Inpatient Treatment is most often residential in that they require that the client live within the facility during treatment. Inpatient treatment centers and programs are a higher level of care than outpatient programs and provide more intensive services and treatment than lower levels of the care continuum.Alcohol Addiction
Alcohol Addiction is a chronic disease characterized by a strong craving for alcohol, a constant or periodic reliance on use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, the inability to limit drinking, physical illness when drinking is stopped, and the need for increasing amounts of alcohol to feel its effects.
Dual Diagnosis Treatment and Rehabilitation Overview » June 28th 2007
Dual diagnosis means that a person has two different
illnesses. Such illnesses include: 1)
severe/major mental illness and a substance disorder(s), 2) substance
disorder(s) and a personality disorder(s), 3) substance disorder(s) and a
personality disorder(s) and substance induced...tags: Dual Diagnosis, Drug Alcohol Rehab Program comments: 1
Choosing a Drug and Alcohol Rehab and Addiction Treatment Program » June 27th 2007
When you or someone that you love is suffering from drug
addiction and has considered treatment, the next step will be to choose a drug
rehab center. This will be one of the
most important and difficult decisions to make in your lifetime. Few of us know what to look for in a...tags: Drug Alcohol Rehab Program comments: 1
Inner Dialogues of Addiction, Treatment and Recovery IV » June 11th 2007
In our last entry we looked at how our addictive inner dialogs with specific absent others become repetitive such that the dynamic of our inner conversations themselves keep us trapped in our addictions. Underlying this dynamic is a closed feedback loop. It is this closed loop that keeps the...tags: Addiction Models comments: 1
Inner Dialogues of Addiction, Treatment and Recovery III » June 4th 2007
Recalling that addiction is clinically defined as repeating negative behaviors despite the consequences or the risks involved and recalling also our initial categorization of our inner listeners as Absent Others we now look at addictive dialogs from within this framework. Addictive...tags: Addiction Models comments: 0
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