rehab-conference

Not
so long ago, I have been
invited to participate in a conference dealing with the drug rehabilitation
programs and detoxification. The conference is supposed to
take
place in June, in a nice hotel in downtown. I have obviously agreed to
participate, since I try to never miss a chance to participate in an
event like
that, but then I started thinking about what really made me participate
in it.
My history with studying addiction has been long. I started doing peer
psychological counseling even while still in High School, under the
supervision
of a wonderful lady who taught us (meaning me and other fellow
students) how to
approach students in need, how to elicit what their main concerns are,
and how
to address those. One of the biggest problems in a teenage population
was,
apparently, addiction, at that time. I learned what addiction is about,
what
factors might contribute to its development, how to approach patients
with
addictions, how to help them better, and so on and so forth. I learned
about
the options that were available for people that suffered from various
kinds of
addiction, including cigarettes, alcohol,
recreational drugs, etc. I also
learned that addiction recovery is a very powerful phenomenon that
health care
professionals really need to push forward. Addiction recovery can
be
very difficult to achieve, but once, thanks to the efforts of health
care
professionals, families, and individuals themselves, a lot of
individuals
suffering from addiction get rehabilitated and go on to develop healthy
lives
and healthy relationships. Detoxification
is generally a long-term
program, in which individuals have to follow a certain regimen,
participate in
individual and group activities, and learn to control the functions of
their
bodies. The program allows individuals who suffer from various
addictions to
“come to their senses”, realize that their
addictions are hurting not only the
aspects of their lives that they are aware of, but much more, including
their
future, and so on. The program also includes medical assistance, in the
form of
certain drugs and therapy. Overall, from my experience in High School,
I have
learned (which is probably the biggest thing that I carried out of it)
is that
addictions are much easier to prevent than treat, but once the
individual has
the addiction, given the agreement and desire of that individual, the
addiction
is curable, like any other curable disease. However, the treatment does
require
higher levels of compliance from patients, but once the desire is
there, there
is really a lot a patient can do to his/her life and the life of the
family in
terms of getting rid of the addiction.