How to stop drinking: advice from a narcologist and folk methods

Alcoholism has managed to turn from a chronic disease into a dangerous social problem. Many people do not take the craving for alcohol seriously, considering it a simple bad habit that can be overcome with a simple effort of will. In fact, the chance to return to normal anda full lifeappears only after the completion of all phases of complex therapy. It is not possible to overcome the disease alone, it is necessary to seek qualified help in the treatment of drugs.

Stages of treatment

The first thing to do when dealing with alcohol addiction is to admit that there is a problem and give upvoluntary consentfor complex treatment. Forced therapy is prohibited, as well as any provision of medical assistance to a person against his will.

The alcoholic must then go through the following stages:

1. Cleansing the body of alcohol toxins.
2. Comprehensive diagnostics.
3. Coding drugs or non-drugs.
4. Psychological rehabilitation.
5. Social adaptation.

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

Folk remedies

At each stage, you must strictly follow the doctor's advice and recommendations. However, there are many families who prefer not to go to the clinic, relying on their own strength.

There are many folk remedies that promise to help treat long-term alcohol cravings. As a rule, they are based on adding ingredients to food that are incompatible with alcohol. They provokeserious deteriorationwell-being, pushing the person to decide to stop drinking. In most cases, during such treatment they aim to cause:

• headache;
• gagging
• loss of strength and general fatigue.

When a patient begins to regularly experience a terrible physical and depressed mental state after consuming alcohol, it encourages the body to give up alcohol. There are several medicinal plants that are used for this purpose.

Puppeteer

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

It is recommended to prepare a decoction, called "Celebora water", as follows:

1. Finely chop one teaspoon of the root of the doll.
2. Pour over 50 ml of boiling water.
3. Leave for one hour.
4. Strain.
5. Dilute 1 to 1 with boiled water.

Each time you need to brew a new infusion. Add no more than two drops to food or drink at first, 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, because the poison can accumulate in the body, which will also be dangerous.

Eternal Grass

You must use coffin roots and leaves. Take into account the health condition of the alcoholic, since the decoction contains poisonous substances, you must not make a mistake with the dose. It is prepared according to the following recipe:

1. Pour one tablespoon of chopped roots and leaves with a glass of water.
2. Bring the resulting mixture to a boil. Cook for no more than 30 minutes on low heat.
3. Cool.
4. Strain.

The decoction should be added in the amount of one tablespoon per glass of strong alcohol. If the patient's weight is up to 60 kg, the dose must be reduced to one teaspoon.

Mushroom from dung

If this fungus enters the food of an alcoholic, he will also want to stop drinking. But, unlike the previous options, you will have to spendmuch biggertime - from 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 must not exceed two grams in order not to damage the patient's body.

Until a person gets rid of the desire to drink,worth giving upfrom scandals and conflicts, stop resenting your relative for drinking all the time. 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 give up alcohol on his own. But you can't stop there; treatment should be continued to consolidate the effect. To give dung to an alcoholic, you must prepare it:

1. Finely chop the mushrooms.
2. Fry in a pan until the water evaporates completely.
3. Cool the resulting mushroom mass.
4. Dry.
5. Grind into powder.

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

These options include treating alcoholism without the patient's knowledge. This is an advantage when the addict cannot be forced into treatment. But at the same time, the effectiveness of mandatory treatmentlow: As long as the patient does not sincerely want to get rid of alcohol addiction, the probability of relapse will be high.

However, folk remedies do not always help qualitatively, especially in the chronic phase. There isrisk of exacerbationchronic diseases in relatives who drink, which he and his loved ones may not even suspect. Because of this, his condition can significantly deteriorate, and there is a danger of death. Therefore, if you have alcoholism, it is better not to risk it, but to turn to a drug treatment clinic for help.

Reasons for alcohol consumption

To solve the problem of alcohol addiction,i need to knowwhy the person started drinking. Often, removing the root cause will correct the situation. If he does not stop drinking after that, he will feel motivated to get rid of his alcohol addiction.

The causes of alcoholism are divided into three groups:

• social;
• physiological;
• psychologically.

In most cases, addiction is not caused by one reason, but by a combination of several reasons. Social causes of addictionit runs in the family. Many children watch their parents drink from an early age, beginning to believe that this is the norm. Even when the mother or father begins to behave inappropriately in an alcoholic state, in the child's mind this also does not contradict the norm. As a result, when the child grows up, he reproduces this behavior. In dysfunctional families, the parents themselves introduce their children to alcohol in adolescence.

Physiological causes of addiction play a big 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 who grows up in a healthy family. In addition to physiological reasons, the unfavorable social environment in which children of alcoholics grow up should also be taken into account. Addictive mental illnesses include:

• neuroses;
• schizophrenia;
• depression.

Strokes, various injuries and surgical interventions can cause a desire for alcohol. Due to these factors, a person becomes more sensitive to alcohol and psychotropic drugs, quickly becoming under their influence.

From a psychological point of view, conscious drinking isthe desire to hidefrom the surrounding reality, which categorically does not suit the person. Alcohol brings relief, but only at the beginning, it helps to relax and temporarily forget about the difficulties that have arisen. That is why it is often chosen by people who face:

• loneliness;
• not recognizing one's own successes and talents;
• insulation;
• lack of communication;
• unsettled 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 last long. Everything comes to an endthe formation of addiction, the patient himself and his environment must do something urgently so that the disease does not lead to catastrophic consequences.

How to determine addiction

Without exception, everyone close to the addict is faced with a situation in which hethe person deniesthe existence of a problem. Moreover, he can honestly believe that everything is fine with him, if he just wants to, he will immediately stop drinking. In reality this is not the case.

