One thing you should always remember is Substance Abuse at whatever stage is 100% curable. All it needs is self-determination and some help from family, friends and your doctors.
Substance abuse or addiction is a psychological disease that affects your mind and begins to rapidly change your behavior and general well being. When you abuse drugs or alcohol, the continued use of these substances actually make changes in your brain in certain ways which in turn change your behavior slightly or in some cases completely. The situation turns serious or will apparently turn serious for the substance abuser when he continues the use drugs without thinking of the consequences, such as problems with health, money, relationships and performance at work or at school.
Therefore the simple answer to do you need drug and alcohol rehab? is do you use or abuse drugs or alcohol even though you know that these substances are harmful to you. If you answered YES to this question then you need drug and alcohol rehab.
There are certain more points that can alert you to the question - Do you need drug and alcohol rehab?
• Are people making comments about your drinking?
• Have you been promising your self you will quit or give up?
• Has drinking or drugs been interfering with your work or school recently?
• Did you have legal problems due to your use of alcohol or drugs?
• Do you think that you cannot sleep in the night without using drugs or alcohol?
• Have you experienced financial problems because of your use of alcohol or drugs?
• Have you been feeling guilty about you alcohol or drug habits?
• Are you using alcohol or drugs to escape from your worries?
• Have you been drinking or using drugs alone lately?
• Is drinking or drug use harming your reputation?
• Has drinking or drug use interfered with sleeping?
• Has your drinking or drug use decreased your ambition?
• Have you lost time from work or your school because of drinking or drug use?
• Have you started to use more alcohol or drugs than you did a few days ago or do you need more of the substance to get intoxicated than earlier?
If you answered “Yes” to more than 3 of the questions above you are certainly a candidate for drug or alcohol rehab program.
Some more points to remember are that you can become addicted to illegal drugs and to drugs that doctors prescribe. You can also become addicted to things that you may not consider as being drugs such as nicotine in cigarettes or smokeless tobacco. And you might need drug rehab if you get addicted to any of these.
While choosing the drug rehab it has to be made sure that all the aspects of what caused the addiction problem in the first place have to be addressed.
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