Teen Drug Rehab
Teenagers may be involved with legal as well as illegal drugs in many ways. Drug experimentation is more common during teenage period. Drug addiction can cause:
- increased lethargy
- poor personal hygiene
- depression
- severe weight loss or gain
- mood swings
- hypersensitivity
- hostility to criticisms
It is very serious decision to get treatment for a child or adolescent. While making decision about choosing the treatment for drug abuse for children or adolescents, parents are encouraged to get consultation from the mental health professionals.
Parents and other family members must be informed consumers and should be involved in the recovery process of their child. Below are some important things that must be considered.
No single rehabilitation program is suitable for all teens.
It is very important to match the treatment settings, services and interventions to each person according to his particular problems and needs. It is very critical to returning with healthy functioning in the society, school, and family.
The effective treatments are provided to fulfill the requirements of an individual. Other associated psychological, cognitive, medical and social problem must be addressed.
According to the individual's problems and needs, the treatment will take time to recover the person. According to the many researches, the improvement in the person's activities begins at about 3 months into treatment. Depending on the person's willingness and commitments, the residential program will require 8 to 18 months to complete the treatment. Behavioral therapies and individual or group counseling are the critical components in the effective treatment.
In the therapy, teens are motivated to resist drug use, build skills, improve problem solving skills and replace drug using activities by rewarding and constructive behaviors. The behavioral therapy helps to increase ability of teen's to function in the home and community and also helps to improve interpersonal relationships.
Drug abusing or addicted individual can face both addictive as well as mental disorders. So the individual should be analyzed and treated for the co-occurrence of the other type of disorder.
The first stage of addiction treatment is medical detoxification. It maintains the acute physical symptoms of withdrawal associated with stopping drug use.
Addiction recovery can be a long term treatment and may require multiple episodes of treatment. Drug use can occur during or after the complete treatment episodes because of other chronic illnesses. So the addicted individual may need longer and multiple episodes of treatments.