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How to stop drinking: advice from narcologists and folk methods.

A man who wants to get rid of alcohol addiction.

Alcoholism has managed to go from being a chronic disease to becoming a dangerous social problem. Many people do not take the desire to drink alcohol seriously, considering it an ordinary bad habit that can be overcome with a simple effort of will. In fact, the possibility of returning to normal andfull lifeappears only after completing all stages of complex therapy. It is not possible to overcome the disease alone, it is necessary to seek specialized medical help.

Treatment stages

The first thing to do when it comes to alcohol addiction is to admit that there is a problem and givevoluntary consentfor complex treatments. Forced therapy is prohibited, as is any provision of 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. Comprehensive diagnosis.
  3. Coding of drugs or non-drugs.
  4. Psychological rehabilitation.
  5. Social adaptation.

Having successfully overcome each of these stages, the patient will have the opportunity to completely get rid of addiction.

Home remedies

At each stage, it is necessary to strictly follow the advice and recommendations of doctors. However, there are many families who prefer not to go to the clinic, trusting in their own strength.

There are many home 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 make the decision to stop drinking. In most cases, during said treatment it is intended to cause:

  • headache;
  • nausea;
  • Loss of strength and general fatigue.

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

Puppeteer

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

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

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

Every time you need to prepare a new infusion. At first, do not add more than two drops to food or drinks, gradually increasing the dose.be careful, this is a poisonous plant, so you should not add more than five drops at a time. If such treatment does not give results within a week, it is necessary to look for another method, since the poison can accumulate in the body, which will also be dangerous.

eternal grass

You need to use the roots and leaves from the coffin. Consider the state of health of the alcoholic, since the decoction contains toxic substances, you should not make a mistake with the dosage. 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 is up to 60 kg, the dose should be reduced to one teaspoon.

dung fungus

If this fungus gets into the food of an alcoholic, he will also want to stop drinking. But, unlike the previous options, you will have to spendmuch largertime: 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 herbal 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,is it worth giving upof scandals and conflicts, stop reproaching a family member because he constantly drinks. You can even, on the contrary, offer him a drink. The first results can be achieved after a few weeks, when a person begins to quit alcohol on his own. But you cannot stop there, the treatment must be continued to consolidate the effect. To give a dung mushroom to an alcoholic, you must prepare it:

  1. Chop the mushroom well.
  2. Fry in a pan until the water has completely evaporated.
  3. Cool the resulting mushroom mass.
  4. Dry.
  5. Grind until you obtain a powder.

The dung mushroom in this state does not have any smell, so the alcohol addict will not suspect anything.

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

However, home remedies do not always help qualitatively, especially in the chronic stage. existsrisk of exacerbationchronic illnesses in a drinking relative, which he or his loved ones may not even suspect. Because of this, his condition can worsen significantly and there is even a risk of death. Therefore, if you suffer from alcoholism, it is better not to take risks, but to go to a drug treatment clinic for help.

Man addicted to alcohol needs drug treatment

Reasons to drink alcohol

To solve your alcohol addiction problem,I need to knowwhy the person started drinking. Often, eliminating the root cause will correct the situation. If he doesn't even stop drinking after that, he will feel motivated to get rid of 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 addiction.lies in the family. Many children from a young age see their parents drinking and begin to believe that this is the norm. Even when a mother or father begins to behave inappropriately while drunk, in the child's mind this does not contradict the norm either. As a result, when the child grows up, she reproduces this behavior. In dysfunctional families, parents themselves introduce alcohol to their children during adolescence.

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

  • neurosis;
  • schizophrenia;
  • depression.

Strokes, various injuries, and surgical interventions 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 alcohol consumption isdesire to hidefrom the surrounding reality, which categorically does not suit a person. Alcohol really relieves, but only at first, helping to relax and temporarily forget about the difficulties that have arisen. Because of this, it is often chosen by people who face:

  • loneliness;
  • lack of recognition of one's own 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 continue for long. Everything comes to the enddependency formation, the patient himself and his surroundings must do something urgently so that the disease does not have catastrophic consequences.

How to determine addiction

Without exception, everyone close to an addict faces a situation in which he or shethe person deniesexistence of a problem. Furthermore, he may sincerely believe that everything is really fine with him; If he just wants to, he will stop drinking immediately. Actually, this is not the case.

When a physical desire to drink alcoholic beverages develops, ethanol toxins are gradually deposited in internal tissues and organs and participate in the metabolic process. Due to this, the patient, after drinking alcohol the day before, does not experience a hangover the next morning, but rather 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 the unpleasant and even painful symptoms of it: drink again. The patient entersvicious circle, a binge develops from which it is almost impossible to get out without medical help.

Alcohol dependence can also be determined by the following symptoms:

  1. There is no vomiting reaction even when drinking alcoholic beverages in large quantities.
  2. If a person starts drinking, he does not stop until he is 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 binge eating, which increasingly becomes more severe and prolonged.
  6. A person cannot avoid drinking, even if important meetings and urgent matters await him.

