Inpatient Detoxification - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Franklin, NH.

Inpatient detoxification is essential when a person is withdrawing from substance use because there may be risks involved. In an inpatient detoxification setting in Franklin patients are closely checked for withdrawal symptoms that could bring about health complications or even death in more serious instances. Someone suffering with alcoholism for instance may need to be watched closely and possibly given specific prescription medications that works to prevent seizures and delirium tremens. Benzodiazepine withdrawal is another example that may bring about very similar withdrawal symptoms, and medical professionals in an inpatient detoxification facility can keep them safe.

There isn't an exact process for each patient in detoxification, because of the unique differences that each patient exhibits when entering the detoxification facility. Someone who is basically in good health may be in detox for 3 or 4 days and be released without much intervention, while a different patient may need intensive oversight and medical intervention for a couple weeks. Medical safety is of the greatest concern, as well as a transition to a rehabilitation facility for patients who should to attend an actual substance abuse rehabilitation facility once detox is finished. Most detoxification facilities collaborate with drug rehabilitation 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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