Benzodiazepine Addiction Treatment

Due to its dangerously addictive properties, benzodiazepine dependence sufferers urgently require benzodiazepine addiction treatment. Refusing any opportunity at professional treatment not only puts your mental and physical health in jeopardy but also your life. There are very systematic steps required to rehab correctly from Benzodiazepine. All those vital steps and more are intricately detailed in the information below.

At Bayview Recovery Center in San Diego, California, our men’s rehab center provides treatment services for people suffering from benzodiazepine addiction. You’re not alone on the journey to recovery.

How Common is Benzodiazepine Abuse?

Considering roughly twelve percent of adults (over thirty million nationwide) are prescribed benzo-based prescriptions annually, it provides a greater opportunity for this addictive drug to be abused. The NIH further reports an estimated 17.2 percent of all users misuse benzodiazepine based on recent data. These staggering numbers tell you that you are not alone in your struggle with benzodiazepine dependency. You can reverse your cravings and alleviate your miserable withdrawal symptoms through our state-of-the-art benzodiazepine addiction treatment programs.

What Exactly are Benzodiazepines?

Benzodiazepine, or benzos for short, is a depressant-based compound found in a large variety of anxiety and personality disorders. The effects of this depressant heavily suppress the central nervous system to a nearly sedative state. Therefore, when abused, these sedative and euphoric sensations are magnified, albeit at a dangerous cost to your mental and physical health. Furthermore, its highly addictive properties are the reason it is used strictly for short-term medication solutions. However, as alluded to earlier, a dangerously high rate of people abuse the ease of accessibility to these over-the-counter drugs.

How Does Benzodiazepine Affect the Brain and Body

The way benzos interact with your brain and body causes a domino effect of mental and physical harm. Once benzos are in your system, they stimulate an abnormal release of GABA cells, a neurotransmitter responsible for suppressing your central nervous system. This means less physical pain, slowed nerve response, and overall numbness.

Physically, this means slowed cognitive response and reflexes, drowsiness, mental incoherence, disorientation, and other slowed nervous system responses. In the case of benzo abuse and overdose, more serious side effects include suppressed respiratory function, coma, and death. Prolonged abuse of benzos is also linked to permanent heart, respiratory, and mental health conditions. While some of these long-term hindrances may be permanent, it’s never too late to enroll in addiction treatment. Doing so can help you prevent further harm and, in some cases, reverse the damage.

What are Common Signs of Benzodiazepine Addiction?

Benzos dependency doesn’t come without noticeable indicators of a drug addiction. If any of the following signs of Benzodiazepine abuse describe you or a loved one, get help today.

Slurred or Incoherent Speech

One of the most common signs of drug abuse can mimic the same symptoms of alcohol intoxication. Correlatively, in the case of benzos, one may exhibit slurred or indiscernible speech that is similar to intoxication. However, when you see the symptom without a distinct alcoholic odor, it could be a telltale sign of benzo misuse. Remember, prescription drug abuse may be odorless, but it’s often evident in behavioral cues, especially when through speech inhibitions. Don’t turn a blind eye to someone who may be expressing visible signs of a prescription drug addiction.

Social Detachment

Social seclusion is a prevalent side effect and symptom of benzos-based depressants. One who is under the influence or even experiencing withdrawals may seclude themselves from a crowd. This is a pronounced symptom as they will often be overly kept to themselves or avoid social interaction entirely. Don’t ignore the red flags if you or someone you know may be exhibiting benzo-inflicted social detachment. Use proper discretion to seek out professional help. Your response to these evident signs of abuse could be the difference between life and death.

Suffering Work and Home Responsibilities

Uncharacteristic tardiness, suffering work performance, and declining responsibilities are indicative of a substance abuse problem. This is especially the case for Benzo abuse sufferers as the drug can bring an individual to an almost vegetative state. This further leads to distorted priorities and rash decision-making. The ultimate consequences lead to job loss, broken relationships, and other similar self-destructive harms. Get your life back by getting treatment that gives you the life skills in recovery necessary to get back on your feet.

Financial Strains

A Benzo addiction habit requires significant finances to sustain. The most dangerous part of that comes with the mental reorganization of priorities associated with a chemical dependency. Therefore, your brain prioritizes your next fix over more important bills, home necessities, nutrition needs, and other vital family responsibilities. Once these financial strains occur, one has become a slave to their addiction struggle. Rest assured, if you’re experiencing the financial strains of drug addiction, Bayview Recovery works with your insurance to alleviate treatment costs.

