Alaska Drug Rehab and Addiction Treatment Centers
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The Need for Drug Rehabs in Alaska
Alaska Drug Rehab Centers was established as a no cost service to guide you through the problem of finding a drug rehab centers in Alaska for yourself or your loved one that works. Drug rehab counselors are available to help you find the right Alaska drug rehab based on your own individual circumstances. Our drug rehab professionals are all certified and have decades of combined experience in dealing with addiction-related drug problems with individuals, families and Alaska drug rehab centers.This is a free service that will help you find a drug rehab for any alcohol or drug addiction problem you or a loved one may be having. It is easy to confuse the different terms used in this field, describing the different types of drug rehab centers, drug rehabilitation centers, and substance abuse treatment programs. For your specific addiction or drug problem, you maybe looking for an Outpatient, In-patient, Residential Treatment Center, Long term or Short term treatment and, secondly, what modality of treatment is the most effective and what are the cost related to these forms of treatment or rehab?
Call us now at 1-877-444-1137.
We have access to an extensive database of thousands of drug rehab across Alaska
and can help you understand what the different types of drug rehab centers
can do for you.
There were 18,000 people in Alaska who needed but did not receive drug rehab services, according to the National Study on Drug Use and Health conducted in 2005. 3,000 teenagers aged 12 through 17 needed a drug rehab to help them overcome their addiction to illegal drugs and yet ended up not receiving that help. 6,000 young adults aged 18 through 25 also needed a drug rehab program because of their addiction to drugs but ended up not receiving that help. Finally, 9,000 adults aged 26 and over likewise needed a drug rehab to overcome their drug dependence, but ended up not getting the assistance they needed. Most of these represent families in need of quality drug rehab and all of the above figures relate to an individual wanting to get clean and sober but not being able to find the resources to do so.
Again, with an estimated 18,000 or more people using and abusing drugs, many of whom are well into addiction, and a large percentage of those who are very obviously addicted and need addiction treatment, resources must become available.
Most addiction treatment centers have a limited success rate, in that the majority of their clients return to using drugs or alcohol. This is not the case with biophysical treatment centers. In fact, approximately 70% of the graduates of biophysical treatment centers or drug and alcohol rehab remain drug free and productive citizens.
Cocaine is readily available in most areas of Alaska and is seen with great frequency in powder form and crack cocaine in the major urban areas such as Anchorage and Fairbanks. Heroin is less available, as many of the heroin users in Alaska have turned to using prescription opiates such as Oxycontin.
Marijuana is available throughout Alaska and is still the most widely-used illicit substance. Methamphetamine use and manufacturing increased significantly in Alaska in 2004. During 2004, authorities reported that there were 14 children affected by methamphetamine laboratories in Alaska and the DEA and state and local authorities in Alaska reported 48 methamphetamine lab seizures, which was up from 26 in 2000.
Club drug use such as MDMA is a growing threat throughout Alaska, and the hallucinogen LSD remains available primarily in university areas.
Diverted pharmaceuticals is an increasing problem in Alaska, as it is one of the top five purchasing states for five of the top twelve diverted drugs, including fentanyl, d-amphetamine, oxycodone, methadone and meperidine. Benzodiazepines such as Valium and Xanax are also widely abused in Alaska. 133,000 Alaskans reported lifetime use of psychotherapeutic drugs without a doctor’s orders.
There are approximately 4,000 annual admissions to drug rehab
and addiction treatment facilities in Alaska,
however, due to the high relapse rate of many traditional programs most
families are searching for something that works.
The Solution
Drug rehab that addresses the individual through a biophysical inpatient approach is the most successful method. Our philosophy is to refer you to the best possible drug treatment center that will terminatively handle the problem. We will refer you to drug rehab centers that don't use drugs in any way.
Inpatient drug rehab for a person from Alaska is considered the best setting to help guarantee long-term success at leaving addiction behind for good. Living in the facility while undergoing our drug rehab program will ensure the most continuity of treatment and also allows the person the time “away” to really confront and handle all the life skills and abilities needed to return home ready to live.
Inpatient drug rehab centers offer support and structure for men and women seeking help for problems with drugs or alcohol. Participants reside on location for the course of the rehab program; lengths of stay vary and may be individualized. Care at an inpatient drug rehab is provided 24 hours a day 7 days a week; this is only one of the benefits of attending an inpatient drug rehab.
For immediate assistance to find a drug rehabilitation center,
call now 1-877-444-1137.
A professional counselor will assist you.
Alaska Drug Rehab Assessment Form
Please fill out this short information form so that we can help you find a good rehabilitation facility with a high success rate. We are knowledeable in all methods of drug rehab and can find you a center which does not use any drugs in the program and which actually achieves a complete rehabilitation. For the long form assessment please click here.
Drug-Related Crime in Alaska
Nearly 29 percent of the Federally-sentenced defendants in Alaska had committed a drug offense, with more than 46 percent of those involving cocaine. Overall there were 1,269 adult arrests for drug possession in Alaska in 2003. Overcrowding in prison systems is largely due to drug-related crime, but most drug users in Alaska should have the opportunity to enter a drug rehab center.
