• About Heroin Help in Prescott AZ

    Heroin and Substance Abuse Recovery Treatment

    Here at Heroin Help in Prescott Arizona Treatment is intended to help addicted individuals stop compulsive drug seeking and use. Treatment can occur in a variety of settings, take many different forms, and last for different lengths of time. Because heroin addiction is typically a chronic disorder characterized by occasional relapses, a short-term, one-time treatment is usually not sufficient. For many, treatment is a long-term process that involves multiple interventions and regular monitoring.

     

    Behavioral therapies can help motivate people to participate in drug treatment, offer strategies for coping with heroin cravings, teach ways to avoid drugs and prevent relapse, and help individuals deal with relapse if it occurs. Behavioral therapies can also help people improve communication, relationship, and parenting skills, as well as family dynamics.

     

    There are a variety of evidence-based approaches to treating addiction. Heroin treatment can include behavioral therapy (such as cognitive-behavioral therapy or contingency management), medications, or their combination. The specific type of treatment or combination of treatments will vary depending on the patient’s individual needs and, often, on the types of drugs they use.

     

    Many treatment programs employ both individual and group therapies. Group therapy can provide social reinforcement and help enforce behavioral contingencies that promote abstinence and a non-drug-using lifestyle. Some of the more established behavioral treatments, such as contingency management and cognitive-behavioral therapy, are also being adapted for group settings to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness. However, particularly in adolescents, there can also be a danger of unintended harmful (or iatrogenic) effects of group treatment—sometimes group members (especially groups of highly delinquent youth) can reinforce drug use and thereby derail the purpose of the therapy. Thus, trained counselors should be aware of and monitor for such effects.

     

    Because they work on different aspects of addiction, combinations of behavioral therapies and medications (when available) generally appear to be more effective than either approach used alone to overcome heroin addiction.

    Heroin Treatment Programs

    Types of Treatment Programs

    Silver Sands Recovery

    Silver Sands Recovery will help you get your life on track with our founding principals: superior quality care and exceptional supervision.

    Our mission is to build you back up so you can graduate from our program feeling more confident and more in charge of your life than you ever have before.


    At our beautiful facility, clients have access to a full range of alternative therapies. Silver Sands Recovery recognizes the importance of integrating physical and mental health for a full and healthy recovery.

    12 Step Treatment and Group Therapy

    12 Step Treatment

    Group and Individual Therapy

    Our treatment blends the traditional 12 Step model with holistic, clean living, and cutting edge treatment modalities. The goal is to help you develop a lifestyle that promotes skills to assist you the rest of your life, wherever you are, long after treatment has been completed.

    The difference between Silver Sands Recovery and other rehabs is Silver Sands Recovery will take you to a 12 Step meeting your very first night, and every day thereafter. We believe your introduction to this process should start immediately and it is the best way to attain lifelong sobriety.

    Holistic Drug Addiction Treatment

    Holistic Treatment

    Benefits of Holistic Treatment

    Self-awareness is one of the primary goals of holistic healing and in addition to the traditional analysis and psychotherapy, it promotes long term wellness. Through integrating this approach it helps patients heal from addiction on all levels of the body, mind, and spirit.

    One cannot be expected to heal fully without addressing all the areas of one’s life that has been affected by addiction. We remove the connections to people, places, and things that are associated with the addiction, allowing the individual to focus completely on the treatment.

  • What are Opioid drugs?

     

    The opioids are in a class of drugs that act to give the body relief from pain, but also may cause the user to experience a pleasurable sense of euphoria in the brain. Heroin is one commonly abused illicit opioid. Other abused opioids include the prescription painkiller drugs – administered by doctors for managing a number of painful health conditions.

    • Oxycodone (OxyContin, Percocet).
    • Hydrocodone (Lortab, Norco, Vicodin).
    • Morphine (Avinza, Kadian).
    • Codeine (Tylenol 3).

    Dependence can develop with many drugs, including painkiller prescription drugs – either when abused or when taken as prescribed. Drug addiction indeed includes physical dependence. But it also includes compulsive drug-seeking behaviors and drug use, even in the face of devastating consequences. Often times, a person needs to seek Substance Abuse Assistance to battle this addictions. How does this all start?

  • Substance Abuse Treatment & Heroin Help in Prescott AZ

    Silver Sands Recovery

    Substance Abuse and Heroin Treatment Programs

    Prescription Pills can lead to Heroin Addiction

      How Abusing Painkillers can often lead to Heroin Addictions

    Not everyone who abuses painkillers starts using heroin, but even painkiller abuse alone can hurt you. Opioid drugs of all kinds can be very addictive. Addiction is a disease where you feel like you need to use a drug even if that drug is hurting you and messing up your life. Addiction is caused by chemical changes in the brain after drug use.

     

    When someone is addicted to painkillers or heroin, it is very difficult for them to stop using the drug. People trying to stop using opioids after they are addicted may have withdrawal. Some of the effects of opioid withdrawal are restlessness, muscle and bone pain, trouble sleeping, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goosebumps, and uncontrollable leg movements.

     

    Heroin can be used in ingested in three different ways: via injection, smoking, and snorting. No matter the route, the high from heroin appears – and disappears – quickly. This, along with the fact that heroin acts on the brain’s reward center, creates the high risk of addiction. Some of the effects of a heroin “high” include:

    • Euphoria
    • Dry mouth
    • Constricted pupils
    • Short-term memory loss
    • Nausea and vomiting
    • Flushing
    • Itching
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