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The Signs and Stages of Cocaine Addiction

Written by admin on January 24, 2022. Posted in Drug Rehab.

Are you worried that you or someone you love is addicted to cocaine? So often, those struggling with addiction are the last to realize that they are, indeed, struggling with addiction. If you’ve tried to stop using cocaine and can’t (or, alternatively, haven’t even been able to cut down on your abuse) then you need help. That said, there are plenty of other signs that you or someone you love is dealing with cocaine addiction. Here at the Believe Detox Center, we can help.

Some Signs of Cocaine Addiction

If you’re using cocaine and find that you’re overly sensitive to sound, light, or touch, then you may be addicted. Indeed, many of these signs, in isolation, aren’t necessarily indicative of an addiction. However, if you or someone you love exhibits more than a couple of the behaviors listed, then you or someone you love is most likely addicted. If your personal hygiene has decreased or you just don’t care anymore, you find yourself withdrawing from sober people in your life, indeed, if you withdraw from loved ones entirely. Perhaps you’ve been late to work due to your cocaine abuse or just not going. Maybe you’re selling your private property for cocaine or even stealing property. If you have a problem, there is help.

What an Addiction to Cocaine Can Do to Your Mind and Life

More than just affecting your life, cocaine can affect your physical body, too. For example, you may find that you’re unable to stop tapping, shaking, twitching, and similar behaviors. Perhaps your appetite has all but disappeared, yet your heartbeat feels faster than ever. Many addicted to cocaine exhibit excessive sweating, with an increase in blood pressure and body temperature. You may even experience impotence as well. If you’ve been using cocaine, stopping is paramount to your good health.

The Four Stages of Addiction to Cocaine (or Any Drug)

For so many, cocaine abuse (or really, abusing any drug) doesn’t start with the addiction. Rather, it starts with experimentation. All you’re doing is experimenting with a drug, just seeing if it feels good. Then, most tend to use it socially, around friends or others who abuse the drug. After that, maybe they end up using it themselves, alone, trying to get that same high. From there, it’s a slippery slope to risky use and abuse, developing an addiction and/or chemical dependency that can be essentially impossible to shake without the help of medical professionals.

Drug Rehab Centers in Los Angeles that can Help

When you’re trying to stop using cocaine, it may feel like there’s nothing you can do, that you’re always “swimming upstream” in terms of the drug. However, that’s not the case. Whether you’ve been dealing with addiction for a long time or it’s a recent development, we can help. When you arrive at Believe Detox Center, we’ll put together a comprehensive treatment plan to meet your exact, specific needs. To learn more about how we can help or to start the process, call our drug rehab centers in Los Angeles at (818) 308-3118.

How Does Healing Recovery Help During Drug and Alcohol Detox?

Written by admin on January 17, 2022. Posted in Alcohol Detox Programs.

Are you in the process of researching rehab and detox treatment facilities for yourself or someone that you love? Have you read about “healing recovery” and aren’t sure exactly what it means? At first glance, a phrase like that might seem like simple buzzwords, a marketing tactic, something that could be responded to with: “wouldn’t everyone want a recovery that heals?” But, here at Believe Detox Center, it’s so much more than that. We aim to heal the patient’s body and mind, their whole person.

Healing Recovery with a Focus on Nutrition

If you’ve been struggling with addiction, it takes a toll on your physical health. Addiction does so in ways that are visible and obvious as well as those that might not necessarily be so readily observed. One insidious way it inflicts harm: nutrition. After all, if you’re in the throes of addiction, odds are low that you’re putting good food and nutrients into your body. That’s why we put such a premium on healthy eating and nutrition here at Believe Detox Center. For one, we have a top-of-the-line, experienced gourmet chef who can put together tremendously nutritional dishes you can make when you leave here, too.

What Nutrition Can Do for You

For so many battling addictions, it’s the one way to make yourself feel good. There are so many awful, negative side effects, yet at the moment that you abuse a toxic substance, you feel better than you did at the moment before (even if it is, indeed, just for a moment). Learning to eat healthy, to eat right, can do more than just improve your physical health while extending your life (both of which it can absolutely do), it can also help you to find a new way to feel good, to make yourself feel good in a positive, healthy way.

