Inpatient Detoxification - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Wasilla, AK.

Inpatient detoxification is suggested when someone is withdrawing from drugs or alcohol due to the fact that withdrawal can be dangerous. While in an inpatient detoxification setting in Wasilla patients can be closely observed for symptoms of drug or alcohol withdrawal that may cause health complications or even death in more serious cases. Someone suffering with alcoholism for example will need to be watched closely and possibly given specific prescription medications which will prevent delirium tremens and seizures. Benzodiazepine withdrawal is another type of drug that may cause very similar withdrawal effects, and nurses and doctors in the inpatient detoxification facility would keep them safe.

There isn't an exact process for each person in detox, because of the unique differences that each person exhibits when arriving to detox. Someone who is otherwise in good health may go through detox for 3 or 4 days and be released without much medical intervention, while another patient may need to have comprehensive care and intervention for 7 to 10 days or more. Medical safety is of the highest concern, and also a transition to a rehabilitation facility for individuals who need to go to an actual drug and alcohol treatment facility once detox is complete. Most detox facilities collaborate with drug treatment facilities to make this transition possible, due to the fact that detox is only the first step in a much more comprehensive rehabilitation plan for people in recovery.

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