Alabama Drug Rehab

Alabama has had widespread problems with powder and crack cocaine, and locally-produced methamphetamine. Recent changes in the state laws in Alabama and Mississippi both are very likely to contribute to changes in some of the drug trafficking patterns in the state. Alabama now tracks every person who goes into a pharmacy to buy cold medication with pseudoephedrine in it – a drug needed for the manufacture of methamphetamine. In the first six months of the law’s enforcement, 25,000 people who tried to buy cold medication were out of luck as the system showed they were over their limit. While this does drive down the number of Alabama meth labs that will be seized, at the same time, it could pave the way for more Mexican methamphetamine to be brought into the state.

Marijuana is consumed across the state, some home-grown, some from Mexico and some coming from the Western US, partly from farms growing the drug for medical supply programs. In 2007, 266,000 people were illicit drug abusers, and 172,000 of these were using marijuana although with the current trend toward poly-drug use, many were probably using one or more other drugs as well.

When you add in the number of people who were struggling with alcoholism, the numbers of people needed help at one of the Alabama drug rehab centers jump up considerably. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 294,000 Alabamans need Alabama drug rehab for either alcohol abuse or illicit drug dependence (including prescription drugs).

Drug Rehab Centers in Alabama Can’t Meet the Need

In 2009, fewer than one in ten citizens could find Alabama drug rehab centers to help them in their time of most critical need. Only 22,401 people were admitted to drug rehab centers in Alabama. Perhaps it is not surprising that more were there for marijuana abuse than any other single drug. Men entered Alabama drug rehabs far more often than women, about seven men for every three women.

Even When Citizens Find Alabama Drug Rehab, Is it Effective?

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, there are just over a hundred Alabama drug rehab centers. As is true in most areas, the majority are outpatient programs or are mixed with mental health services. Many offer buprenorphine or methadone as substitutes or opiates like heroin, oxycodone, hydrocodone or morphine, commonly abused narcotics. But these substitutes, while preventing withdrawal symptoms, keep a person chained to an addictive drug.

The other problem with many drug rehabs in Alabama or elsewhere is a lack of effectiveness. Many rehabs tell a person that they must learn to live with their addictions for the rest of their life and that “relapse is part of recovery,” which some addicts in recovery claim practically makes them expect to relapse.

On the Narconon Arrowhead drug recovery program, a person addicted to opiates or other drugs does not need a substitute drug. The withdrawal process at Narconon is tolerable and humane. Each person is supported with generous dosages of nutritional supplements that calm the body’s reaction to the withdrawal of addictive substances. The staff help the person with gentle reorientation exercises and relaxing assists that are somewhat like mild massages, to help with muscle aches and spasms. The overall effect of this support is to provide what many people find to be the most tolerable withdrawal process ever. Just the fact of getting through withdrawal in relative comfort makes for a very positive beginning to recovery.

The overall process of rehabilitation at Narconon Arrowhead is unique in its overall effectiveness as well. Because of this long-term, residential program, seven out of ten Narconon Arrowhead graduates go on to find lasting sobriety after they return home.

When you are looking into Alabama drug rehab centers, find out how Narconon Arrowhead may be able to help you make this the last trip to rehab ever. Call today and find out. Call 1-800-468-6933 today.