Mood Swings

Benzo’s effects and withdrawals can have unpredictable consequences on individual mood. This can cause one’s mood to drastically alter from happy to sad to angry in very rapid succession. These sudden mood swings can occur for little to no reason because of the chemically altering effects of the drug. If mood swings with little or no apparent cause describe you or someone you know, this could be a side effect of Benzo’s use or withdrawal.

Elevated Anxiety and Paranoia

Benzodiazepine addiction is so taxing on the brain that it ironically inflicts the exact issue it is supposed to treat. Unfounded high anxiety is one of the most common side effects of benzos dependency. These effects can be so severe that they border and exceed paranoia or delusional thoughts. The only way to treat these drug-induced anxieties is through professional benzodiazepine addiction treatment. We can help you overcome these drug-related stresses and minimize these withdrawal symptoms together.

Involuntary Shakes

A sure indication of a prescription drug addiction and withdrawal symptoms is uncontrollable shakes. These involuntary tremors can occur while under the influence or if the user is experiencing difficult withdrawal symptoms. Thankfully, in the case of withdrawals, there are medication-based treatments that can help alleviate these tremors. Our compassionate team is dedicated to helping you through the difficult withdrawal phase with as minimal side effects as possible.

What is the Best Treatment for Benzodiazepine Addiction?

Benzodiazepine addiction treatment has several individualized programs to ensure your treatment is centered around your specific needs. The following treatments are the most effective programs for benzodiazepine treatment.

Medical Detox Programs

The only way to overcome Benzos dependency without causing serious harm to yourself is through professional detox programs. That’s because attempting to do so alone could send your body into shock that could have long-term consequences, including death. Never self-attempt benzodiazepine detox without the instruction or guidance of a medical or treatment specialist. Our personalized cleansing methods are conducted through our PHP treatment programs or other more hands-on treatments. Speak to a treatment assessment specialist to learn more about which setting suits your recovery needs.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

If you need special mental training to help mentally and physically remove associated triggers and cravings, CBT for addiction may be for you. This revolutionary treatment works by physically training you to change your thought patterns. In short, it helps you untrain habits instilled by one’s addictive mentality and replace them with proactive desires. CBT can be a life-changing treatment as it can also remove associated cravings and help you to despise the substance altogether.

Individual Therapy

Though all our treatment practices are engineered for complete personalization, individual therapy magnifies introspection. This is mainly because many find one-on-one sessions to be extremely insightful, enabling doctors to get to know you on a deeper level. Thus, individual therapy enables a therapist to understand your triggers, impulses, and other addiction-related information to better combat your struggle.

Family Therapy

Family therapy is a good way to help the entire family heal together, both from addiction and in personal relationships. This can help the family understand the addicted party better and how to deal with a struggling family member. Our family therapy specialists utilize these sessions to help the family grow together through the recovery process. It can also motivate the struggling individual to tackle treatment head-on while establishing a realistic perspective of their addiction battles.

Group Therapy

Group therapy is best suited for people who feel so alone in their struggle that they feel nobody understands. Group therapy removes that loneliness by surrounding them with like-minded people who have endured a lot of the same situations. This helps an individual see they truly don’t have to be alone in their recovery. Most importantly, the bonds they form in group therapy share a common goal of achieving independent sobriety. This social support structure could be all the support one needs to get over the hump in their Benzodiazepine addiction treatment.

What are the Dangers of Benzodiazepine Abuse?

Benzos is a mentally and physically harmful substance that can inflict permanent mental and physical health problems. In addition, the potency of the drug poses a significant risk of accidental overdose. For those seeking to overcome the addiction, the withdrawal symptoms alone can be a miserable experience. Most disconcertingly, without professional help, these withdrawal symptoms can be severe enough to have fatal outcomes. As long as you’re reading this, it’s not to prevent these dangers and reverse some of the long-term health effects.

Bayview Recovery Has the Benzodiazepine Addiction Treatment You’ve Been Waiting For

We understand the troublesome mental and physical tolls of addiction. That’s why we’ve centered our treatment procedures around ensuring the most personalized, uplifting therapy to maximize efficacy. Lift the burden of addiction from your shoulders by contacting our unmatched treatment team today. You’re just a call or click away from the opportunity to achieve your recovery dreams.

References

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Alyssa Looser-Smith( Medical Reviewer )

Alyssa is a licensed Clinical Social Worker and received her Master’s degree from San Diego State University. She has experience working with individuals in recovery of all ages for over eight years. Alyssa has also worked with at-risk homeless foster youth transitioning into independent living along with the families in the neonatal intensive care unit at UCSD.