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Why You Should Go to Addiction Treatment Today

Are you wondering why you should seek treatment? Maybe you are addicted to drugs or alcohol and still having some second thoughts or apprehensions about drug or alcohol treatment. If you are addicted to drugs or alcohol and you need a list of reasons why you should go to addiction treatment, consider these top reasons:

Addiction Treatment Centers Make Fighting Addiction Safer—it can be dangerous to fight off addiction on your own, detox can lead to withdrawal symptoms that are uncomfortable and can even lead to health complications or death if left unsupervised and untreated. You should go to addiction treatment to assure your own safety when you are detoxing.

Addiction Treatment Centers Provide Help for Your Family—
are you struggling with the reality that your addiction has caused undue harm for your family members, loved ones and friends? Addiction treatment centers provide various types of counseling and therapy both for you and for your friends or family members to assure that the entire support system recovers from addiction.

Addiction Treatment Centers Offer Relapse Prevention—you can try to stop using on your own and you may succeed for a little while but for the maximum benefit and to make the most out of your recovery you need to learn relapse prevention techniques and you will need support long after you stop using drugs—you can get both from addiction treatment centers.

Addiction Treatment Centers Build Relationships—you can meet new people (others in recovery) at addiction treatment centers. This means that you can build new relationships with people who understand what you have been through first hand because they have been through addiction, treatment and recovery too. This can help significantly as you move through recovery.

Addiction Treatment Centers are Effective–
you may think that you can do it alone but chances are you will need support, guidance, additional care and education to assure that you maintain lasting and long term sobriety. Addiction treatment centers provide effective long term treatment that you can assure will give you the best possible chance of staying sober and moving forward with life post addiction.

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Governments’ Drug-Abuse Costs Hit $468 Billion, Study Says

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Oldham is England’s binge-drinking capital

The country’s binge-drinking capitals have been revealed in research which shows a rise in the number of hospital admissions linked to alcohol. Official figures show a 33 per cent increase in drink-related cases seen by accident and emergency departments in England since 2005, the year in which controversial 24-hour drinking reforms were introduced by the….

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