Treatment of alcoholism

Frequently, at the reception, when asking about treatment of alcoholism, patients and their relatives are waiting for a miracle in reply, «encoding», «sewings». The stereotype of alcoholism treatment, as it took place in our society for years, often looks like «clean out and encode», thus, as if the human personality suffering from this illness is excluded from the process of treatment beforehand. Taking into account the experience of narcology and modern approaches to this illness, the physicians of our Centre consider alcohol addiction not only as a disease of the «body», undoubtedly having disorders in work of all functional systems of the body in its base, but also as «a disease of the soul», which can be cured only by considering specificity of the human personality having referred to for help, at his active paricipation. This disease affects not the intellect, not knowledge of life and not will-power. It affects opinion, mentality! That is what triggers all these three tools.

Our medical programs are developed with the condition of a person having appealed to for help taken into account. They include arresting of alcoholic intoxication, as well as hard drinking and alcoholic abstinence syndrome. These are short programs that allow to take a patient out of the pathological distressful state quickly, to normalize the body functions, to balance the emotional background, to remove anxiety and to normalize sleep. But the basic ones are medical and rehabilitation programs directed to treatment of addiction, which require participation of the patient and his personalitiy.

There are two basic concepts in treatment of alcoholism: active participation of a patient and absolute soberness, as a result. Convalescence depends not only on medications, but also on a fact, how much a person changes the way of life, system of interests and values, rearranges or acquires spiritual life, changes all aspects of his or her existence, relationships with the world and with himself or herself, his or her demands. Indeed, the list of man’s natural demands does not include need in alcohol, but there is a very important need in self-esteem, in a high enough self-estimation and per se - a need to be in peace with himself/herself. Only retention of self-esteem, image of yourself as a worthy person, matched to your own ideals allows a person to retain an integral behaviour, optimism in face of failures and troubles; high activity under conditions of ambiguity, that is under conditions of everyday existence, where ambiguity accompanies the most important decisions and acts in your destiny: a decision what to be in this life, whom to link your life with, how to behave under conditions of the conflict between a wish and duty.

Our therapeutic programs allow a patient appealed for help to pass through the whole cycle of withdrawal from addiction, by restoring not only the work of the functional systems of the body and biochemical disorders, but by accompanying him/her in his or her decision-making «to be sober», in change of the value system, in building-up new relationships with the world, as well.

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