Scientific Knowledge Will Transform the Way we Treat Addiction

The scientific knowledge we have accumulated will be used to transform the way we treat addiction and how we prevent drug abuse in the first place, or its escalation to addiction.

Genes account for about 50 percent of a person’s risk of becoming addicted, and environmental factors influence the effect of these genes—an area of research called epigenetics. Progress in genetics/ epigenetics research will lead to more refined prevention and treatment interventions targeted to individual risk or to modifiable environmental influences.

Emerging medication targets and treatment approaches will capitalize on our expanded knowledge of underlying neurobiology and brain circuitry involved in addiction. For example, research has revealed new candidate systems (e.g., cannabinoid) that may be promising targets for the development of medications to treat addiction and other disease (e.g., pain). Medications will also be developed to affect systems common to multiple addictions, such as stress-induced relapse, or cognitive remediation. Of critical importance to the development of future addiction therapies is the notion of brain plasticity as a two- edged sword: the same malleability that can bring about deleterious brain changes also holds promise for effective and enduring treatments.

Immunotherapy (e.g., “vaccines”), will be available to sustain abstinence, even prevent addiction. Studies are underway to develop or improve vaccines that use antibodies to bind the drug while it is still in the bloodstream, preventing it from entering the brain. A vaccine for nicotine addiction is already in advanced efficacy trials, having garnered significant improvement in smoking cessation rates and continuous long-term smoking abstinence.

Pharmacogenomics—or understanding how variations in an individual’s genome affect his or her response to a medication—will advance sufficiently to allow physicians to individualize patient treatment for maximum efficacy and minimal adverse effects.

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, along with increased accessibility to insurance coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act, will expand access to substance abuse treatment and improve delivery of integrated healthcare for addiction and its health consequences. This will require well-trained substance abuse treatment providers and seamless integration with the mainstream healthcare system.

Primary care physicians and other healthcare professionals will routinely screen their patients for substance abuse and help prevent its escalation to addiction. By Identifying substance abusers—already over represented in the patient population—physicians can provide better and more comprehensive patient care that will improve outcomes for many medical conditions where substance abuse is already present.

Early and appropriate substance use intervention will also alleviate the significant societal costs of drug abuse and addiction, currently estimated at about $600 billion a year.

Material Posted above is Courtesy of National Institute of Drug Abuse

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Treating Addiction to CNS Depressants

Patients addicted to barbiturates and benzodiazepines should not attempt to stop taking them on their own. Withdrawal symptoms from these drugs can be problematic, and in the case of certain CNS depressants - potentially life-threatening. Although no research regarding the treatment of barbiturate and benzodiazepine addiction exists, addicted patients must undergo medically supervised detoxification because the treatment dose must be gradually tapered. Often barbiturate and benzodiazepine abuse occurs in conjunction with the abuse of another substance or drug, such as alcohol or cocaine. In these cases of poly drug abuse, Cove’s addiction treatment approach addresses the multiple addictions.

Cove offers Inpatient/Residential and Outpatient counseling services to help the individual during this process. Cove offers cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on modifying the patient's thinking, expectations, and behaviors, while at the same time increasing skills for coping with various life stressors. All of our addiction treatment programs provides recreational and sports activities which has also been used successfully to help individuals adapt to the discontinuation of benzodiazepines and its discomforts. Our addiction treatment approach helps people to leave their destructive life style and immerse themselves in a new and different healing environment. Cove is nationally known and respected for its unique successful approach to real life recovery. 

Interventions are necessary for individuals who are unable or unwilling to recognize the need for help.

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What Is Drug Addiction Treatment?

There are many addictive drugs, and treatments for specific drugs can differ. Treatment also varies depending on the characteristics of the patient.

Problems associated with an individual's drug addiction can vary significantly. People who are addicted to drugs come from all walks of life. Many suffer from mental health, occupational, health, or social problems that make their addictive disorders much more difficult to treat. Even if there are few associated problems, the severity of addiction itself ranges widely among people.

