Healing Begins Here
What is Addiction?
Addiction comes down to your brain chemistry, and no we are not talking about an egg in a frying pan. When you start taking drugs, you stimulate the reward center of your brain. That makes you feel good. So, you keep taking them thinking that there is little harm to the action, especially compared to how good it makes you feel. As time goes by, your brain cells get used to having the chemical present, and they build up a tolerance to it.
When you build up a tolerance, you need more and more to get the same feeling again. And your brain begins to think that you need the substance to survive. This is when you start to believe that obtaining a substance is more important than food or water. Here is how the cycle of addiction gets started:
- You Use To Feel Better
- You Build Up A Tolerance
- Your Body Thinks You Need The Substance To Survive
- You Begin To Prioritize Using Over Other Things
- You No Longer Have Control Over Your Drive To Use
Again, “addiction is cunning, baffling, and powerful.” For most people, it is going to take a helping hand to get over their substance use. Get help while you still can. Don’t let substances run your life anymore.
What To Expect From a Drug Rehab Center Near Beaverton
- Individual Therapy program
- Family Therapy program
- Group therapy program
- Alternative Therapy (yoga, meditation, mindfulness) and Experiential Therapy program (Art, Music, Sports, Animals)
- Learning Life Skills
- 12-Step Support Groups
You will be exposed to all these types of therapy in your treatment with the hopes of finding things that work for you at our drug addiction treatment center near Beaverton. As you find different types of treatment that you gravitate to, you will begin to come up with a long term game plan that is called your aftercare plan. Your aftercare plan will be your road map to staying sober after you leave the facility that you have chosen.
