Inpatient Detoxification - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Arlington, SD.

Inpatient detoxification is vital when someone is withdrawing from substance use considering there may be risks involved. While in an inpatient detoxification facility in Arlington patients can be closely observed for withdrawal symptoms that may bring about health risks or even death in more serious instances. Someone with alcoholism for example will need to be closely monitored and likely given certain prescription medications that works to prevent seizures and delirium tremens. Benzodiazepine withdrawal is another example that can bring about very similar withdrawal effects, and nurses and doctors in the inpatient detox center can keep them safe.

There is not an exact protocol for each client in detoxification, because of the unique health differences that each patient presents when entering detox. A person who is otherwise physically and mentally healthy may go through detox for 4 or 5 days and be released without much intervention, while another patient may need to have comprehensive care and intervention for a couple weeks. Safety is of the highest concern, as well as a transition to a rehab program for clients who should to go to an actual substance abuse rehab program once detoxification is finished. Most detoxification facilities work with drug rehabilitation programs to make this transition possible, due to the fact that detoxification is merely the first step in an overall treatment plan for recovering addicts.

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