Alcohol Detox

Our clinical team at Ocean Recovery provide a full detoxification service within our effective alcohol rehabilitation programme. This is simply the safest and most effective way to overcome alcoholism.

Our alcohol addiction withdrawal treatment takes places as part of our specialised detoxification programme, where every trace of the substance is withdrew from your body in a medically supervised environment – all of our detoxification programmes come with a FREE 12 month aftercare package.

Our alcohol detox treatment programme is designed to assist clients to manage new strategies to control their alcohol use or achieve total sobriety from alcohol. Choosing our treatment programme will mean you will need an initial alcohol detox programme.

The purpose of this is to remove the alcohol within your system with clinical support,  to ensure you safely detox from alcohol and can cope with the withdrawal effects that you may experience whilst detoxing.

Undergoing an alcohol detox is the first step towards getting into recovery. Below, we answer many of the questions you may have regarding both alcohol detox and alcohol rehabilitation. We then provide contact details so you may get in touch and discover how we may help you.

What Happens During An Alcohol Detox Programme?

An alcohol detox at an alcohol detox clinic allows you to stop drinking alcohol in a medically controlled manner. An alcohol detox begins as soon as you arrive at a rehab clinic.

Before your detox begins, you will be assessed by a psychiatrist. You will then be assigned to a therapist and key worker. These professionals will assist you throughout the programme.

During the initial assessment, a psychiatrist will ask you questions about your alcoholism. During this assessment, the psychiatrist will gather all relevant information about your health and any past alcoholism treatments you may have undergone.

It is vital to answer these questions correctly and thoroughly. The information you provide will help the psychiatrist in developing your individual detox and rehab plan.

The psychiatrist will also carry out a complete physical and mental examination with you. This will help to unearth any conditions that must be treated during your recovery programme. You will then be prescribed suitable medication to help fight off alcohol withdrawal symptoms inevitably arising during the alcohol detox process.

After completing this initial assessment, you will be shown around the rehab clinic and you will be taken to your room. You will then meet with your assigned therapist and key worker. These professionals will explain what happens during your detox and rehab programme.

After all the above formalities have been completed, you will be placed under close observation for the first 24-72 hours whilst you commence your detoxification treatment.

This enables our team to closely observe how you respond to this treatment and ensure you remain comfortable and safe throughout the process. If you are a ‘chronic alcoholic’ then it is likely you will be at risk of serious withdrawal and so our team will monitor you closely for signs of serious illnesses associated with alcohol withdrawal such as Delirium Tremens.

During an alcohol detox programme, a lot of emphases is placed on nutrition. When you abuse alcohol, you also tend to eat all the wrong foods. It’s also likely that you haven’t eaten enough food, so you could be experiencing malnutrition. Our alcohol detox clinic will make sure you have a nutritional diet.

To help treat malnutrition during your alcohol detox programme, lots of quality food will be offered. You do not have to cook and prepare this food yourself because the detox clinic employs qualified chefs to ensure you are eating correctly. Meal plans are designed by a qualified dietician.

Once the first 24-48 hours are completed, our team will work with you to start to plan and build your alcohol rehab programme which will focus on a range of therapies to help you start to deal with your addiction, understand why you drink, how it effects your life and what you want to achieve during your treatment programme with us.

A typical alcohol detox programme in an alcohol detox clinic is run over a 7-10 day period. During this time, alcohol withdrawal symptoms will be closely monitored and treated. You will be given drugs such as Librium, disulfiram and naltrexone to help control cravings and to treat alcohol withdrawal symptoms.

Medications to help reduce alcohol withdrawal symptoms are not the sole treatment you receive during an alcohol detox programme. You will also benefit from a range of therapies. These therapies are offered whilst you undergo an alcohol detox programme.

At Ocean Recovery, we have a experienced addiction staff and therapists, along with range of psychiatrists, psychologists,  that are here to help you through any of your problems. You will be allocated your own worker, who will help you design your Recovery Action Plan (RAP) and guide you every step of the way on your new journey to recovery.