Types of Drug Rehab and Addiction Treatment Available in Alaska
1. Drug Rehab using behavioral modification
Behavioral Modification gained popularity in the 1970's and is based on the Pavlovian idea that man is an animal and changes actions based on stimulus and response. It was popular during these early years for teachers to have bags of M&M's to reward children for proper responses. In drug treatment, the Therapeutic Community model was developed, which uses ridicule and shamming tactics rather than M&M's in an attempt to change thinking and behavior. These program are popular with criminal justice populations and have demonstrated less than a 10% long-term success rate. As long as the person is in the original group and has gained some privileges for being a "perfect client", the compliance is high, but for those that need support to make changes, it can be devastating and leads to many clients exiting the programs early to maintain some personal power and dignity.
2. Drug rehab using a 12-step approach:
This method of recovery is employed by Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous,Cocaine Anonymous and many other Anonymous groups.
The originators of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) looked long and hard for something, anything, that would work to save alcoholics from self-destruction, anything to break the cycle of addiction. In the 1930's alcoholics were thought of as the reprobates of society and were usually institutionalized in psychiatric centers as being insane and given horrendous treatment, which, of course, didn't solve the addiction. So, the original work of the two founders of the 12-step approach are to be commended for reclassifying the problem, but, unfortunately, in the process, they removed all of the personal responsibility by making addiction a disease.
There are many positive aspects of the 12-step approach in that it gets addicts into communication about their lives and their addiction and that is far better than the isolation that they were experiencing. However, it falls short of the truth about addiction and actually re-labels the problem to fit their philosophy and doesn't actually treat the addiction, but supports addicts with the idea that there is no cure, but by belonging to a like-minded group, one can stay off of alcohol and other drugs and survive at a higher level.
This recovery method was never intended to be institutionalized into a treatment modality, but when insurance programs in the 1970's began to pay for up to 30 days of addiction treatment, many programs opened throughout the US and huge profits were actualized for their owners. Soon the insurance companies looked at the lack of ongoing success and have since drastically reduce their support of any form of addiction treatment. These 30-day, 12-step programs do not pretend to graduate their patients free of relapse, but contend that addiction is a disease of relapse and that will continue throughout ones life. They believe that addiction is a chronic and progressive disease, meaning that is last forever and gets worse even when one isn't drinking or using. Less than 10% of their graduates stay clean long enough to rebuild their lives.
3. Christian or Religious based treatment
Many families soon become frustrated with behavior modification and 12-step treatment approaches, and for good reason, and turn to religious programs for an answer. These program usually don't profess to doing treatment, but are structured to bring fundamental religious beliefs into the void of spiritual feelings seen in all addicts. To develop the moral/ethics and spiritual support in anyone suffering from addiction is an important component of any program, but in itself, it has proven to be insufficient in graduating a higher than 5-10% success.
As you my have noticed, other than the Biophysical approach, all other modalities of treatment are only successful at a minimal level of 10% or less. This correlates with the fact that about 10% of the addict population will recover from their problems without any clinical interventions whatsoever, so in looking at these forms of treatment, you might find that it satisfies some part of your common sense that addicts may need some of these measures, like religion, but effective treatment of this problem is either comprehensive and successful or it depends totally on the strengths of the individual to be a success.
All program, other than biophysical programs, depend on their graduates to live within the newly acquired philosophy and to limit their contacts and associations to others that follow those ideals and ideas. This is not very realistic and, therefore you can see that very few remove themselves from addiction at a level that one should expect of a center that is treating a problem of any magnitude.
4. Biophysical Drug Rehab
Biophysical treatment methods get the residue of the drugs out of the body. Through research, it has been found that the human body will store a residue, called a metabolite of the drug, in the dormant fat tissue for 5 – 7 years after drug use/abuse. When a person stops using drugs, this residue of the fat-soluble drugs begins to be released back into the blood stream which causes cravings, anxiety, and depression in the addict who may be trying desperately to curtail his use.
This can go on for literally years and is the major reason why many programs claim that addiction is a life-long disease. As these toxins are released back into the blood stream, it causes the struggling drug affected person to experience some of the original drug effect and causes depression and mental health problems that lead many to see advice from psychiatrist who will then prescribe a psychiatric medication, which leads to more toxins in the body to add to the emotional roller coaster that most recovering people experience daily.
Drugs like heroin, oxycontin, cocaine, and meth are more powerful than the natural chemicals the brain produces to be happy, so these "flash-back" type experiences overpower ones natural chemistry. It takes at least a year for this natural chemical balance to be restored and most "recovering" addicts cannot take the anxiety and depression they are causing for any length of time without relapsing back to their drug of choice or drug of availability.
The Biophysical method uses a purification technology in conjunction with vitamins and minerals to release these toxic residues stored in fat tissue, back into the blood stream where they are then forced out of the body, leaving the person free of this contamination and free of the cravings, anxiety or depression caused by the side effects of these drugs. This enables a return to a natural chemical balance, which is why these types of programs don't subscribe to the expression, "Once and Addict, Always and Addict". This type of drug rehabilitation center uses a social educational model to restore ethics and build life-skills to ensure their graduates are drug free and productive members of society. Drug Rehab Programs with this method are having a success rate of over 78%. This is why Biophysical drug treatment centers are the most highly recommended and fastest growing form of treatment.
Alaska does not presently have a biophysical program in the state, but if you call our counselors, we can direct you to the nearest drug rehab program of this type, or any others that you may be needing.