When a physical desire for alcoholic beverages develops, ethanol toxins are gradually deposited in the tissues and internal organs and participate in the metabolic process. This is why the patient, after drinking alcohol the previous day, does not experience a hangover the next morning, but a withdrawal syndrome that occurs due to a strong decrease in the level of ethanol in the body. There is only one way to eliminate its unpleasant and even painful symptoms - drink again. The patient entersvicious circle, overeating develops, from which it is almost impossible to get out without medical help.

Alcohol addiction 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, they don't stop until they are physically able to continue.
3. Appearancealcoholic amnesia- it is impossible to remember what happened the previous day.
4. The need to drink again in the morning to relieve the painful physical and psychological symptoms of addiction.
5. The appearance of overeating, which each time becomes stronger and longer.
6. A man cannot help but drink, even if he has important meetings and urgent business ahead of him.

If these signs appear, you should contact a professional narcologist, because it is almost impossible to deal with alcohol addiction at home.

Detoxification

The fight against the craving for alcohol should be started by cleansing the body of ethanol toxins and their 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.

Then detoxification of the drug is carried out. The patient is given drop by drop drugs in the form of solutions, which immediately enter the bloodstream, bypassing the gastrointestinal tract, and begin to work. The same method is used when necessaryemergency sobriety, for example, when a patient is hospitalized in a clinic while drunk, or when recovering from drunkenness. If the patient is drunk, using a dropper it is possible to:

1. Remove ethanol and its breakdown products from the blood within hours.
2. Stabilize the mental state so that the patient can get a good night's sleep.
3. Make up for the lack of nutrients and microelements.
4. Start the renewal processes in the body.

After that you can move on to the next stage.

Diagnostics

It is possible to achieve results in the fight against alcohol addiction if you use itpersonal approachto every alcoholic. This requires comprehensive diagnostics to determine:

• stage and duration of the disease;
• what type of alcohol the person preferred, in what quantities;
• general state of the organism;
• physiological and psychological characteristics of the body;
• allergic reactions, possible side effects, intolerance to certain drug components.

After getting a complete picture of the patient's condition, the narcologist determines which methods and drugs will be usedthe most efficient, while being safe for humans.

Coding for alcoholism

This is the next stage of 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; you must be sure that the patient has no contraindications to the use of these drugs.

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 the coded alcoholic risks drinking, all the alcohol will immediately end up in the blood. This will cause severe intoxication with the following symptoms:

• High blood pressure;
• heat;
• panic-inducing sense of impending doom;
• arrhythmia;
• depression of the respiratory centers;
• tremor;
• pains;
• auditory and visual hallucinations.

The patient urgently needs to be given an antidote, otherwise death may occur. The effectiveness of this method is that the patient not only begins to experience an aversion to alcohol, but also develops a powerful onepsychological barrier. An alcoholic begins to panic for his life, because he realizes that just one drink can lead to death. After such coding, you should be careful to exclude not only alcohol, but also all drugs that contain alcohol.

A less radical method of drug coding is the use of substance-based drugs used in the treatment of opioid addicts. This substance blocks the brain receptors responsible for pleasure and the feeling of euphoria. If the encoded person breaks down, they simply won't feel anything, so they'll decide to give up alcohol, at least for the duration of the encoding. This time should be enough for the doctors to carry out complete psychological rehabilitation, after which the person will finally be able to get rid of the craving for alcohol and return to a normal and fulfilling life.

If the alcoholic has contraindications or does not want to take strong drugs that have side effects, choosesofterdrug-free coding methods. For example, hypnotherapy. In this case, no drugs are used, and the patient is simply immersed in hypnosis, giving instructions to give up alcohol and lead a sober lifestyle. It is possible to achieve results in a few sessions.

Psychological rehabilitation

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

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 trainings;
• 12-step program;
• art therapy;
• Day Top program;
• occupational therapy;
• therapeutic communities.

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

Social adaptation

Then, preparation for returning to normal life through social adaptation is recommended. Psychologists who solve the following tasks are involved in the work:

1. They teach the patient to make new acquaintances, because alcoholics often completely lose the ability to socialize during drinking and subsequent treatment.
2. They work to restore relationships in the family, family psychotherapy contributes to this.
3. They prepare a person for employment, which 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 isdetermining the causewhich led to alcohol addiction. It is important for the psychologist to teach the patient to cope with stress and life's difficulties, without starting to reach for the glass every time. Post-rehabilitation support is provided to all patients after discharge. They can seek psychological help at any time as soon as they feel that they might relapse.

Advantages of treatment in a private drug treatment clinic

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

1. Anonymity- the patient is not registered in the clinic, 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, with obtaining a license or employment in the civil service.
2. If the condition of the alcoholic allows, he is provided with outpatient drug treatment in order to remain in a psychologically comfortable home environment.
3. When they call narcologists to your home, they respect the confidentiality of their clients. To do this, they arrive without uniform and in a car without identification tags, so that no one would suspect that your family is facing such an embarrassing problem.
4. During hospitalization in the inpatient department, every patient is insuredcomfortable roomwith everything you need. Patients are provided with a balanced diet in order to accelerate the process of restoration of internal organs and systems.
5. In their work, narcologists use only proven and safe drugs and effective methods that have proven their effectiveness.
6. Thanks to the integrated approach, it is possible to regularly achieve good results. Treatment is carried out taking into account the condition of the alcoholic.

You can find out more information about prices, services and conditions of therapy by calling the office or at a free preliminary consultation.