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Inpatient detoxification is essential when an individual is withdrawing from substance use due to the fact that withdrawal can be dangerous. While in an inpatient detoxification setting in Alto patients are closely checked for withdrawal symptoms which could bring about health complications or even death in more severe instances. a person with alcoholism for example may need to be observed closely and probably administered certain prescription drugs that would prevent seizures and delirium tremens. Prescription benzodiazepine withdrawal is another type of drug that may cause very similar withdrawal effects, and doctors and medical staff in the inpatient detoxification facility will minimize health risks.
There isn't an exact practice for each patient in detox, because of the unique differences that each person presents when entering the detoxification facility. Someone who is basically physically and mentally healthy may go through detox for 4 or 5 days and be released without much intervention, while another person may need to have comprehensive supervision and intervention for a couple weeks. Medical safety is of the utmost concern, as well as a transition to treatment for patients who should to go to an actual substance abuse treatment facility once detox is finished. Most detoxification facilities work with drug rehabilitation facilities to make this transition possible, due to the fact that detoxification is only the first step in an overall rehabilitation plan for people in recovery.
