How to stop drinking: advice from narcologists and folk methods

Alcoholism has managed to turn from a chronic disease into a dangerous social problem. Many people do not take the craving for alcohol seriously, considering it an ordinary bad habit that can be overcome with a simple effort of will. In fact, the chance of returning to normal andfull lifeappears only after completing all stages of complex therapy. It is not possible to overcome the disease on your own; you need to seek qualified drug treatment help.

Stages of treatment

The very first thing to do when dealing with alcohol addiction is to admit that there is a problem and givevoluntary consentfor complex treatment. Forced therapy is prohibited, as is any provision of medical assistance to a person against his will.

The alcoholic must then go through the following stages:

1. Cleansing the body of alcohol toxins.
2. Comprehensive diagnostics.
3. Medication or non-medication coding.
4. Psychological rehabilitation.
5. Social adaptation.

Having successfully overcome each of these stages, the patient will have a chance to completely get rid of addiction.

Folk remedies

At each stage, you must strictly follow the advice and recommendations of doctors. However, there are many families who prefer not to go to the clinic, relying on their own strength.

There are many folk remedies that promise to help cure cravings for alcohol that persist for a long time. As a rule, they are based on adding components to food that are incompatible with alcohol. They provokeserious deteriorationwell-being, pushing a person to the decision to quit drinking. In most cases, during such treatment they aim to cause:

• headache;
• gagging;
• loss of strength and general fatigue.

When a patient begins to regularly experience a terrible physical and depressing psychological state after drinking alcohol, this prompts the body to give up alcohol. There are several medicinal plants that are used for these purposes.

Puppeteer

An infusion of roots should be added to soft drinks or food. The patientwon't feel anything. If you drink after this, the patient begins to experience nausea, which turns into vomiting, and the aversion to alcohol increases significantly after this.

It is recommended to prepare the decoction, which is called "helebore water, " as follows:

1. Finely chop one teaspoon of puppet roots.
2. Pour 50 ml of boiling water.
3. Leave for one hour.
4. Strain.
5. Dilute 1 to 1 with boiled water.

Each time you need to brew a new infusion. At first, add no more than two drops to food or drinks, gradually increasing the dose.be careful, this is a poisonous plant, so you should not add more than five drops at a time. If such treatment does not produce results within a week, you need to look for another method, since the poison can accumulate in the body, which will also be dangerous.

Eternal Grass

You need to use the roots and leaves of the coffin. Consider the health status of the alcohol addict, since the decoction contains toxic substances, you must not make a mistake with the dose. It is prepared according to the following recipe:

1. Pour one tablespoon of chopped roots and leaves into a glass of water.
2. Bring the resulting mixture to a boil. Boil for no more than 30 minutes over low heat.
3. Cool.
4. Strain.

The decoction should be added at the rate of one tablespoon per glass of strong alcohol. If the patient's weight is up to 60 kg, the dose must be reduced to one teaspoon.

Dung mushroom

If this mushroom gets into the food of an alcoholic, he will also want to stop drinking. But, unlike previous options, you will need to spendmuch biggertime - from one to three months. First you need to collect dung mushrooms; they grow in large quantities in the forest. They are also sold in pharmacies in the herbal section. The daily dose should not exceed two grams so as not to harm the patient’s body.

While a person gets rid of the desire to drink,worth giving upfrom scandals and conflicts, stop reproaching a relative because he constantly drinks. You can even, on the contrary, offer him a drink. The first results can be achieved after a few weeks, when a person begins to give up alcohol on his own. But you cannot stop there; treatment should be continued to consolidate the effect. To give a dung mushroom to an alcoholic, you need to prepare it:

1. Chop the mushroom thoroughly.
2. Fry in a pan until the water has completely evaporated.
3. Cool the resulting mushroom mass.
4. Dry.
5. Grind to a powder.

The dung mushroom in this state has no odor at all, so the alcohol addict will not suspect anything.

The listed options involve treating alcoholism without the knowledge of the patient. This is an advantage when it is not possible to force the addict to go to treatment. But at the same time, the effectiveness of compulsory treatmentlow: Until the patient sincerely wants to get rid of alcohol addiction, the likelihood of relapse will be high.

