Rehabilitation of alcoholics: program, centers

What is alcoholism? Illness or licentiousness? Everyone thinks differently. It turns out that both are right. With alcoholism, both painful pathological changes occur, and an incorrect lifestyle is also present. An alcohol-dependent person is not capable of social interaction; he loses professional and simple everyday skills. Rehabilitation centers can help cope with these problems.

The origin of the social rehabilitation of alcoholics

In the nineties of the XX century, the first rehabilitation centers began to open in different regions of Russia. Just at this time, the use of drugs and alcohol increased among young people. Centers were opened by people with addiction and their relatives.

They tried to cope with problems on their own, uniting in groups. The Gospel churches came to the aid of people in need in Russia. They made voluntary donations and taught the employees of the centers the basics of the legislative framework in the non-profit sector. The formed rehabilitation centers established contacts with various public organizations, searched for charitable foundations and developed productively.

Center selection

Experts assure that patients with alcoholism recover faster when help is provided in places quite remote from permanent residence. When choosing a center, you need to pay attention to the following:

1. Qualification of doctors and staff. Patients recover much faster when they are handled by professionals who know their job well.
2. The comfort of living. Well-organized life, comfortable living conditions do not distract the patient from the main activities designed to restore health and personality.
3. The treatment is paid or free. Often, people with alcoholism do not have enough money to pay for rehabilitation services provided. You can recover for free at alcoholic rehabilitation centers organized by churches.

Rehabilitation course

For the treatment of alcohol dependence, a whole range of measures is needed to return the patient to normal life.

The rehabilitation course consists of three main areas:

• Health recovery. With alcoholism, a malfunction of the entire human body occurs, diseases of individual organs appear. Only in rehabilitation medical centers, drug treatment departments and clinics can one improve health and undergo coding to prevent relapse.
• Psychological help. The psychologist helps the patient begin a new life without alcohol: set new goals, solve problems with a sober mind, discover all kinds of talents, find new sources for pleasure.
• Social adaptation. A person who has undergone a course of rehabilitation for alcoholics needs help finding a job or study. He needs to change his social circle, learn to get along with others, to restore his reputation. An important role is played by the support and assistance of family and loved ones.

What do rehabilitation centers do

To completely cure the patient from alcoholism - this means achieving an absolute rejection of alcohol. It is necessary to teach a person to overcome problems and various conflict situations without alcohol. Doctors of rehabilitation centers just conduct etiotropic treatment, with which the cause of the disease is eliminated. Only by eliminating the cause, you can return the alcoholic to normal life. Alcoholics rehabilitation centers deal with these issues.

The most famous rehabilitation programs

There are many methods and programs for the treatment of alcoholism, the most famous are the following:

• The 12 Steps program is considered the most effective and is used in many rehabilitation centers. During the classes, patients are taught to recognize the problem of their condition, overestimate the values ​​of life and behavior, find the causes of addiction and learn how to gradually eliminate them, the ability to analyze, increase spiritual and personal growth, and ways of rehabilitation among others.
• The program of rehabilitation of alcoholics by the Shichko method includes a set of actions that are aimed at understanding the problem and getting rid of it, help prevent relapses, and get satisfaction from life. The program does not involve specialists and expensive drugs. It is performed by the patient on his own, therefore, for successful consequences, a strong human will is needed.
• Group psychotherapy. Alcohol-dependent people are grouped in groups of 10 to 25 people, with a duration of approximately one and a half hours.
  
  Skills trainings, encounters, clashes are organized under the guidance of a psychotherapist or professional psychologist. Like-minded people tell life situations, contact each other, supporting or condemning their comrades. Classes provide an opportunity to look at yourself through the eyes of others, find out answers to questions, stop denying the presence of a disease and figure out how to get rid of it.
• Family psychotherapy is the youngest technique used to rehabilitate alcoholics. It began to be used in the 60s of the twentieth century, and in Russia in the mid-90s. Family members of an alcoholic always somehow influence him. Typically, the relationship in them is far from ideal, so psychologists conduct sessions with close relatives of the patient. Their goal is to teach communication in families, not to provoke the patient to take alcoholic beverages, to introduce warm, benevolent relations in relation to each other. Family psychotherapy has a positive effect on all family members.
• Rehabilitation of alcoholics in the monastery. The main attention in the programs of Orthodox centers is paid to the healing of the soul and body. Everyone needs to take part in church life: attend divine services, listen to priests' lectures on the Christian way of life, engage in physical labor and attend a gym to improve health. Orthodox centers are a closed system. Usually, people go there for a long period to undergo rehabilitation. A change of scenery and control have a positive effect on the acquisition of new habits. After completing the course of the patient, they maintain moral support for some time. Orthodox rehabilitation of alcoholics is completely free.
• Acupuncture relaxes and heals the body of an alcoholic: increases blood flow, improves metabolic processes, relieves headaches. This procedure is not contraindicated in any patient. At qualified specialists gives a good result.

