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Call Now (844) 695-0083What is Alcohol Detox Like?
Alcohol or drug detox is the first crucial step in overcoming your substance use disorders. Before you are able to address the deep seeded emotions and traumas that have influenced your addictive behavior, it is important to overcome the physical dependence to drug and alcohol with the support of a medical detox program. Throughout your medical detox program, you will be monitored by licensed RN’s and doctors that will be supervising and assessing your progress through alcohol and drug detox to ensure that you can move through your withdrawal symptoms safely while maintaining a level of comfortability. If you are presenting with severe withdrawal symptoms that can become unpleasant or life threatening, medication assisted treatment can be offered where you will receive specific medications that will help to reduce the severity of withdrawal symptoms and minimize any significant alcohol cravings.
What To Expect During Detox?
Before you can begin your alcohol or drug detox program, you will meet with one of our addiction counselors that will gain an understanding of your history with alcohol and drug addiction. Knowing your specific history with alcohol or drug abuse, any co occurring disorders of mental health disorders, and already existing medical conditions. This will allow our medical team and addiction therapists to create personalized treatment plans that will ensure that your physical, emotional, and mental health needs are maintained and addressed throughout your treatment programs.
How Long is Detox?
As you prepare to address your addiction to drugs and alcohol through detox treatment programs, you will want to know how long your detox program will last for. While your alcohol addiction is unique to you your detox and treatment programs will reflect the same. Your time in alcohol or drug detox will depend on your specific history with alcohol and drug abuse including the length of time that you have been engaging in substance abuse, the amount in which you consume, and how often you partake in alcohol and drug abuse. The more severe your substance use disorders are, the longer your detox treatment programs will last. As you begin to overcome your alcohol withdrawal symptoms and start to feel healthier and stronger, you will be ready to transition in your drug and alcohol treatment program.
Symptoms of Alcohol Detox
Each person in alcohol detox will experience their own symptoms of withdrawal that are specific to your physical health and dependence to alcohol. Some of the common withdrawal symptoms that are felt by individuals in detox are:
- Anxiety
- Headaches
- Depression
- Inability to sleep, broken sleep patterns or insomnia
- Extreme fatigue
- Severe mood swings
- Irregular heart rate or experiencing heart palpitations
- Elevated blood pressure
- Increased or rapid heart rate
- Hyperthermia
- Rapid unusual breathing
- Auditory, visual, or tactile hallucinations
- Hand or body tremors or shakes
- Seizures or convulsions
No matter what withdrawal symptoms you are experiencing with our detox center, our team of expert medical professionals will be by your side every step of the way to ensure that you are able to support you in overcoming your physical dependence on drugs and alcohol.
Acute Detox
Acute detox is characterized by an individual that is going through an alcohol or drug detox that is experiencing life threatening or dangerous side effects or withdrawal symptoms. For individuals going through an acute detox, it is crucial that you attend a medical detox program that is monitored by medical professionals to ensure your safety and severe withdrawal symptoms are maintained. Patients in an acute detox are at high risk for experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms such as delirium tremens that can cause potentially fatal side effects if not treated by medical professionals within a medical detox.
Sub-Acute Detox
For Bucks County residents that are experiencing mild to moderate withdrawal symptoms, choosing a sub acute detox program is often the most appropriate treatment program. This method of detox treatment plans will support patients in their addiction recovery by ongoing support of medical professionals and addiction therapists without needing the intensive supervision of an acute detox. These detox treatment plans can often be completed in an outpatient alcohol rehab in Bucks County format where you can attend and check in with the recovery center each day while being able to return home each night throughout your treatment programs.
Why Choose DayBreak for Alcohol Detox
DayBreak is the top choice for detox center in Bucks County for the personalized approach to addiction recovery and treatment plans that is given to each patient. Our team is highly trained to support patients in having a safe and effective detox in our sober living housing in Bucks County while ensuring that your time in our recovery center is met with the comforts and luxuries of home. Our treatment center invites patients to enjoy the amenities offered within our recovery center that will support you in a holistic healing journey. Contact DayBreak today to have any questions answered about your alcohol detox program and take the first step on the road to addiction recovery today.