However, folk remedies do not always help qualitatively, especially at the chronic stage. Existsrisk of exacerbationchronic diseases in a drinking relative, which he and his loved ones may not even suspect. Because of this, his condition can deteriorate significantly, and there is even a risk of death. Therefore, if you have alcoholism, it is better not to take risks, but to go to a drug treatment clinic for help.

Reasons for drinking alcohol

To solve your alcohol addiction problem,need to knowwhy the person started drinking. Often eliminating the root cause will correct the situation. If he doesn’t even stop drinking after that, he will feel motivated to get rid of alcohol addiction.

The causes of alcoholism are divided into three groups:

• social;
• physiological;
• psychological.

In most cases, addiction is not caused by one reason, but by a combination of several reasons. Social causes of addictionlies in the family. Many children from an early age watch their parents drink, beginning to believe that this is the norm. Even when a mother or father begins to behave inappropriately while intoxicated, in the child’s mind this also does not contradict the norm. As a result, when the child grows up, he reproduces this behavior. In dysfunctional families, the parents themselves introduce their children to alcohol in adolescence.

Physiological causes of addiction play a major role.The most common– brain diseases and poor heredity. Bad genes are found in almost all children born from mothers with addiction. And if only the father drinks, the child is five times more likely to become addicted to alcohol than a teenager growing up in a healthy family. In addition to physiological reasons, one should take into account the unfavorable social environment in which children of alcoholics grow up. Among the psychological diseases that provoke addiction are:

• neuroses;
• schizophrenia;
• depression.

Strokes, various injuries, and surgical interventions can provoke cravings for alcohol. Due to these factors, a person becomes more vulnerable to alcohol and psychotropic drugs, quickly becoming influenced by them.

From a psychological point of view, conscious drinking isdesire to hidefrom the surrounding reality, which categorically does not suit a person. Alcohol does bring relief, but only at first, helping to relax and temporarily forget about the difficulties that have arisen. Because of this, it is often chosen by people faced with:

• loneliness;
• lack of recognition of one's successes and talents;
• isolation;
• lack of communication;
• unsettled life.

Often these conditions cause resentment towards the entire surrounding society, a constant feeling of anxiety, uncertainty and personal inferiority. Alcohol becomes a relaxant. But this cannot go on for long. All comes to the endthe formation of dependence, the patient himself and his environment need to do something urgently so that the disease does not lead to catastrophic consequences.

How to determine addiction

Without exception, everyone close to an addict is faced with a situation in which hethe person deniesexistence of a problem. Moreover, he can sincerely believe that everything is really all right with him, if he just wants to, he will immediately stop drinking. In reality this is not the case.

When a physical craving for alcoholic beverages develops, ethanol toxins gradually settle in tissues and internal organs and participate in the metabolic process. Because of this, the patient, having drunk alcohol the day before, does not experience a hangover the next morning, but a withdrawal syndrome that occurs due to a strong decrease in the level of ethanol in the body. There is only one way to eliminate its unpleasant and even painful symptoms - drink again. The patient gets intovicious circle, a binge develops, from which it is almost impossible to get out without medical help.

Alcohol dependence can also be determined by the following symptoms:

1. No vomiting reaction even when drinking alcoholic beverages in large quantities.
2. If a person starts drinking, he does not stop until he is physically able to continue.
3. Appearancealcohol amnesia– it is impossible to remember what happened the day before.
4. The need to drink again in the morning to relieve the painful physical and psychological symptoms of addiction.
5. The occurrence of binges, which each time become more severe and longer.
6. A person cannot help but drink, even if important meetings and urgent matters await him ahead.

If these signs appear, you should contact a professional narcologist, since it is almost impossible to cope with alcohol addiction at home.

Detoxification

It is necessary to begin the fight against cravings for alcohol by cleansing the body of ethanol toxins and their breakdown products. This will happen naturally if you completely stop drinking for at least a week. But with chronic addiction, the patient simply cannot withstand such a period without alcohol.

Then drug detoxification is carried out. The patient is given a drip with drugs in the form of solutions, which immediately enter the bloodstream, bypassing the gastrointestinal tract, and begin to act. The same method is used when requiredemergency sobering, for example, when a patient is hospitalized in a clinic while intoxicated, or when recovering from a binge. If the patient is in a drunken state, using a dropper it is possible to:

1. Remove ethanol and its breakdown products from the blood within a few hours.
2. Stabilize the psychological state so that the patient can get a good night's sleep.
3. Replenish the deficiency of nutrients and microelements.
4. Launch restoration processes in the body.