What is rehabilitation

The rehabilitation of alcoholics and drug addicts consists in the gradual return to a person of common sense, the desire to live without alcohol and drugs. This is a fairly lengthy process. Drug and alcohol addictions cause irreversible processes if treatment is not started in time. None of the patients with alcoholism and drug addiction considers himself addicted and thinks that he can stop using chemicals at any time.

How is rehabilitation

Denial of the problem does not allow a person to understand the seriousness of the situation and find salvation. The rehabilitation of alcoholics in narcology, as the narcological dispensary is abbreviated, is an opportunity to stop a person’s physical need for alcohol and drugs, to cleanse the body of chemistry. Breaking stops, physical health is getting better, but this is only the very beginning of a return to life.

At the next stage, it is necessary to identify the causes of the disease, analyze its development, stop taking drugs or alcohol, move away from the old circle of friends. It is important to observe the diet and rest schedule of the working day. During the rehabilitation period, an individual approach of the psychologist to the patient is also necessary. Each patient must work on himself, and narcologists, psychotherapists, psychologists and consultants are required to provide the necessary assistance. At the same time, certain work should be carried out with relatives to create a healthy atmosphere in the family. Subsequent adaptation teaches the acquired knowledge to apply in life situations and not return to their previous lives.

Avoiding Illusions

“Breaking the denial” is the main stage in the rehabilitation of alcoholics and drug addicts. Without solving this problem, further treatment is impossible. Experts believe that the complex of these measures will help patients "lose pink glasses":

• performance and analysis of tasks;
• attend lectures;
• participation in trainings;
• group and individual classes under the guidance of consultants;
• performances of former addicts;
• various psychological techniques;
• cultural and educational events.

At this stage, patients should recognize that they are indeed dependent on alcohol or drugs.

Recognition of powerlessness

The process of comprehension of one's own powerlessness continues. The patient must learn that without the help of outsiders he cannot cope with addiction. Then you need to understand the causes of alcoholism or drug addiction. Understand why the disease began, how it developed. Each patient should be individually observed by a psychologist who monitors how he applies the acquired knowledge in practice.

Maturity formation

At the final stage of rehabilitation of alcoholics, a new attitude to sober life and responsibility for recovery are formed. Alumni of the center, together with a psychologist and a consultant, write an individual plan where the entire sequence of actions is clearly stated. The ultimate goal of recovery is a complete change in a person’s lifestyle.

Forced treatment

With alcoholism, a serious mental disorder occurs, and chronic patients often die. The hardest part is that people deny that they have a problem. Others are aware of the addiction to alcohol, trying to fight, but can not cope. They lose their job, family, health. Often the patient becomes inadequate, then his relatives are placed in a center for compulsory treatment.

Forced rehabilitation of alcoholics is possible only in the following cases:

1. Delirium tremens.
2. The patient committed unlawful acts.
3. The patient is inadequate, is in a condition that threatens his life.

In other cases, under no circumstances should you be hospitalized forcibly by an alcoholic. For successful rehabilitation, it is important that the patient has a desire to start a new life. Only detoxification of the body will not help an alcohol-dependent person, long-term work of a psychotherapist is necessary, support of loved ones. Otherwise, he will return to his bad habits.

Alcoholics rehabilitation: reviews

After completing a recovery course at one of the centers, patients leave the following comments:

• The center provided knowledge on why the problem of alcoholism arose, how to deal with craving for alcohol, how to live with a problem in society.
• While on treatment, many views on life situations change.
• Throughout the entire rehabilitation period, patients are monitored by psychologists and consultants. If necessary, they provide assistance, answer questions, share experiences.
• Patients themselves help each other recover. The center holds lectures and trainings.
• After rehabilitation, life has changed, peace has come, responsibility, understanding of the uselessness of alcohol. I wanted to live on a sober head.

Parents of children who have undergone rehabilitation say that in the centers they give hope for recovery, a change in life, salvation, faith in children, people and themselves. They thank the employees for the recovery of their children, for the help received in the upbringing, for the good words and faith in the child, for their support in this situation. All reviews contain words of gratitude for the help provided.