Addiction Treatment Center in Coral Springs, FL

Tourism is central to Florida’s economy. A decade ago, however, thousands of people made frequent trips to Florida — not to enjoy its sun, sands or theme parks, but for access to the prescription painkillers and opioids that they got at the shady walk-in clinics that were called pill mills. They dotted neighborhoods everywhere in the state. Coral Springs, in Broward County, was no different, and its local population suffered as a result of the easy access available to addictive drugs. While the pill mills have shut down, opioids and street drug habits continue to hurt the community. In the year 2017, some 630 people died of accidental overdoses in all of Broward County. Fifty of the people who lost their lives were residents of Coral Springs.

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Overdoses are usually accidental. They happen because even for experienced users, it can be hard to judge how much of a drug to take without causing the body to shut down. As thousands of people discover with hard experience, quitting a drug habit isn’t something that you do on your own. You need professional medical help.

Where can I find help?

If you struggle with a substance abuse addiction of any kind, Legacy Healing Center in Coral Springs can help you with proven, evidence-based rehab services.

While detoxification can be difficult and painful, it does eventually complete in about ten days, and leave you free of the regular, daily cravings that are a part of active addiction. Completing detoxification, however, is not the end of addiction. Addiction is a brain disorder that occurs as a result of permanent changes brought about in the brain by repeated, chronic exposure to drugs. Even once the symptoms of physical addiction do leave you post-detoxification, the effects of the brain disorder remain. Cravings can be triggered at any moment by any of a variety of environmental cues. As many as 80 percent of those who complete detoxification, but fail to engage in further therapeutic treatment, relapse and go back to drug use. The idea to keep in mind is that detoxification is not enough. You need the whole treatment package that rehab encompasses. You can only get it at a professional rehab like Legacy Healing Center, Cocoa Beach.

What is drug rehab like?

People who try detoxification on their own tend to have a simple plan – they quit cold turkey and hope that they are spared too much suffering. Medical detox, however, is about helping you in every way medical science can manage. Your cravings are addressed with drugs like methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone, your blood pressure instabilities are stabilized with beta-blockers, pain is addressed with nonaddictive painkillers, and for depression, you have staff trained in compassion and empathy to give you a boost. If you’ve been involved in substance abuse for a while, your health is likely to have suffered. In such a case, you are usually put through a gentle detoxification cycle to help your body cope. All of this, however, is only the beginning.

Once detox completes, you are freed of the cycle of cravings and consumption that marks active addiction. It’s important to understand, however, that your rehab is only partially complete at this point. You still need to address the mental disorder that is addiction.

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In rehab, expert therapists engage you to learn about the presence of possible mental disorders such as anxiety, depression or schizophrenia and decide on a course of treatment for them. Mental disorders are often a significant contributor to addictive behavior. Therapists also engage you in therapy to discover the possibility that you suffer from self-destructive thought patterns that make you seek refuge in substance abuse.

At Legacy Healing Center in Coral Springs 30-Day drug rehab, you have access to a wide range of addiction experts with years of experience treating the brain disease that is addiction.