A variety of scientifically based approaches to drug addiction treatment exists. Drug addiction treatment can include behavioral therapy (such as counseling, cognitive therapy, or psychotherapy), medications, or their combination. Behavioral therapies offer people strategies for coping with their drug cravings, teach them ways to avoid drugs and prevent relapse, and help them deal with relapse if it occurs. When a person's drug-related behavior places him or her at higher risk for AIDS or other infectious diseases, behavioral therapies can help to reduce the risk of disease transmission. Case management and referral to other medical, psychological, and social services are crucial components of treatment for many patients. The best programs provide a combination of therapies and other services to meet the needs of the individual patient, which are shaped by such issues as age, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, pregnancy, parenting, housing, and employment, as well as physical and sexual abuse.

Drug addiction treatment can include behavioral therapy, medications, or their combination.
Treatment medications, such as methadone, LAAM, and naltrexone, are available for individuals addicted to opiates. Nicotine preparations (patches, gum, nasal spray) and bupropion are available for individuals addicted to nicotine.

Medications, such as antidepressants, mood stabilizers, or neuroleptics, may be critical for treatment success when patients have co-occurring mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, or psychosis.

Addiction Treatment can occur in a variety of settings, in many different forms, and for different lengths of time. Because drug addiction is typically a chronic disorder characterized by occasional relapses, a short-term, one-time treatment often is not sufficient. For many, treatment is a long-term process that involves multiple interventions and attempts at abstinence.

 If you are looking for a comprehensive addiction treatment program, Cove Center for Recovery premier Drug Rehab Centers is the solution for you. From Intervention to  Recovery After Care, Cove Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers provides unique programs helping patients  to recognize the origin of the problem that caused the need to self-medicate. Learning how to deal with these problems results in facing situations instead of avoiding them and reduces the chance of relapse. 

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Percocet Addiction and Treatment

As more and more prescribed pain relievers promise to help patients cope with their unbearable ailments and pain, their serious side effects which include everything from overdosing to experience what patients identify as “euphoriant bliss” to liver failure and in many cases death, seem to leave us wondering if they should even be legalized to begin with.

In the last few decades the FDA has approved the use of many narcotic painkillers that while help patient cope with pain, prove themselves to be “habit forming” and in many cases simply addictive. All in which conclude to patient suffering from withdrawal symptoms that persist upon completion of prescribed dosage.

Marketed in North America since the 70’s, the combination of Oxycodone and Acetaminophen commonly known as “Percocet”, is a strong painkiller which when taken in the regular doses, alleviates pain in patients. Although strictly available only when prescribed by a healthcare physician, Percocet has fallen into the hands of many individuals already suffering from the detrimental effects of drug abuse. Often combined with alcohol, drug abusers seek to experience high levels of euphoric pleasure upon mixing the two, unaware of the fatal side effects.
Because of its chemical makeup which consists of Acetaminophen, a pain killer and Oxycodone, a narcotic analgesic, this drug should only be prescribed to individuals with severe and persisting aches and pains, by a certified healthcare physician to determine the appropriate amount dosage that must be administered.

If you or someone you know have started using Percocet for medical reasons and have now become addicted to it, and can't stop using the drug, please find professional help.
Because addiction is typically a chronic disease, people cannot simply stop using the drug of their choice for a few days and be cured. Most patients addicted to prescription drugs require long-term or repeated episodes of care to achieve the ultimate goal of sustained abstinence of the drug and recovery of their lives.

Nationally recognized, residential addiction treatment center -  Cove Center  for Recovery is known for it's unique approach to "Real Life" Treatment and Recovery."Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes."
Cove’s approach to Addiction Treatment includes the 12-Step Model of Recovery, Individual, Group, and Family Therapeutic Sessions, Gender Specific Groups, Music Therapy, Art Therapy, Meditation,  Physical Fitness Program, Addiction Cycle Educational Lectures, Relapse Prevention Lectures, Daily Living Skills and Responsibilities, and attendance in daily Alcoholics Anonymous and/or Narcotics Anonymous meetings. Cove’s "Real Life Program" is a combination of a clinical, residential and activities program. Daily life challenges encountered during activities and residential life are processed in our therapeutic setting, allowing each individual the opportunity to apply skills and experience growth in the journey of recovery.

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