Texas Alcohol & Drug Rehabs Houston

Texas Alcohol & Drug Rehabs Houston

If you are a resident of Houston, Texas, and you or a loved one are struggling with a substance use disorder you may be asking yourself what are my options to deal with my substance use disorder? If you are a family member and you are wondering how to help a loved one that is dealing with an addiction to alcohol, prescription drugs, or other addictive substances where do you turn for help?

Summer Sky Treatment Center located in Stephenville, Texas has been helping residents of Houston, Texas with their alcohol or drug problems for over 37 years. Summer Sky is known as one of the Best Alcohol & Drug Rehabs in Texas. In addition to helping people from across Texas, Summer Sky is also a national provider of substance use disorder treatment.

Types of Rehab Programs & Services Offered by Summer Sky

Medical Detoxification Programs

Summer Sky offers medically monitored inpatient detoxification services for people with alcohol problems, prescription drug problems, or illicit drug addiction problems. We help a person detoxify from any addictive substance. Some drugs are dangerous to stop or discontinue from using once a person has become addicted to the substance. We recommend that if you are addicted to alcohol, sedative-hypnotic drugs, benzodiazepines, or opioid-type substances you utilize our medical detoxification program. The withdrawal syndrome associated with these substances is more critical and requires medical professionals along with medical interventions to properly detoxify.

Alcohol Detoxification Programs

Alcohol is one of the more dangerous types of substances to detoxify from and it is a substance more likely to create problems when stopping or discontinuing its usage without utilizing a medical detoxification program. Today we have modern medical interventions to help a person smoothly detoxify from alcohol while managing the withdrawal process and cravings associated with an alcohol use disorder. Summer Sky offers alcohol detoxification along with anti-craving medications to help a person with the recovery process.

Alcohol Rehabs

In Texas, there is a long history of helping people with alcohol use disorders. In 1956 the American Medical Association classified alcoholism as a disease with other organizations like the World Health Organization, and American Psychiatric Association adopting this view. Summer Sky Treatment Center® begin treating people with alcohol use disorders in 1985 and for more than 37 years we have been on the front line of helping people become from alcohol-related disorders. Our Texas alcohol rehab programs have helped thousands of people in the Houston Metropolitan Area to recover from alcohol use disorders.

What were the criteria used to classify alcoholism as a disease?

The American Medical Association (AMA) looked at research at the time and asked these questions when reviewing the collected data from thousands of cases of people with identified alcohol problems. The criteria that were used to make this decision is listed below.

Alcoholism as a Disease

Primary
Chronic
Progressive
Symptomatic
Fatal

Primary- They concluded that as an illness it does exist as a stand-alone disease. They also did acknowledge that other illnesses can manifest if the primary disease is not treated resulting in the development of other illnesses or other diseases like cirrhosis of the liver etc.

Chronic- The chronic aspect of alcoholism involves the reality that it does not just go away, or you don’t spontaneously heal. If a person does abstain from using alcohol for a period and then begins to drink alcohol later the process re-occurs all over again. It gets worse over time not better with increased usage of alcohol or diminished drinking.

Progressive- the disease gets worse over time and not better and the stages of progression are then able to be more observed with physical, psychological, and social disruptions.

Symptomatic- The diagnosis can be made based on how the illness manifests in an individual’s biological functioning, psychological functioning, and behaviors. Even an individual’s lifestyle is impacted by various symptoms.

Fatal- Alcoholism or an alcohol use disorder if left untreated can result in premature death.

Summer Sky Alcohol Rehab Programs

If you or a loved one are a resident of Houston, Texas and you are dealing with an alcohol use disorder or substance use disorder then Summer Sky would love to help you with your substance-related problems. Our admissions department can be contacted 24 hours a day 7 days a week and we can even schedule an admission into one of our alcohol rehabs or drug rehabs the same day you call if this is something you need immediately. Our number is 1-888-857-8857.

Drug Rehabs

Drug rehabs are great for helping people with addictions to alcohol, prescription drugs, or other addictive substances. Learning how to prevent a relapse from occurring along with dealing with the causes and conditions that keep a person locked into their addiction are all explored while in a drug rehab program. Most important is healing from the physical, psychological & social disruptions caused by a substance use disorder.

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