What is Drug Addiction Case Management?

Posted by anna willard on March 3rd, 2020

Substance use disorders (SUDs) include misuse of prescription or illicit drugs and problematic substance abuse. SUDs pose serious health problems to the addicted person. Continuous use of sedative drugs leads to dependence and addiction which means your body systems are used to working in the presence of the abused substances. Therefore, quitting can be quite difficult and painful. A  medically supervised detox can aid in this regard. Detox is the first step in the treatment of drug addiction. In this process, the abused drug along with its harmful metabolites are eliminated from your body. After this, other steps are initiated which include behavioural and holistic therapies. You may also like to avail yoga, meditation, and therapeutic massage etc. These activities are quite helpful in managing distressing withdrawal symptoms. Another step is Drug Addiction Case Management, which is described below. 

Drug Addiction Case Management: 

Case management is guiding the patient struggling with addiction during this  journey from detox to discharge. Once an addiction patient has gone through acute drug detox, he or she needs counselling for motivation to prevent relapse. Licensed counsellors, psychiatrists and psychologists help an addict after the first step. Both individual and group counselling sessions have been reported to be beneficial in this aspect. Our experts enforce the patient's thought process of staying clean and sober. Patient also gains confidence that he or she can be part of society, be a normal person and he can return to normal life with some effort. Physicians also keep an eye on the patient to see if his water and electrolytes are balanced. IV fluids are given to maintain a balance and prevent life threatening conditions like delirium tremens (DT) and alcohol withdrawal seizures etc. Patients are guided on how to take care of themselves after being discharged from our rehabilitation center. Patients are counselled on how to prevent relapse. Multiple sessions are usually needed for good results.

Drug Addiction Treatment Center Boston, MA:

We at Unique Health provide both medical detox and drug addiction case management in our facilities in Lowell/Chelmsford and Boston/Wellesley, MA areas. Our great team of world class addiction doctors, physicians, psychiatrists, counsellors, psychologist and drug addiction treatment experts are always at your service. We provide patients with a complete treatment plan that consists of detox followed by case management. 

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