Inpatient Detoxification - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Billerica, MA.

Inpatient detoxification is recommended when a person is withdrawing from substance use because withdrawal can be dangerous. While in an inpatient detoxification setting in Billerica clients can be closely monitored for withdrawal symptoms that could cause health risks or even death in more severe instances. Someone with alcoholism for example will need to be closely monitored and likely administered certain prescription drugs which will prevent delirium tremens and seizures. Benzodiazepine withdrawal is another example that can cause very similar withdrawal effects, and nurses and doctors in the inpatient detox facility would keep them safe.

There is not an exact protocol for each patient in detox, because of the unique differences that each person presents when arriving to the detoxification facility. Someone who is basically physically and mentally healthy may be in detox for 4 or 5 days and be released without much medical intervention, while another person may require intensive supervision and intervention for a couple weeks. Safety is of the highest concern, and also a transition to treatment for individuals who need to attend an actual drug and alcohol treatment center once detox is finished. Most detoxification facilities collaborate with drug treatment facilities to make this transition possible, since detox is merely the first step in an overall rehabilitation plan for recovering addicts.

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