual wants. |
| or alcohol will find that their body tolerates the | | | | For an addict who consumes a lot of alcohol, the |
| consumption of the alcohol or drugs and so when it is | | | | detoxification phase can last for months especially if |
| time to detoxify the body, the sudden change results in | | | | the first technique is used. The medical doctor in all |
| various types of physical reactions to the detox | | | | detox centers can prevent all of this by stopping the |
| process. | | | | use of alcohol altogether and administering medication |
| Some people will become nauseous, display | | | | to the addict. However, this technique is much easier |
| convulsions, have headaches, tremors, and heightened | | | | for the person who is not a heavy alcoholic. |
| blood pressure. The person can be angry, or violent | | | | The addict is monitored closely during the detox phase |
| enough to sustain injuries. Even the doctor has to be | | | | and only when the dependence on alcohol has been |
| careful around this person. Once the person is not able | | | | removed does the practitioner release the patient to |
| to feed the addiction anymore, anyone in his or her | | | | the next phase, which is the therapeutic phase. |
| path becomes the enemy. This is why it will take a | | | | The addict who has been heavily indulged in alcohol will |
| professional at one of the best detox centers to | | | | find it much harder to give up the bad habit. With |
| administer care during the withdrawal phase. It may | | | | therapy, it is possible; but the person has to remain |
| even take restraining the person because they will try | | | | determined to succeed. |