How to Ease Alcohol Detox Symptoms

There exist many different ways to reduce alcohol detox symptoms. By far the best way to treat these symptoms with a drug known as Librium. Librium is a benzodiazepine.

Librium allows you to undergo an alcohol detox by slowly allowing chemicals in your brain to readjust without the sudden ‘jolt’ that would otherwise occur when alcohol consumption is abruptly stopped.

Librium does not utterly prevent alcohol withdrawal symptoms, but it does vastly reduce these symptoms, particularly the more dangerous symptoms such as DTs.

We also prescribe secondary medications that help to reduce alcohol cravings. You will be prescribed Librium and other medications over the course of a 10-day alcohol detox at an alcohol detox clinic. These medications will be gradually reduced over this period.

Alcohol Detox with Insurance

Many alcohol detox clinics allow you to pay for your treatment through a valid health insurance policy. Ocean Recovery Centre is no exception in this regard. To claim through your insurer, you must download a claim form from your insurer’s website.

You then send our admission’s team this claim form so that our physician may complete this claim form on your behalf. We then send the completed claim form to your insurer for processing.

Your insurer’s claim handlers will then review your application and then decide to grant, conditionally grant or reject your claim for rehab funding.

If you claim is reject, our admissions team will then discuss other funding options that may be available to you. This may include self-funding and advice on paying through a payment plan.

Outclient vs. Inclient Alcohol Detox

When you enquire about going to an alcohol detox clinic, you will quickly discover the existence of inclient and outclient options. Whilst the distinction between the two may sound obvious, the benefits and drawbacks of each are often less apparent.

Inclient treatment involves greater expense than outclient treatment. However, this cost is well spent given that inclient treatment is far more intensive than outclient treatment.

When you attend an inclient clinic, you will benefit from 24-hour care. This is vital given that an alcohol detox is a sufficiently dangerous procedure to warrant the need for 24-hour medical care.

When you attend an inclient clinic, you will focus on your recovery 24-hours a day. This means inclient rehab is intensive and thus highly effective. Because you are removed from your home, you will also be removed from the stresses of daily life. This allows you to invest your energy solely on your recovery.

During your time at an inclient clinic, you will take part in group therapy, individual therapy and complementary therapies throughout the day. Inclient treatment is particularly advantageous for those of you who also suffer from dually diagnosed mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.

Outclient treatment allows you to receive therapy and treatments during the day. However, you return to your home following the completion of daily sessions. The key advantage of outclient treatment is that your professional and family life are unimpeded.

Outclient treatment is particularly beneficial for those of you who suffer from mild alcoholism. If you choose to attend an outclient clinic, you would be well advised to attend an intensive outclient programme where therapies and treatments run over an entire day, and not for just one or two hours a day.

Can You Carry Out An Alcohol Detox At Home?

According to the World Health Organization’s 2018 Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health, there are over 3 million people who die from the harmful effects of alcohol on a yearly basis, and this amounts to more than 5% of the burden of disease world-wide

Alcohol is yet still seen as an innocent substance, however, it is still a dangerous substance that could destroy lives , relationships, ambitions and dreams. The longer you abuse alcohol, the more difficult it becomes to stop drinking alcohol. For many alcohol addicts, alcohol detox becomes the only option to get rid of the alcohol in your body.

Alcohol detox however, is not something you can easily do by yourself. The process of detoxifying refers to removing all toxins from your body, and alcohol detox is therefore the process of removing all traces of alcohol from your body.

Because alcohol affects almost every cell in the body, it is very complicated to withdraw from it. Rehabilitation clinics generally recommend that those affected by alcoholism complete an alcohol detox programme before entering rehabilitation. It is necessary for all traces of alcohol to be removed from the body so that the person is completely clean before attempting rehab.

Learn More About Our Alcohol Treatment Options

Get in touch with us today and we will talk to you about our different treatment options. If you’re worried that you have any of these symptoms of alcohol dependence, or you’d like to learn more about the withdrawal process, then contact us and see how we may be able to help.

There are a number of questions which we are regularly asked surrounding alcohol detoxification, so we have answered some of the most common queries below.