Inpatient Detoxification - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Unity, ME.

Inpatient detoxification is essential when an individual is withdrawing from substance use considering there may be risks involved. While in an inpatient detoxification setting in Unity patients are closely observed for symptoms of drug or alcohol withdrawal which may cause health risks or even death in more serious cases. Someone with alcoholism for example would need to be watched closely and possibly administered specific prescription medications that would prevent seizures and delirium tremens. Benzodiazepine withdrawal is another example that can cause very similar symptoms, and doctors and medical staff in the inpatient detoxification facility would minimize health risks.

There is not an exact process for each patient in detox, because of the unique health differences that each person exhibits when arriving to the detoxification facility. A person who is otherwise physically and mentally healthy may undergo detox for 3 or 4 days and be discharged without much intervention, while a different patient may need intensive treatment and intervention for a couple weeks. Medical safety is of the highest concern, as well as a transition to treatment for patients who need to go to an actual substance abuse rehab program once detox is complete. Many detox facilities collaborate with drug treatment facilities to make this transition possible, since detox is only the first step in an overall treatment plan for recovering addicts.

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