Healing the Body as Well as the Mind

Many eat unhealthy foods, those high in sugar, caffeine, white flour, and other substances that over time can harm the body. They affect the same parts of your brain that drugs and alcohol do. They can unbalance your dopamine levels, potentially worsening your cravings for alcohol and drugs. Thus by eating healthier, you can give yourself a better chance to avoid relapse, to be able to lead a healthy and sober life once you leave Believe Detox Center.

The Healing Can Start Today

Now, obviously, you aren’t going to be able to abstain from drugs and alcohol by simply eating healthy or anything of that nature. But, every little bit really does help. Improving your physical and mental health can go a long, long way towards putting you more in control of your life, thus reducing your body and mind’s need for drugs and alcohol. Here at Believe Detox Center, healing nutrition is just part of what we offer, beyond detox, therapy, and more in a gorgeous, comforting environment. To start the process or learn more, call us at (818) 308-3118.

Understanding Holistic Drug Rehab

Written by admin on December 30, 2021. Posted in Drug Rehab, Holistic Drug Rehab.

Have you been looking for a drug rehab that isn’t like the rest? When you research drug rehab facilities online, does it feel like they’re all more or less the same? The truth is that your situation, your addiction, what you’re going through, isn’t exactly like what anyone else ever has. So, you need a unique treatment, one that’s specifically designed for what you need. That’s where our holistic drug rehab comes in. Here at Believe Detox Center, we can put together a one-of-a-kind treatment that’s made for you and you alone.

What Holistic Drug Rehab Tends to Focus on

Often, we’re asked some variation of “what does holistic mean in the context of rehab?” Simply put, it just means that you’re getting a personalized treatment that is, in many ways, “non-medical.” That’s not to say that it’s “non-proven” or anything of that nature. These methods have been around for many years and we’ve utilized them to help so many to get the help that they need. Rather, it means that we treat the body as well as the mind, dealing with addiction symptoms that are physical and mental in addition to imbalances in terms of nutrition and your emotional health as well.

Goals of This Treatment

For one, this treatment is about discovering what the underlying causes of your addiction are. We believe that our goal isn’t to treat “addiction,” per se. Rather, the addiction itself is a symptom. Specifically, it’s a symptom of some underlying trauma, some underlying cause. Thus, if we can work with you to find that cause, then, over time, you can overcome that and, in turn, overcome the addiction. Along the way, this treatment will also help you to become more physically fit and find ways of making yourself feel good that are healthy, safe, and positive – the opposite of misusing substances.

What Your Holistic Treatment May Consist Of

Yoga is a great example of holistic treatment. It makes you feel great physically, helps you to develop self-discipline as well as improve your fitness, all while improving your mind and your emotional health, too. Additionally, we can work with you on establishing proper nutrition, too. So many who have struggled with addiction may not be in the best of health, thus finding a way to eat right for the long term can do wonders. Of course, as with all of our treatment modalities, counseling, one on one therapy and group therapy can be a part of it as well.

Different Holistic Addiction Therapies

Another very effective holistic treatment: meditation. It can help you to be fully present in the moment so that you’re right there with your body right now, and not dealing with so many distractions, overwhelmed by your emotions, and the like. This can help to reduce stress over time, thus making it less likely that you’ll give in to cravings, strong emotions, and other triggers that could cause you to abuse substances.

More Than Holistic Treatment

Holistic therapy is one of the ways that we can help people just like you to receive help for their addictions. However, it’s just one of the ways that we can do so. When you arrive at the Believe Detox Center, our medical professionals will give you a thorough, comprehensive evaluation. From there, they’ll determine the best way to meet your needs through a treatment plan. We understand that reaching out to a facility like ours may be one of the most difficult things that a person ever does. To start the process or just to learn more, you can reach us at (818) 308-3118.

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