Alcohol Rehabs

Harmful drinking:

The sooner you get treated, the better. If you are accustomed to drink a lot but haven’t started abusing, there is a good chance of preventing that one becomes an alcoholic. But it requires that you are motivated to get treatment.

Treatment can include help to change lifestyles and to find other ways to relax or enjoy themselves than by drinking. Through interviews with a psychologist or other therapists, you become more aware of the extent of how your life is influenced by your relationship with alcohol.

you also have to examine your consumption pattern in detail and find out where to cut. Then submit, a course of action as you try to keep your life on track. At the next interview your “Blueprint” is adjusted in proportion to what has happened in the meantime.

You may get treatment in many parts of South Africa. your doctor or the nearest alcohol clinic can provide advice on where to get help in the local area.

Addictions:

If you have been drinking heavily for several days, it is necessary first to obtain treatment for withdrawal symptoms, so you do not risk getting severe cramps or delirium tremens.

Then the real treatment starts, in order to prevent that you fall back into addiction.

Withdrawal treatment:

Withdrawal symptoms can be hazardous to your health. It is therefore important to get treated withdrawal symptoms rather than try it “cold turkey”.

If withdrawal symptoms get out of hand there is a risk that it developes into delirium tremens. You can also risk getting severe cramps where you have muscle cramps in all your muscles at once, while losing consciousness.

Finally, it is important to be examined if you feel something physical. It can include the risk of having Wernicke encephalopathy, a disease caused by lack of B vitamins. If you don’t get treatment, you risk becomming demented.

The principle of the withdrawal treatment is that you get nerv sedative drugs in huge quantities.

Nerv medicine replaces the alcohol effect in the brain, so you can relax and fall asleep. When you wake up again, you are no longer affected by alcohol. You therefore get no withdrawal symptoms.

Delirium tremens:

If you have alcohol abuse and have been drinking large quantities of alcohol for days or weeks, it can be dangerous to suddenly stop drinking. This could cause delirium tremens, where you get confused, experience severe anxiety and usually have scary visual hallucinations. Delirium tremens is dangerous if you do not get treatment in time.

When you have delirium tremens, your body is overactive. Your are very restless, can not sleep or relax, blood pressure and pulse rate is high, you have fever and you do not know where you are and what is happening. Unless you get medicine, so you can calm down and fall asleep, you can die of exhaustion.