When you are struggling with a drug or alcohol addiction, the idea that there is any way out or any hope for recovery can seem like an all too distant and impossible dream. However, it does not have to be that way. You do not have to stay trapped under the vast weight of your drug or alcohol addiction. You can escape. Lewistown Drug Treatment Centers can help you to find an addiction treatment center that can help you escape out from under your addiction once and for all. Call us at (877) 804-1531 today to find out more about how you can break free from your addiction or to get the process started.
An addiction to drugs or alcohol is a confounding and confusing condition, both for the people struggling from the condition and those that have never had to deal with an addiction directly. Part of this confusion comes from the vast amount of misinformation out there about addiction and another part comes from the fact that addictions are extremely complicated and complex conditions.
When a person has a drug or alcohol addiction, they have a disease. The fact that an addiction is a disease means several things. First of all, because it is a disease, an addiction is not a lack of willpower nor is it a problem of a person's character. Instead, it is a physical and mental disease that has roots in the most basic chemistry of a person's brain.
The brain is an organ with a very delicate chemical balance and the chemical balance of the brain has a major impact on the function of every system and aspect of the body. When a person consumes an addictive drug or substance, that substance is carried to the brain where it interacts with those chemicals in the brain. The chemicals in the drug tell the brain to act in certain ways, disrupting the usual chemical balance within the brain.
Over time, with continued drug use and abuse, the delicate balance of chemicals inside of the brain will be affected in the long-term rather than just in the short-term. The brain will change its chemical balance to accommodate the presence of drugs or alcohol in the body and will not be able to chemically function without the substance present in the system.
This is the physical side of an addiction to drugs or alcohol. There is also an emotional or mental side of an addiction that comes from the feelings that drugs or alcohol cause when they enter the body. Effects like euphoria, for example, are extremely desirable and can hook a drug user long before these chemical changes occur in the body.
Given the fact that the brain chemistry changes because of an addiction to drugs or alcohol, it is easy to wonder whether or not recovery from an addiction is even possible. The good news, though, is that you can recover from a drug or alcohol addiction. Remember that an addiction is a disease. Because of this fact, recovery from an addiction requires the help of addiction treatment professionals. Lewiston Drug Treatment Centers can help connect you with those addiction treatment professionals that can help you recover from a drug or alcohol addiction.
Lewistown Drug Treatment Centers can help you find the best possible addiction treatment center for your addiction recovery process. We are a team of highly-qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced addiction treatment advisors that will work and advocate on your behalf to find you the best possible drug rehab center.
When you call us at (877) 804-1531, you will be connected immediately to a drug and alcohol addiction treatment advisor. That advisor will walk you through the free initial patient assessment process. The initial patient assessment is just a set of questions that your addiction treatment advisor will ask you to learn more about you and your addiction.
These will include the drug that you are addicted to, how long you have been addicted to the substance or substances, your medical insurance information, and other information about you and your life that will help to determine what type of addiction treatment center is right for you.
Of course, your personal preferences and opinions are also important. As such, if you want to find a drug rehab in Lewistown or a more specialized alcohol rehab in Lewistown, we can work on your behalf to find an option for you.
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