As a result of scientific research, we know that addiction is a disease that affects both brain and behavior. Today, thanks to science, our views and our responses to drug abuse has changed dramatically.
As a result of scientific research, we know that addiction is a chronic disease that affects both brain and behavior. Today, thanks to science, our views and our responses to drug abuse has changed dramatically. Groundbreaking discoveries about the brain have revolutionized our understanding of drug addiction, enabling us to respond effectively to the problem.
Weyland Consultation Services in the San Francisco Bay area utilizes this innovative research with a discreet and person specific outpatient drug and alcohol treatment alternative for adults and adolescents. Their cognitive behavioral approach provides a compassionate and individualized treatment approach, offering the chemically dependent person a route to recovery that is specifically tailored to their needs.
Despite these advances, many people today do not understand why individuals become addicted to drugs or how drugs change the brain to foster compulsive drug abuse. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) believes that increased understanding of the basics of addiction will empower people to make informed choices in their own lives, adopt science-based policies and programs that reduce drug abuse and addiction in their communities, and support scientific research that improves the Nation's well-being.
Weyland Consultation Services believes that drug abuse and addiction is like any other chronic disease and need not be a life sentence. Discoveries in the science of addiction have led to advances in drug abuse treatment that help people stop abusing drugs and allows an abuser to resume their productive lives. Weyland's comprehensive treatment programs enables people to counteract addiction's powerful disruptive effects on brain and behavior and regain control of their lives.
Research shows that combining treatment medications, where available, with behavioral therapy is the best way to ensure success for most patients. Some treatment medications are used to help the brain adapt gradually to the absence of the abused drug. These medications act slowly to stave off drug cravings, and have a calming effect on body systems. They can help patients focus on counseling and other psychotherapies related to their drug treatment.
Weyland's approach is tailored to address each patient's drug abuse patterns and drug-related medical, psychiatric, and social problems. They believe that different types of medications are useful at different stages of treatment to help a patient stop abusing drugs, stay in treatment, and avoid relapse.
Getting an addicted person to stop abusing drugs is just one part of a long and complex recovery process. When people enter treatment, addiction has often taken over their lives. The compulsion to get drugs, take drugs, and experience the effects of drugs has dominated their every waking moment, and drug abuse has taken the place of all the things they once enjoyed doing.
Drug addiction has disrupted how an abuser functions in their family lives, at work, and in the community, and has made them more likely to suffer from other serious illnesses. Because addiction can affect so many aspects of a person's life, treatment must address the needs of the whole person to be successful. This is why the best programs incorporate a variety of rehabilitative services into their comprehensive treatment regimens. Treatment counselors select from a menu of services for meeting the individual medical, psychological, social, vocational, and legal needs of their patients to foster their recovery from addiction.
Weyland Consultation Services specializes in designing treatment programs that address the values and beliefs of the people they serve, thereby increasing their ability to engage and participate as active collaborants in their treatment. This open-ended and person specific approach has been scientifically proven to be a strong deterrent to behavioral and chemical relapse.
Weyland Consultation Services Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a multifaceted, comprehensive and highly individualized program designed to help individuals address chemical dependency issues while remaining in their homes.
To learn more about chemical dependence treatment for teenagers and about Weyland Detox Services located in the Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area in Oakland, Berkley, Danville, Concord and Walnut Creek areas - visit our website www.weylandservices.com/ or call (925) 945-7816 ext. 41.
