Best Benzo Rehab Center for Ashburn Residents

As with other drugs, legal and illegal, your brain changes the way it functions when benzos are present. As you continue to take them, and take too much of them, your brain may stop making neurochemicals as it’s supposed to because of the long-term presence of the drugs. When you stop suddenly, your brain has to adapt to the lack of benzos and it’s this adjustment that causes withdrawal symptoms.

Being medically supervised during the detox process in Ashburn can help you be more comfortable and less likely to relapse. Detox is just the first step in your recovery from benzos. After that, you’ll need to understand why you started abusing these drugs in the first place, so you can address the underlying problem. Also, you’ll need to learn better-coping mechanisms for stressful situations so you don’t have to rely on meds or drugs to get you through.

Types of Addiction Treatment For Benzo Addiction We Offer

Many benzo abusers combine them with other drugs, like alcohol or opioids. All of these drugs are central nervous system depressants, so when you take too much your breathing and heart rate could slow down so much that they stop. It’s key to get help to stop as soon as you can.

There are three types of benzodiazepines. While the risk of addiction is high for all three, the withdrawal effects are even stronger for short-acting benzos compared to long-acting ones. However, even if you are using a long or intermediate-acting drug, you’ll likely need help to make sure you’re successful in sobriety.

• Long-acting

Diazepam (brand name Valium)

• Intermediate-acting

Nitrazepam (Mogadon)

• Short-acting

Oxazepam (Alepam), temazepam (Euhypnos), alprazolam (Xanax), triazolam (Halcion)

Benzo Detox

The type of benzo you’re using will determine the length of your detox, in addition to how long and how much of it. Short-acting drug symptoms may happen within ten to twelve hours after your last dose, but for the longer-acting ones, it could be a few days before they appear. Choosing to go to medically supervised detox can help, and detox can also taper off gradually which also makes withdrawal less painful.

Early withdrawal can last for a few days, after which you may experience acute withdrawal with more severe symptoms. A detox facility in Ashburn can provide medications that aren’t addictive but can help you through this stage as well, which could last a couple of weeks. 

Inpatient Benzo Rehab

After detox, you can get started on the true work of recovery. While not all people with substance use disorders need to go to detox, inpatient, and outpatient treatment, many benzo users need the full continuum of care. At an inpatient rehab, you’ll be in therapy most of the day, in both group and individual sessions. 

You stay at the facility overnight, so you’re in a safe, trigger-free environment. The days have a lot of structure, with everyone waking up, eating meals, and going to bed at the same time each day. Generally, there’s time after dinner for games and fun activities.

If you have a dual diagnosis with a mental health condition such as ADHD, depression, or bipolar disorder, you’ll also receive help for that while you’re in treatment. You need to get sober before you can treat the mental health disorder, whether you’ve already been diagnosed or you’re diagnosed while in treatment.

Outpatient Benzo Rehab

Once you’re in outpatient treatment, you’ll go home or to a sober living home each day after therapy. The first level is typically a partial hospitalization program, where you spend 25-30 hours in rehab. That works out to most of the day during the weekdays. After that, you may graduate to a lower level of nine to ten hours a week, usually on weekends and in the evenings after school or work.

How Long Is Benzo Rehab?

The real answer is that rehab should last as long as you need it to. Inpatient rehab programs may be for one, two, or three months (and sometimes longer), with the three-month duration shown to be most successful for helping people get and stay on the path to recovery. Outpatient may last for months, depending on your use history.

What Is Benzo Rehab Like?

When you first get to rehab, the staff generally runs some medical tests and asks you for your use history. They may also want to know about a family history of drug and alcohol addiction because these issues tend to run in families. You might also be asked about a mental health history because mental disorders also have a strong genetic component. 

Once the staff has made an assessment, they’ll be able to recommend a course of action for you. It may or may not include the full continuum of care. If you arrive in bad physical shape, which is pretty common, you’ll be given some fluids and nutrients to help improve your physical health while you’re working on your mental and emotional health.

The whole time you’re in rehab you’ll be making aftercare plans so that you know exactly what to do and who to call when you transition out of treatment and some kind of problem arises.  

12 Step Benzo Rehab in Ashburn

Although the 12 steps were originally written for alcoholics, liquor is a drug just as much as benzos are, and they have been adapted for drugs too. 12 step groups can be an important part of your recovery, especially after you leave treatment. They provide not just community with people who’ve been through the same thing you’re going through, but accountability as well.

Executive Drug Rehab for Benzos in Ashburn

You don’t have to wait until you’ve lost everything – job, home, family – to go to rehab and get help. It’s also common for people in managerial and executive positions to find themselves in a losing war with benzo addiction. 

Executive drug rehabs are designed to help you keep your job and maintain your career while you’re in treatment. You may have access to conference rooms, computers, and other amenities to help you work while you’re in recovery.

Breathwork Therapy

Everyone knows how to breathe, right? Not so fast! When people get stressed, they tend to breathe in short, quick breaths, which signal to their system that they’re in danger, which may make them feel even more stressed. Learning how to breathe properly, and to slow down when you feel like things are getting out of hand, can keep you calm so that you can make good decisions. 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

This type of therapy (CBT) is known to be very effective in helping those with substance use disorders start making smarter choices. Even after you’ve stopped using, you likely have some errors in thinking that could lead you astray. CBT helps you recognize when those thinking errors are happening so you can reframe your thoughts into something that’s more helpful and assists with your recovery.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Like CBT, DBT is known to help those with benzo (and another drug) addictions get clean and prevent relapse. Instead of thinking errors, in this type of therapy, you’ll be focusing more on your feelings and being able to recognize when they’re leading you down the wrong path. You’ll also get some education on mindfulness techniques, which can help you stay in the moment and relieve anxiety and stress.

Family Systems Therapy

It’s common for family members to contribute to the disease of addiction in some way, whether they realize it or not. Family systems therapy helps them learn how to support their recovery instead, and how they have affected their use. Your family will also discover and practice better ways to communicate with each other.

Trauma-Informed Therapy

It’s also unfortunately very common for someone who’s been abusing benzos to have had trauma in their lives, whether as an adult or child or both. It’s critical to work through the trauma so that you’re not so triggered by it., but to do it in a way that doesn’t retraumatize you.

Why Choose The Detox Center of LA For Benzo Rehab in Ashburn

We’ll customize your plan to you and your specific situation. It’s also important to us that you take recovery one step at a time, so you can thoroughly process everything and not get overwhelmed by what’s going on. Our staff is caring and dedicated to your success in sobriety, not only while you’re in treatment with us, but when you’re back in the “real world” as well.

No matter what type of benzos you’ve been using, with help you can kick the habit. There’s no reason for you to continue to suffer when we’re available to help. Contact us today to get started.