If these signs appear, it is worth consulting a professional narcologist, since it is almost impossible to cope with alcohol addiction at home.

detox

It is necessary to start the fight against alcohol cravings by cleansing the body of ethanol toxins and its 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.

Drug detoxification is then carried out. The patient is given a drip with 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 necessary.emergency sobrietyFor example, when a patient is hospitalized in a clinic while intoxicated, or when recovering from a binge. If the patient is intoxicated, using a dropper it is possible:

  1. Remove ethanol and its breakdown products from the blood within a few hours.
  2. Stabilize the psychological state so that the patient can sleep well at night.
  3. Replenish the deficiency of nutrients and microelements.
  4. Start restoration processes in the body.

After this, you can move on to the next stage.

A narcologist diagnoses and treats alcoholism.

Diagnosis

It is possible to achieve results in the fight against alcohol addiction if it is used.personal approachto every alcohol addict. This requires a comprehensive diagnosis to determine:

  • stage and duration of the disease;
  • 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.

Having received a complete picture of the patient's condition, the narcologist determines what methods and medications will beThe most effective, being safe for humans.

Coding for alcoholism

This is the next stage in dealing with alcohol addiction. According to reviews and forum posts, drug coding using drugs based on tetraethylthioperoxycarbodiamide effectively helps to stop drinking. However, this method has many side effects, it is necessary to ensure that the patient does not have contraindications to using these remedies.

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

  • hypertension;
  • heat;
  • a feeling of impending death that causes panic;
  • arrhythmia;
  • depression of the respiratory centers;
  • shaking;
  • pains;
  • auditory and visual hallucinations.

The patient urgently needs an antidote, otherwise death may occur. The effectiveness of this method is that the patient not only begins to experience aversion to alcohol, but also develops a powerfulpsychological barrier. An alcohol addict begins to panic for his life, as he understands that a single drink can cause death. After such coding, care must be taken to exclude not only alcohol, but also all alcohol-containing medications.

A less radical method of drug coding is the use of drugs based on a substance used in the treatment of opioid addicts. This substance blocks the brain receptors responsible for pleasure and the feeling of euphoria. If the coded person collapses, they simply will not feel anything, so they will decide to give up alcohol, at least for the duration of the coding. This time should be enough for doctors to carry out complete psychological rehabilitation, after which the person will finally be able to get rid of the desire to drink alcohol and return to a normal, full life.

If an alcoholic has contraindications or he himself does not want to take powerful medications that have side effects, choosesofternon-pharmacological coding methods. For example, hypnotherapy. In this case, no medications are used and the patient is simply immersed in hypnosis, instructing them to give up alcohol and lead a sober lifestyle. It is possible to achieve results in several sessions.

Psychological rehabilitation

With the help of coding, it is possible to overcome physical cravings for alcohol; To cope with psychological addiction, it is necessary to undergo a rehabilitation course in an inpatient drug treatment center. Private clinics provide the possibility of anonymous hospitalization, they care about the confidentiality of their patients.

The diagnostic results also help to understand which techniques will work best with a particular drug addict. There are quite a few options:

  • group and individual psychological training;
  • 12-step program;
  • art therapy;
  • Superior Day Program;
  • occupational therapy;
  • therapeutic communities.

The duration of rehabilitation ranges from several months.until a year. It all depends on how serious the patient's addiction is, how much he himself wants to stop drinking.

Social adaptation

Next, it is recommended to prepare for returning to normal life through social adaptation. The work involves psychologists who solve the following tasks:

  1. They teach the patient to make new friends, since alcohol addicts often completely lose the ability to socialize in society during their drunkenness and subsequent treatment.
  2. They are working to restore relationships in 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 and unwind without drinking alcohol.

Another important result of this work isestablishing causeswhich led to alcohol addiction. It is important for a psychologist to teach the patient to cope with stress and life's difficulties without having to pick up a glass every time. After discharge, all patients receive post-rehabilitation support. They can seek psychological help at any time as soon as they feel they may relapse again.

Advantages of treatment at a private drug treatment clinic

In the treatment of alcohol addiction in a paid center for the fight against alcoholism and drug addiction, all patients and their families are guaranteed:

  1. Anonymity– the patient is not registered in the medicine dispensary, as is done in state clinics. Thanks to this, a person does not end up in the databases of various government bodies, and in the future he will not have problems, for example, obtaining a license or finding employment in the civil service.
  2. If the alcoholic's condition allows, he is provided with outpatient drug treatment so that he can remain in a psychologically comfortable home environment.
  3. By calling narcologists at your home, they respect their client's confidentiality. To do this, they arrive without uniforms and in a car without identification marks, so that no one suspects that their family is facing such a shameful problem.
  4. When hospitalized in an inpatient department, each patient receivescomfortable roomWith all you need. Patients are given a balanced diet to accelerate the process of restoration of internal organs and systems.
  5. In their work, narcologists use only proven, safe medications and effective methods that have been proven effective.
  6. It is possible to achieve good results regularly thanks to an integrated approach. Treatment is carried out taking into account the condition of the alcohol addict.

You can find out more information about prices, services and conditions of therapy by calling a drug treatment clinic or in a free preliminary consultation.