Alcohol Rehab in Bay City, TX

Excessive alcohol use can affect the body and the brain in a number of ways. It can weaken the muscles of the heart and cause alcoholic cardiomyopathy, cause painful inflammation and cirrhosis of the liver, cause ulcers in the stomach, and cause kidney damage. It can shrink the brain and cause brain lesions and cause dementia, anxiety and psychosis. Perhaps worst of all, excessive alcohol causes addiction, a condition the changes the mind and brain to make alcohol, rather than work, family or passions, the center of one's life. Many people believe that they can handle the problem on their own one day. At our alcohol rehab in Bay City, however, we show our patients that this is not true. If you are addicted to alcohol, rehab is the only safe and dependable way out.

Why Is Rehab Effective for Addiction Treatment?

Consuming alcoholic beverages is normal behavior, as opposed to a hard-core street drug habit. The addiction that alcohol causes, however, can be just as hard to overcome. As with hard-core drugs, alcohol acts on the brain in two ways.

Alcohol overcomes the brain's own control of the brain's reward/pleasure center, and attempts domination of it in order to create pleasure. The result is that the brain learns dependence on the presence of alcohol to help manage the pleasure center. Attempting to quit alcohol can mean that the brain loses an important chemical that helps it function. In the time that it takes for the brain to return to normal, the patient tends to experience terrible symptoms, from extreme fluctuations in blood pressure to seizures. The only safe way to overcome these symptoms over the several days that they last, is to accept medical detox at our drug rehab in Bay City.

Alcohol affects the brain in another way. The pleasure center, when it is commandeered by alcohol, learns an instinctive attachment to the substance. Such attachment tends to be for life. Even once detoxification completes, this attachment to alcohol simply persists forever. It takes intensive and long-term therapy to deprogram the mind. Without such therapy, addiction always returns. Relapse is a reality for 95% of addicts who do not fully engage in therapy.

Seek our Alcohol Rehab in Bay City for Your Alcoholism?

There are many alcohol rehabs, but little quality regulation by the government. It is entirely dependent on the patient to ensure that a rehab program chosen actually does offer current, evidence-based treatment programs that can deliver. While it's important for patients to read up about addiction and rehab, and to interview addiction rehabs to determine competence, it can help to keep a few rules in mind.

Licensing: Licensing by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations comes with a certain level of assurance of quality and patient safety.

Personalization: While it may be cost-effective for a rehab to offer every patient a stock rehab program, it rarely works well. Our experts recommend personalized treatment programs in Bay City. This approach recognizes the fact that addiction appears differently in each patient, with different combinations of mental and health complications. It's important to talk to the alcohol rehab to find out what their treatment philosophy is.

Record-keeping: Hospitals are required keep detailed records of the treatment they offer each patient. If there is a change of physicians or another source of confusion, the entire treatment program applied is perfectly clear to any professional attending on the patient. Alcohol rehabs deserve the same standards. It's important to verify a policy of thorough record-keeping.

Aftercare: Some rehabs focus on detoxification and offer little or no therapy afterwards. These rehab centers rarely offer success. An alcohol rehab center is only a serious organization if it has an exhaustive therapeutic plan.

Integrated dual diagnosis treatment: Addiction is frequently seen together with co-occurring psychiatric disorders. Treatment of both conditions in an integrated plan is the only way to help the addict. Any drug and alcohol rehab that you approach should offer such integrated care.

At our alcohol rehab in Bay City, we do check each one of these boxes. If you need treatment for yourself or a loved one, you should call us to talk to us at (877) 804-1531.