Addiction Group Therapy

Addiction has the ability to negatively affect your relationships, career, and physical and mental health. Drug and alcohol abuse can lead to liver damage, increase your risk of acquiring an infectious disease and create financial problems. Treatment and addiction group therapy programs are important parts of the recovery process and can improve your ability to achieve life-long sobriety and abstinence.

Substance abuse disorders impact more than 10% of Americans each and every year. Addiction and substance abuse disorders are chronic, incurable conditions that impact, change and impair your brain chemistry and judgment. Drug overdoses are also now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, demonstrating how lethal addiction can become. Addiction group therapy in Florida helps you stay sober.

Addiction

Substance abuse and addiction cause you to compulsively use and abuse drugs and alcohol despite persistent negative consequences and/or a desire to quit. Drugs and alcohol cause your brain to release a pleasurable rush of neurotransmitters, which creates positive emotions and feels of intoxication.

Once the effects wear off, you are suddenly depleted of neurotransmitters. When you experience a neurotransmitter shortage, you can deal with intense cravings to use again. Using your substance of choice will replenish your supply of neurotransmitters.

Drugs and alcohol can also impair your judgment and change your decision-making process. This means that, when you are trapped in addiction, you are more likely to make poor, dangerous or risky decisions. You can also deal with withdrawal symptoms when you stop using, which intensifies cravings and makes it difficult to remain abstinent.

Signs and symptoms of addiction include:

• Spending the majority of your time and money buying and using drugs or alcohol
• Using drugs or alcohol in inappropriate or dangerous situations
• Isolating from friends, family members, and loved ones
• Having friends or loved ones confront you about your drug or alcohol use
• Needing to use drugs or alcohol when you first wake up
• Suffering memory loss or blackouts when intoxicated

Addiction Group Therapy 

Addiction group therapy Florida offers can help you identify and change negative thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Also, this therapy utilizes both evidence-based and holistic treatments. Examples of evidence-based treatments include:

• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Dialectic behavioral therapy
• Mindfulness based relapse prevention
• Medication assisted therapy
• Individual counseling

Evidence-based treatments are therapies that, after extensive studies and research, are proven to be effective in past patients. Most evidence-based therapies are implemented in both individual and group treatment activities.

Holistic therapies focus on healing the body, mind, and spirit. In addition, an important aspect of holistic treatments is providing you with the tools to learn how to manage and control negative emotions, like stress. Some of the most common holistic drug treatments include:

• Meditation and mindfulness exercises
• Acupuncture and massage therapy
• Nature and animal therapy
• Yoga and Pilates

Finding Help Today 

When you are battling a substance abuse problem, you can feel stressed, frustrated and alone. Reaching out for help is the first step in the recovery process. Inpatient and outpatient addiction group therapy can improve your ability to successfully recover. Contact us today at 866.605.0532 to learn more about your treatment options.