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Recommend by Sharon Osbourne & Seen on The Sharon Osbourne Show
Talk
show personality Sharon Osbourne chose California Treatment Centers
as the drug treatment authority qualified to rescue long-time Oxycontin
and Codeine abuser, Lavina. She was secretly suffering from 6 years of
drug addiction. The
Sharon Osbourne Show recap.
California Treatment Centers
Drug Treatment Programs & Rehabilitation
Our drug treatment programs, alcohol, detox,
and rehabilitation programs are here to return you to a healthy and sober
lifestyle. People stop using drugs and stop using alcohol, but without
personal development that is ongoing as a lifestyle, these periods turn
out to be only temporary. These are "dry" periods form drug or alcohol
abuse. They always lead back to another spree; therefore, you can see
the downward cycle of drug or alcohol addiction. Every addict attempts
to change his life from time to time. But unless there is real emotional,
mental, and maturity development relapse is inevitable. Staying clean
for a while is a good thing, but staying sober forever is a great thing.
Drug & Alcohol Addicts Can Change
The drug treatment and detox programs
we offer at CTC is a "blended" environment. In treatment, critical information
is at hand, and delivering it the best way is a skill. For success, a
client needs to absorb these new concepts, practice them, and eventually
"actualize" them into his personal lifestyle. When a person seeks to change
and rehabilitate himself, that change that he is successful with is what
he has practiced the most. You become what you do. The cost of doing better
is practice.
Our Drug Treatment & Alcohol Programs - Healthy Direction
"Program" means what philosophy or belief you live by. CTC's drug
program of recovery for the new client is a healthy "direction" that
is inspired by others, roll modeled by others, and their successes create
a powerful influence on the new person.
CTC: Interest and Motivation!
The programs of California Treatment Centers, intertwines "learning and
developing" with an environment that is physically safe, clean and comfortable.
Social development is critical to overcoming addiction. "Getting out of
self" is a watchword in treatment that means a person has begun to emerge
from himself and recognize his place with others. When a person stops
using drugs, and starts the process of self-improvement, he feels better
about himself and therefore mixes better with his fellows. Self-improvement
feels good, positive relationships with others feel good, and now you
can see "the upward cycle" of an addict climbing out of his disease.
California Treatment Centers treats all sides of the disease of addiction
and alcoholism and therefore, gives a client his/her best chance of staying
sober, growing, and living well. Through drug treatment and rehabilitation,
you can have your life back.
Methamphetamines
Methamphetamine is at the front edge of the drug plaque that is sweeping
through schools, all economic classes, is indiscriminate of cultures and
race, and now crosses 3 generations of Americans—and there is no
proof that it is subsiding yet! Meth is highly addictive, inexpensive,
easily accessible, and it can be manufactured in any home down the street.
It is a powerful stimulant that produces euphoria, and when all these
factors are combined, we have reason for an epidemic. Drug labs make the
drug easily with over-the-counter ingredients, and hotels and even cars
or vans can become a convenient manufacturing location.
Meth is a highly addictive stimulant that affects the central nervous
system and it is classified as a Schedule II controlled substance, which
is illegal to possess without a prescription. It increases heart rate
and pulse, makes a person highly energetic, more attentive, and effects
neurotransmitters in the brain that releases dopamine and norepinephrine
producing a euphoric rush. The street names for Methamphetamines are speed,
meth, chalk, Ice, crystal, crack, and glass. It is a bitter tasting crystalline
power, white and odorless. Meth is a takeoff of the older drug amphetamine,
and it affects the nervous system much more aggressively.
Delivery Systems:
Users have found many ways to ingest the drug, therefore adjusting their
high. Meth can be snorted, taken orally, smoked or injected.
Short and long term affects:
The way methamphetamines are used will decide the affect. Smoking it
produces a ‘flash’ or rush that only lasts a short while,
but produces a very intense euphoria. It is a rushing sensation that heightens
all senses and gives one the feeling of ecstatic pleasure that can last
a few minutes, and then the user begins to come down. On the other hand,
snorting or ingesting the drug will produce pleasure not as intense, but
will last for hours and sometimes up to half a day.
User Patterns
Chronic drug seeking and drug using patterns lead to addiction. Addiction
is compulsive, and once a person is dependent on the drug, his priority
before anything else, family, friends, employment, etc., is getting more.
Short-term use is not a difficult withdrawal situation, but should be
in the presence of a detox facility. Long-term use can cause pathological
difficulties including schizophrenia, hallucinations, and paranoia. The
recommended detoxification here is in a medical facility under a doctors
care.
Prescription Drugs
Prescription medications that can be misused for the condition in which
they were originally prescribed are considered Scheduled Drugs, I-IV.
There are basically three categories of prescription medications.
• Opioids
• CNS Depressants
• Stimulants
These three categories are the ones most commonly abused. Sometimes the
user, under a doctor’s orders, will discover the euphoric nature
of these medications. Prescription dosage, if followed precisely, rarely
leads to addiction. However, if these medications are taken in dosages
above prescription recommendation, they can quickly lead to addiction.
These Scheduled Drugs are all high potent medications and caution should
be taken even at prescription levels. Prescription drugs have a very high
addiction rate, and many people in drug rehab today began innocently enough
following a doctor’s orders. Because of their tolerance proprieties,
in other words, the user has to take higher doses to achieve the initial
euphoric feelings.
Opioids
Opioids are prescribed because of their effective analgesic and pain
relieving properties. They are usually referred to as narcotics. Some
of the most common are morphine, codeine, oxycodone, darvon, vicodin,
dilaudid, and demerol. These drugs produce sensations of well being, and
euphoria. The legs and arms begin to feel heavy, a warm flush rushes through
the face, and normal brain reception to pain is blocked.
Withdrawal Symptoms:
Long-term abuse of narcotics is usually a long-term detox process. It
takes a long time for this drug to leave the neuro-receptors of the brain,
and symptoms of restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea,
vomiting, and cold flashes are occurring at the same time.
CNS Depressants
The drugs come in two groups:
• Barbiturates (Mephobarbital, Pentobarbital Sodium)
• Benzodiazepines—diazepam (Valium), chlordiazepoxide HCI
(Librium)
These medications have a more sedating effect and are used to treat anxiety,
tension and sleep disorders. Euphoria is moderately present and the tolerance
level of an individual increases with use. These medications are addictive
if used for prolonged periods of time.
Withdrawal:
These medications slow the brain’s activity and after long-term
abuse, if the drug is discontinued completely, the brain rebounds to the
point that seizures can occur. The withdrawal of these classes of medications
should require a doctor’s care.
Stimulants
Stimulants cause an increase in alertness, attention, and energy. Some
of these drugs are methylphenidate (Ritalin), and dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine).
These medications are very addictive because they produce a sensation
of euphoria in conjunction with a feeling of personal power. These have
chemical properties similar to norepinephrine and dopamine. Stimulants
increase the levels of these chemicals in the brain and body which increase
blood pressure, heart rate and blood glucose, and opens up the pathways
of the respiratory system.
Withdrawal:
There are no medications designed for detoxing stimulants. Sometimes antidepressants
are administered to help a person during the emotional low period when
experiences coming off long-term usage of stimulants. Treatment after
detoxing these medications should include a behavior therapy. Cognitive-behavior
therapy combined with a recovery support group is most effective.
Heroin
Heroin is an odorless, bitter tasting substance, that comes in three forms:
White powder, brown powder, and black tar. It typically has been injected
intravenously, but because of recent contagious diseases, for example,
HIV, and Hepatitis B & C, it is now becoming more common for users
to smoke, or snort it. Heroin is a powerful narcotic processed from morphine
and is a Schedule I controlled drug. It is illegal to possess it without
a doctor’s order. Heroin is a highly potent drug, and very addictive,
because it delivers a sedate-like, powerful, euphoric rush. High doses
of heroin make the arms and legs feel heavy and there is an overall sensation
of well being.
Withdrawal
When abusers stop abruptly, heroin withdrawal symptoms usually begin to
occur after 3-4 hours of the last dose. It produces drug craving, muscle
and bone pain, insomnia, vomiting and diarrhea, cold flashes and severe
flu-like symptoms. Withdrawal from heroin peaks between 48 and 72 hours
and subsides after about a week. Withdrawal complications are usually
a lot less severe than alcohol or depressant drugs.
Treatment:
The ‘euphoric recall’ syndrome makes it a very hard addiction
to overcome. Synthetic opiates are frequently used to treat a heroin addict
when trying to recover from addiction. These are used in conjunction with
psychosocial counseling, peer level groups and twelve step support systems.
Naltrexone, Naloxone, LAAM (levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol), and bupronorphine
are medications designed to help the detoxification of heroin and eventual
recovery. These medications either inhibit opiate receptors and lessen
the drug’s potency, or, as in methadone, a synthetic opiate, create
a mild morphine-like effect which when monitored in a recovery environment
can gradually be decreased until a person is off completely.
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