Drug and Alcohol Rehab West Sussex

If you or a loved one is suffering with an addiction the best thing you could do is seek help.

Here are Step One Recovery, we provide residential addiction treatment across the UK and in Europe. Our drug and alcohol rehabilitation centres offer luxury accommodation combined with holistic, personalised treatment plans to help you, or your loved one achieve long term recovery.

If left untreated your addiction will only get worse. Your world will slowly fall apart, as you’ll push your loved ones away, you may lose your job as your focus shifts to your next fix and you might encounter financial difficulty as your consumption levels rise. It’s never too late to seek help and, at Step One Recovery, we can help you rebuild your life and create a future to look forward to.

Give our friendly and supportive team a call today to see how we can help you turn your life around.

What Is Addiction?

Addiction is defined as something you continually do, despite the harm it causes you. It’s a habitual behaviour that is established due to past trauma, mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression, early childhood developmental environments, or stress in life; to name a few.

Due to the fact that the cause of addiction will vary person to person, personalised treatment is required to ensure that both physical and psychological impacts of addiction are being treated effectively to allow long term recovery.

It can be extremely difficult to identify if you or a loved one is suffering with an addiction. Firstly, if you’re an addict, denial becomes a large part of you life, as its often the hardest step of rehab to admit to your addiction. Secondly, as an addict, you’ll learn to function with your substance misuse, meaning your addiction can be hard to spot for the naked eye.

Alcohol Addiction

If you’re an alcoholic then you’re suffering from alcoholism, which is a drinking problem. It may start off as just the extra drink here and there, but soon it’ll engulf your life, meaning you cannot function without alcohol in your system. Your body’s reliance on this substance makes it hard to focus on daily life and causes both physical and psychological impairments.
These are some key signs and symptoms of alcoholism:
• Fatigue and looking unwell, facial discolouration
• More irritable and anxious
• Increase in mental health issues such as depression and anxiety
• Lack of concentration and focus, even the simplest of tasks becomes difficult
• Lack of hygiene
• Need to drink more and appearing intoxicated more often
• Lack of interest in usual activities.

If left untreated, alcoholism can cause irreversible damage to your body, in particular your liver. If you think you have an addiction it’s vital that you seek help.

Drug Addiction

Anyone can become an addict and you can become addicted to a variety of substances or actions. A drug addiction is similar to most other addictions, as it isolates you from anyone that cares about your wellbeing and can lead you into debt as you try desperately to sustain your habit.

These are some warning signs and symptoms if you’re worried about yourself or a loved one:
• Built up tolerance to the drugs, so the need to take more
• Change in personality; more anxious, irritable
• Frequent mood swings
• Loss of interest in usual activities
• Isolating yourself often from others
• Deceptive and secretive, often stealing to help sustain your habit
• Insomnia, or sleeping more often
• Change in appearance, maybe losing or gaining weight, bloodshot eyes, bad breath, shaking
• New social circle

Recovery from a drug or alcohol addiction can cause you to experience withdrawal symptoms, as your body has grown dependant on the substance to function normally. When the consumption levels are reduced you’ll experience a range of withdrawal symptoms, from headaches, to heart palpitations, as your body readjusts to life without the substance. It’s extremely important that detox is only attempted under medical supervision.

Health Impacts Of Addiction

Addiction causes both physical and psychological health implications, which is why dual diagnosis treatment is the most successful in maintaining long term recovery.
In terms of the physical consequences of addiction, the more severe the addiction and the longer you sustain it, the more likely it is that you’ll cause irreversible damage to your body. Alcoholism, for instance, is well known for causing irreversible liver damage. Since the liver is a main organ that cannot be lived without, you’ll spend the rest of your life on medication or treatment to help your body cope with the lasting damage.

For some people the damage they have caused through their addiction is just too much as their bodies do not make it to recovery.

Alongside the physical implications, there are also psychological implications of addiction, as substance misuse drives mental health issues. Anxiety and depression are the most common issues faced by addicts, and if they are not treated during rehab, it’s likely these issues will arise at a later date and cause a relapse.

Drug and Alcohol Rehab in West Sussex

At Step One Recovery, we provide drug and alcohol rehab in West Sussex. With access to dual diagnosis, personalised treatment plans that include drug and alcohol detoxification, alongside holistic therapy treatments, we’ll help you identify the root causes of your addiction and prepare you for a new alcohol and drugs free life.

Our residential addiction treatments are conducted within luxury, modern rehab centres. With comfortable living quarters, meals provided and a range of workshops and activities to choose from, alongside your treatment programme, you’ll gain a new zest for life and develop a vital support network with fellow residents.

All of our treatment programmes include detox, therapy, workshops and social activities, as well as 12 months of aftercare to help you settle back into daily life.

Get Started Today

If you’re searching for “drug and alcohol rehab facilities near me”, you’ve probably admitted to your addiction and are ready to fully commit to drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

It’s never too late to ask for help, so contact our dedicated team today for your free and confidential initial consultation, to find out how we can help you.