Drug Detox

Over the course of the past few months, although I’m sure it’s been much longer than that, I’ve been noticing more people claiming SOMA as a drug of choice in their laundry list of drugs abused. So, I’ve decided to pull together some information for those of us unfamiliar with SOMA. As always, if you need help, please CALL NOW for help. We are available 24 hours at (888) 292-4049.

In order to find the right drug detox and rehabilitation treatment program it is important to know what drug addiction is. Understanding drug addiction will help you and/or a loved one find and enter into a drug detox and rehabilitation treatment program that will teach you how to stay sober. They will also help you discover triggers that might lead to relapse, but just as important if a relapse does occur they will teach you what to do about it, and how to get you back on track.

One of the main reasons many of relapse is because we don’t deal with stress well. It’s not always a flaw in our character; it might be that we haven’t been taught so. We haven’t been given lessons in patience and understanding. In a drug detox and rehab we learn the steps to identify stress and how to cope.

Over this past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending a meeting with a new sober friend who was celebrating his first year. It was a small meeting, and I’ll be honest, small meetings still scare me even after 18 years of sobriety. It’s just an initial scare, but then I say, well, small meetings mean I need to speak. Of course I speak in larger meetings, but I sometimes will raise my hand with twenty other people and I won’t get called on, for whatever reason.

The Twelve Steps were the first comprehensive guidelines for recovery that ever worked, and prior to this, recovery from addiction was pretty much a hit and miss. Getting clean without getting sober is sometimes referred to as “white-knuckling it.” That’s when someone doesn’t get the opportunity to discuss and get to route of the other problems associated with using. Most become just angry people who don’t use, or a “dry-drunk.”

Of course there are many factors which can lead to relapse and hopefully back to a drug detox for help. Through the course of our life, we each experience stress from some event. No one lives a stress free life, however it’s how we cope is the difference between a happy, healthy sober life and a life of stress, anxiety, relapses, and continued drug detox treatments. Key stress factors could be: financial concerns, family dramas and crises, death, and work problems.

Stress and Addictions

So, if it’s hitting 27 years, it must be a productive AA Roundup for people who are working to maintain their recovery. I’ve always believed that no matter where you come from in recovery, whether your newly sober and just graduating from an alcohol and drug detox and rehab like Pat Moore Foundation or been clean and sober many years, each and every one of us have something to teach and offer to one another.

Continuing on with our AA Conventions Calendar, we’re keeping you up to date with these gatherings as the come up on the calendar. There are a lot of Sober Conventions throughout the year, but this one is somewhat closer to our Orange County alcohol and drug detox and rehab. Be sure to check this one out if you live in the area – and even if you don’t. Indian Wells is great!

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"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable"