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How to stop drinking: advice from narcologists and traditional methods

A man who wants to get rid of his alcohol addiction

Alcoholism has gone from a chronic disease to a dangerous social problem. Many people do not take the craving for alcohol seriously, considering it an ordinary bad habit that can be overcome by a simple effort of will. In fact, the chance to return to normal andfull lifeappears only after completing all stages of complex therapy. It is not possible to defeat the disease on your own; you must seek qualified medical help.

Treatment stages

The very first thing to do when dealing with alcohol addiction is to admit there is a problem and givevoluntary consentfor complex treatment. Forced therapy is prohibited, as is any medical assistance to a person against their will.

The alcoholic must then go through the following stages:

  1. Cleanse the body of alcohol toxins.
  2. Complete diagnosis.
  3. Coding of drugs or non-drugs.
  4. Psychological rehabilitation.
  5. Social adaptation.

After successfully overcoming each of these stages, the patient will have a chance to completely get rid of his addiction.

Folk remedies

At each stage, you must strictly follow the advice and recommendations of doctors. However, many families prefer not to go to the clinic, relying on their own strength.

There are many folk remedies that promise to help cure alcohol cravings that persist for a long time. As a rule, they are based on the addition of components incompatible with alcohol to food. They provokeserious deteriorationwell-being, pushing a person to the decision to stop drinking. In most cases, during such treatment, they are aimed at causing:

  • headache;
  • retching;
  • loss of strength and general fatigue.

When a patient begins to regularly experience a terrible physical and psychological state after drinking alcohol, this triggers the body to give up alcohol. Several medicinal plants are used for these purposes.

Puppeteer

An infusion of the roots should be added to soft drinks or food. The patientI won't feel anything. If you drink after that, the patient begins to experience nausea, which turns into vomiting, and the aversion to alcohol subsequently increases significantly.

It is recommended to prepare the decoction, called "helebore water", as follows:

  1. Finely chop a teaspoon of marionette roots.
  2. Pour 50 ml of boiling water.
  3. Leave for an hour.
  4. Strain.
  5. Dilute 1 to 1 with boiled water.

Each time you have to prepare a new infusion. At first, add no more than two drops to food or drinks, gradually increasing the dose.be careful, it is a poisonous plant, so you should not add more than five drops at a time. If such treatment does not give results after a week, you should look for another method, since the poison can accumulate in the body, which will also be dangerous.

Everlasting Grass

You need to use the roots and leaves from the coffin. Take into account the state of health of the alcoholic, since the decoction contains toxic substances, you should not make a mistake with the dose. It is prepared according to the following recipe:

  1. Pour a tablespoon of chopped roots and leaves into a glass of water.
  2. Bring the resulting mixture to a boil. Boil for no more than 30 minutes over low heat.
  3. Cool.
  4. Strain.

The decoction should be added at the rate of one tablespoon per glass of strong alcohol. If the patient's weight does not exceed 60 kg, the dose should be reduced to one teaspoon.

Dung mushroom

If this fungus gets into the food of an alcoholic, he will also want to stop drinking. But unlike previous options, you will have to spendmuch biggertime - from one to three months. First you need to collect dung mushrooms, they grow in large quantities in the forest. They are also sold in pharmacies in the herbalist section. The daily dose should not exceed two grams so as not to harm the patient's body.

While a person gets rid of the desire to drink,it's worth giving upscandals and conflicts, stop blaming a loved one because he constantly drinks. On the contrary, you can even offer him a drink. The first results can be achieved after a few weeks, when a person begins to give up alcohol on their own. But we cannot stop there, we must continue the treatment to consolidate the effect. To give a manure mushroom to an alcoholic, you must prepare it:

  1. Carefully chop the mushroom.
  2. Fry in a pan until the water has completely evaporated.
  3. Cool the resulting mushroom mass.
  4. Dry.
  5. Reduce to powder.

The manure mushroom in this state has no smell, so the alcoholic will not suspect anything.

The options listed involve treating alcoholism without the patient's knowledge. This is an advantage when it is not possible to force the addict into treatment. But at the same time, the effectiveness of mandatory treatmentweak: Until the patient sincerely wants to get rid of alcohol addiction, the risk of relapse will be high.

However, folk remedies do not always help qualitatively, especially in the chronic stage. Existrisk of exacerbationchronic diseases in a drinking parent, which he and his loved ones may not even suspect. As a result, his condition can deteriorate considerably and there is even a risk of death. Therefore, if you suffer from alcoholism, it is better not to take risks, but to visit a drug treatment clinic for help.

Alcoholic man needs drug treatment

Reasons to drink alcohol

To solve your alcohol addiction problem,must knowwhy the person started drinking. Often, eliminating the root cause will correct the situation. If he doesn't even stop drinking after this, he will feel motivated to kick his alcohol addiction.

The causes of alcoholism are divided into three groups:

  • social;
  • physiological;
  • psychological.

In most cases, addiction is not caused by a single reason, but by a combination of several reasons. Social causes of addictionresides in the family. Many children from a young age watch their parents drink and begin to believe that it is the norm. Even when a father or mother begins to behave inappropriately while drunk, this also does not contradict the norm in the child's mind. As a result, when the child grows up, he reproduces this behavior. In dysfunctional families, parents themselves introduce their children to alcohol from adolescence.

Physiological causes of addiction play a major role.The most common– brain diseases and bad heredity. Bad genes are found in almost all children born to drug-addicted mothers. And if only the father drinks, the child is five times more likely to become dependent on alcohol than a teenager growing up in a healthy family. In addition to physiological reasons, it is necessary to take into account the unfavorable social environment in which children of alcoholics grow up. Among the psychological illnesses that cause addiction are:

  • neuroses;
  • schizophrenia;
  • depression.

Strokes, various injuries and surgical procedures can cause alcohol cravings. Due to these factors, a person becomes more vulnerable to alcohol and psychotropic drugs, and quickly becomes influenced by them.

From a psychological point of view, conscious drinking isdesire to hidefrom the surrounding reality, which categorically does not suit a person. Alcohol certainly brings relief, but only at the beginning, helping to relax and temporarily forget the difficulties that have arisen. For this reason, it is often chosen by people faced with:

  • solitude;
  • lack of recognition of their successes and talents;
  • isolation;
  • lack of communication;
  • unstable life.

Often these conditions cause resentment towards the entire surrounding society, a constant feeling of anxiety, uncertainty and personal inferiority. Alcohol becomes a relaxant. But this cannot last long. Everything comes to an endthe formation of dependence, the patient himself and his environment must urgently do something so that the disease does not lead to catastrophic consequences.

How to determine addiction

Without exception, all relatives of a drug addict are faced with a situation in which hethe person deniesexistence of a problem. Moreover, he can sincerely believe that everything is really fine with him, if he just wants it, he will immediately stop drinking. In reality, this is not the case.

When a physical craving for alcoholic beverages develops, toxins from ethanol gradually settle into internal tissues and organs and participate in the metabolic process. As a result, the patient, having drunk alcohol the day before, does not experience a hangover the next morning, but a withdrawal syndrome that occurs due to a sharp decrease in the level of ethanol in the body. . There is only one way to eliminate its unpleasant and even painful symptoms: to drink again. The patient entersvicious circle, a frenzy develops, from which it is almost impossible to escape without medical help.

Alcohol dependence can also be determined by the following symptoms:

  1. No vomiting reaction even when consuming alcoholic beverages in large quantities.
  2. If a person starts drinking, they don't stop until they are physically able to continue.
  3. Appearancealcoholic amnesia– it is impossible to remember what happened the day before.
  4. The need to drink again in the morning to relieve the painful physical and psychological symptoms of addiction.
  5. The appearance of bulimia attacks, which each time become more serious and longer.
  6. A person cannot stop drinking, even if important meetings and urgent matters await him.

If these signs appear, you should contact a professional narcologist, because it is almost impossible to cope with alcohol addiction at home.

Detoxification

It is necessary to begin the fight against alcohol cravings by cleansing the body of ethanol toxins and their breakdown products. This will happen naturally if you stop drinking completely for at least a week. But with chronic addiction, the patient simply cannot endure such a period without alcohol.

Next, drug detoxification is carried out. The patient is given an infusion of drugs in the form of solutions, which immediately enter the bloodstream, bypassing the gastrointestinal tract, and begin to act. The same method is used when necessaryemergency sobering up, for example, when a patient is hospitalized in a clinic intoxicated or when recovering from a binge. If the patient is intoxicated, using a dropper it is possible to:

  1. Remove ethanol and its breakdown products from the blood within hours.
  2. Stabilize the psychological state so that the patient can get a good night's sleep.
  3. Fill the deficiency of nutrients and microelements.
  4. Launch restorative processes in the body.

After that, you can move on to the next step.

A narcologist diagnoses and treats alcoholism

Diagnostic

It is possible to achieve results in the fight against alcohol addiction if you consumepersonal approachto all alcoholics. This requires a complete diagnosis to determine:

  • stage and duration of illness;
  • what type of alcohol the person preferred, in what quantities;
  • general condition of the body;
  • physiological and psychological characteristics of the body;
  • allergic reactions, possible side effects, intolerance to individual components of drugs.

After receiving a complete picture of the patient's condition, the narcologist determines which methods and medications will be used.the most efficient, while being safe for humans.

Coding for alcoholism

This is the next step in the fight against alcohol addiction. According to reviews and posts on forums, drug coding using tetraethylthioperoxycarbodiamide drugs effectively helps to quit drinking. However, this method has many side effects; it is necessary to ensure that the patient has no contraindications to the use of these remedies.

The action of tetraethylthioperoxycarbodiamide is to block liver enzymes that break down alcohol toxins that are toxic to humans.safe substances, which are then freely excreted from the body. If the enzymes are not working and a coded alcoholic takes the risk of drinking, all the alcohol will immediately end up in the bloodstream. This will cause severe poisoning with the following symptoms:

  • high blood pressure;
  • heat;
  • a feeling of imminent death that causes panic;
  • arrhythmia;
  • depression of respiratory centers;
  • trembling;
  • pain;
  • auditory and visual hallucinations.

The patient must urgently receive an antidote, otherwise death may occur. The effectiveness of this method lies in the fact that the patient not only begins to experience an aversion to alcohol, but also develops a powerful feeling of aversion to alcohol.psychological barrier. An alcoholic begins to panic for his life, as he understands that just one drink can lead to death. After such coding, you should be careful to exclude not only alcohol, but also all alcohol-containing medications.

A less drastic method of drug coding is to use drugs based on a substance used in the treatment of opioid addicts. This substance blocks the brain receptors responsible for pleasure and feelings of euphoria. If the encoded person breaks down, they simply won't feel anything, so they will decide to give up alcohol, at least for the duration of the encoding. This time should be enough for doctors to carry out comprehensive psychological rehabilitation, after which the person will finally be able to get rid of the desire for alcohol and return to a normal and fulfilling life.

If an alcoholic has contraindications or he himself does not want to take strong drugs with side effects, choosesofternon-drug coding methods. For example, hypnotherapy. In this case, no medications are used, and the patient is simply immersed in hypnosis, giving him instructions to give up alcohol and lead a sober life. It is possible to obtain results in several sessions.

Psychological rehabilitation

With the help of coding, it is possible to overcome physical cravings for alcohol; To deal with psychological addiction, you need to complete a rehabilitation course at an inpatient drug treatment center. Private clinics offer the possibility of anonymous hospitalization; they care about the confidentiality of their patients.

Diagnostic results also help to understand which techniques will work best with a particular addict. There are many options:

  • group and individual psychological training;
  • 12 Step Program;
  • art therapy;
  • Day Top Program;
  • occupational therapy;
  • therapeutic communities.

The duration of rehabilitation varies from several monthsUp to a year. It all depends on the severity of the patient's addiction and their willingness to stop drinking.

Social adaptation

Then, it is recommended to prepare for the return to normal life by adapting socially. The work involves psychologists who solve the following tasks:

  1. They teach the patient to make new acquaintances, because alcoholics often completely lose the ability to socialize in society during their drinking binges and subsequent treatment.
  2. They strive to restore relationships within the family, family psychotherapy contributes to this.
  3. They prepare a person for employment, this is an important condition for successful socialization.
  4. They help you find new hobbies and teach you how to relax without drinking alcohol.

Another important result of this work isestablish the causeswhich led to alcohol addiction. It is important for a psychologist to teach the patient to cope with stress and life difficulties without having to look for a drink every time. After discharge, all patients receive post-rehabilitation support. They can seek psychological help at any time as soon as they feel they are at risk of relapsing.

Benefits of Treatment at a Private Addiction Treatment Clinic

When treating alcohol addiction in a paid alcohol and drug addiction center, all patients and their relatives are guaranteed:

  1. Anonymity– the patient is not registered at the dispensary, as is the case in public clinics. Thanks to this, a person does not end up in the databases of various government agencies, and in the future he will not have any problems, for example, with obtaining a license or finding a job in the civil service.
  2. If the alcoholic's condition allows it, he or she benefits from outpatient drug treatment in order to remain in a psychologically comfortable family environment.
  3. When calling narcologists to your home, they respect their client's confidentiality. To do this, they arrive without uniform and in a car without identification marks, so that no one suspects that your family is facing such a shameful problem.
  4. When hospitalized in an inpatient department, each patient receivescomfortable roomwith everything you need. Patients receive a balanced diet to accelerate the process of restoration of internal organs and systems.
  5. In their work, narcologists use only proven, safe drugs and effective methods that have proven their effectiveness.
  6. It is possible to consistently achieve good results using an integrated approach. Treatment is carried out taking into account the condition of the alcoholic.

More information on prices, services and therapy conditions can be obtained by calling a drug treatment clinic or during a free preliminary consultation.