Drug and Alcohol Detox Center

Extended substance abuse alters the brain, but Recovery Bay’s residential treatment offers a supportive path to recovery and healing.

Developing an Addiction

Although addiction usually takes time to develop, the disease starts when you begin using a substance in an attempt to escape from mental health issues, violence, and abuse.

Drugs and alcohol are neurotransmitter-inhibitors, forcing your brain to release more neurotransmitters than normal. From an evolutionary perspective, the success of human beings depended on their ability to perform survival tasks. These tasks resulted in a pleasurable sensation that encouraged repetition.

Drugs and alcohol provide some people with a sense that mimics happiness. The rush of neurotransmitters responsible for the pleasant effects of intoxication causes changes to your brain’s pleasure and reward centers. Eventually, the brain stops recognizing pleasure-driven messages from anywhere but the drug.

Drug and Alcohol Detox

Certain substances like alcohol and opioids can cause physical symptoms during the withdrawal period. Symptoms of withdrawal are painful, emotionally draining, and uncomfortable, but they are not usually fatal. However, withdrawal from certain substances like opioids and alcohol can even cause life-threatening complications.

For someone whose system is used to large quantities of alcohol, abruptly detoxing from alcohol can lead to delirium tremens, causing changes in body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate, which cause life-threatening seizures.

Due to the severity of certain types of detox, it is often recommended to get assistance from a drug and alcohol Florida detox program. We recommend entering into residential treatment after completing the detox process.

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Our Admissions Coordinators are available 24/7 to answer questions about treatment, admissions, or any other questions you may have about addiction care.