Inpatient Detoxification - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Gorham, IL.

Inpatient detoxification is essential when someone is withdrawing from drugs or alcohol because withdrawal can be dangerous. While in an inpatient detoxification setting in Gorham individuals can be closely monitored for withdrawal symptoms that may cause health complications or even death in more severe instances. Someone struggling with alcoholism for instance may need to be closely monitored and possibly given specific prescription drugs which will prevent delirium tremens and seizures. Prescription benzodiazepine withdrawal is another example that may cause very similar withdrawal effects, and doctors and medical staff in the inpatient detox facility will keep them safe.

There isn't an exact protocol for each individual in detox, because of the unique health differences that each patient exhibits when arriving to detox. Someone who is otherwise in good health may undergo detox for 3 or 4 days and be discharged without much intervention, while a different patient may need comprehensive supervision and intervention for 7 to 10 days or more. Health safety is of the highest concern, as well as a transition to a rehabilitation facility for individuals who should to attend an actual substance abuse treatment facility once detoxification is complete. Most detox facilities collaborate with drug treatment facilities to make this transition possible, due to the fact that detox is merely the first step in an overall recovery plan for recovering addicts.

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