Meth Addiction Treatment in Texas
Meth can cause horrible, destructive addiction. There is treatment available for those who develop addiction, but it can wreck a person’s body and psyche before they can fully heal from the addiction. Long-term recovery from meth addiction can involve working through a treatment program, battling through difficult withdrawal symptoms, and working to repair disrupted relationships. But the effort is always worth it because meth can wreak destruction across a person’s entire life.
What is Methamphetamine?
Meth releases dopamine and serotonin, neurotransmitters that produce pleasurable feelings in the brain and body. When these chemicals occur naturally, they stimulate the brain’s reward centers and make a person feel good. This is naturally used by the body to endorse positive decisions that help the body work better. For example, dopamine is often released during exercise, which makes us feel motivated and happy after a workout.
But in recreational drugs, these chemicals produce a “high” of pleasurable feelings when they flood the brain. Serotonin and dopamine production can escalate while the high lasts. But once it’s over, the person can experience intense fatigue and depression as these chemicals are processed out of the brain’s neural pathways. For some people, drug addiction can affect overall levels of dopamine in the person’s brain.
Who Becomes Addicted to Meth?
- People with easy access to methamphetamine: Meth is frequently not a person’s first drug if they seek out to feel a “high,” simply due to pure accessibility. Because of its illegal status, producers and customers of meth frequently meet in dangerous areas or situations to conduct business. If doing so isn’t too far of a distance (mentally or emotionally), a person is much more likely to start or continue using meth.
- People who had early exposure to drugs: Being raised in an environment of frequent drug use can normalize the experience. It may be difficult to see the symptoms of addiction developing if it resembles normal or everyday life in someone’s childhood memory.
- People dealing with stress or trauma: It can seem like a reasonable proposition to use an addictive substance once in a while to relieve stress. Processing trauma or difficult events may create an urge to frequently use addictive substances to endure the temporary feelings. However these emotions may not go away for a long time, and a person may find it difficult to manage cravings after the period of most acute stress is over.
- Those with co-occurring mental health disorders: Many people gravitate to addictive substances as a means of self-medicating the symptoms of mental disorders. Dual diagnosis treatment is essential in addiction recovery because it works specifically to help people with addiction cope with mental disorder symptoms without resorting to drugs.
Not all people with difficult upbringings or traumatic experiences will become addicted to drugs. But it’s important to think about what may be a challenging factor if one is struggling with meth addiction.
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Side Effects of Methamphetamine Abuse and Addiction
Long-term meth abuse alters how the brain functions and impacts the rest of your body. There are several common signs and behavioral changes of methamphetamine addiction:
- Hypersomnia and insomnia
- Change in appetite, sometimes producing severe weight loss
- Paranoia and depression
- Dental decay
- Malnutrition
- Heart rhythm irregularities and hypertension
- Erratic behavior
- Skin lesions
- Dehydration
- Increased risk of hepatitis and blood-borne illnesses such as HIV
Not all effects may happen from addiction to meth. But meth is infamous for its intense withdrawal symptoms, and so it makes sense that a lot of people may relapse or act in desperation to feel relief.
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The Risks of Methamphetamine Withdrawal
The person addicted to meth may have begun taking more meth over time to regularly experience a high. More would have been necessary over time to achieve this. But by the time someone is ready to enter meth treatment, they may be physically dependent on meth use to feel “normal.” This means that detoxification may be physically dangerous because the body has already adapted its normal functioning to include meth.
Detoxifying is not only waiting for all the methamphetamine to leave the person’s system. It is coping with the body reacting to the lack of methamphetamine and the drastic reactions that may result. It’s recommended that people recovering from meth addiction complete detox in a treatment program or a similar supportive environment that includes medical professionals that can react to any sudden emergency brought on by detoxification.
Important Aspects of Methamphetamine Addiction Treatment
A meth addiction treatment center can provide comprehensive and specialized care for individuals struggling with methamphetamine addiction. We at Cypress Lake Recovery use a multidisciplinary approach to address both addiction and any co-occurring mental health issues. This helps set up the person in recovery for optimum healing and improved well-being.
Before beginning the therapeutic aspects of treatment, medical detox will ensure the drug has fully left your system. Methamphetamine is highly addictive, and the detox stage can be difficult. Symptoms of meth withdrawal can include seizures, heart attack, nausea, coma, vomiting, cold sweats, breathing issues, uncontrolled shaking, and death. It’s important to detox in a medical facility equipped to handle the side effects and ensure that you detox safely.
This classic form of treatment involves one-on-one sessions with a therapist to try and address the root causes of your addiction. Individual therapy can help the person in recovery develop helpful coping mechanisms to ensure they don’t feel that they need substances to cope with the stress and trouble of regular life. Techniques like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can provide necessary and helpful structures for dealing with the negative thoughts and mood swings of early recovery.
Group therapy is also a crucial element of the treatment offerings, where patients have the opportunity to participate in various types of groups that foster interaction, support, and collective healing among individuals facing similar challenges with addiction.
Depending on a person’s needs, different types of mental health therapy may be helpful in treatment of substance use. Family therapy emphasizes the importance of family involvement in supporting treatment, educating about addiction, and fostering overall success in healing. Creative endeavors such as writing and music therapy can help with dealing with symptoms and getting back in touch with oneself after periods of addiction.
At Cypress Lake, we work with you to treat more than the side effects of drug use and help you recover past the important step of sobriety. Addressing mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and bipolar disorder is crucial for sustainable recovery. Many people use drugs and develop addictions in order to self-medicate the symptoms of mental health disorders. For example, if you are dealing with clinical depression, you could become addicted to the effects of methamphetamine as a quick and seemingly easy way to feel relief from these symptoms.
We know that treating everything related to addiction, including mental health concerns or traumatic events that led to addiction, is the only way to ensure you can live a life free from relapse. Recovery from addiction has to include a total recovery of the self, and it’s extremely important to build up skills that can help a person sustain long periods without using an addictive substance without being tempted to relapse.
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