After this, you can move on to the next stage.

Diagnostics

It is possible to achieve results in the fight against alcohol addiction if you usepersonal approachto every alcohol addict. This requires comprehensive diagnostics to determine:

• stage and duration of the disease;
• what kind of alcohol the person preferred, in what quantities;
• general condition of the body;
• physiological and psychological characteristics of the body;
• allergic reactions, possible side effects, intolerance to individual components of medications.

Having received a complete picture of the patient’s condition, the narcologist determines what methods and drugs will bethe most effective, while being safe for humans.

Coding for alcoholism

This is the next stage of confronting alcohol addiction. According to reviews and posts on forums, drug coding using drugs based on tetraethylthioperoxycarbodiamide effectively helps to stop drinking. However, this method has many side effects; you need to make sure that the patient has no contraindications to use these remedies.

The action of tetraethylthioperoxycarbodiamide is to block liver enzymes that break down alcohol toxins that are toxic to humans intosafe substances, which are then freely excreted from the body. If the enzymes do not work, and a coded alcoholic takes the risk of drinking, all the alcohol will immediately end up in the blood. This will provoke severe intoxication with the following symptoms:

• high blood pressure;
• heat;
• a feeling of approaching death that causes panic;
• arrhythmia;
• depression of the respiratory centers;
• tremor;
• aches;
• auditory and visual hallucinations.

The patient urgently needs to be given an antidote, otherwise death may occur. The effectiveness of this method is that the patient not only begins to experience an aversion to alcohol, he also develops a powerfulpsychological barrier. An alcohol addict begins to panic for his life, as he understands that just one drink can lead to death. After such coding, you should be careful to exclude not only alcohol, but also all medications containing alcohol.

A less radical method of drug coding is the use of drugs based on a substance that is used in the treatment of opioid addicts. This substance blocks the brain receptors responsible for pleasure and feelings of euphoria. If the encoded person breaks down, he simply will not feel anything, so he will decide to give up alcohol, at least for the duration of the encoding. This time should be enough for doctors to carry out full psychological rehabilitation, after which the person will be able to finally get rid of the craving for alcohol and return to a normal and fulfilling life.

If an alcohol addict has contraindications or he himself does not want to take potent drugs that have side effects, choosesofternon-drug coding methods. For example, hypnotherapy. In this case, no medications are used, and the patient is simply immersed in hypnosis, giving instructions to give up alcohol and lead a sober lifestyle. It is possible to achieve results in several sessions.

Psychological rehabilitation

With the help of coding, it is possible to overcome physical cravings for alcohol; to cope with psychological addiction, you need to undergo a rehabilitation course in an inpatient drug treatment center. Private clinics provide the possibility of anonymous hospitalization; they care about the confidentiality of their patients.

Diagnostic results also help to understand which techniques will work best with a particular drug addict. There are quite a lot of options:

• group and individual psychological trainings;
• 12 step program;
• art therapy;
• Day Top program;
• occupational therapy;
• therapeutic communities.

The duration of rehabilitation ranges from several monthsup to one year. It all depends on how severe the patient’s addiction is, how much he himself wants to quit drinking.

Social adaptation

Next, it is recommended to prepare for a return to normal life by undergoing social adaptation. The work involves psychologists who solve the following tasks:

1. They teach the patient to make new acquaintances, since alcohol addicts often completely lose the ability to socialize in society during their drinking bouts and subsequent treatment.
2. They are working to restore relationships in the family, family psychotherapy contributes to this.
3. They prepare a person for employment; this is an important condition for successful socialization.
4. They help you find new hobbies and teach you how to relax and unwind without drinking alcohol.

Another important result of this work isestablishing causeswhich led to alcohol addiction. It is important for a psychologist to teach the patient to cope with stress and life’s difficulties without starting to reach for a glass every time. After discharge, all patients are provided with post-rehabilitation support. They can seek psychological help at any time as soon as they feel that they may relapse again.

Advantages of treatment in a private drug treatment clinic

When treating alcohol addiction in a paid center for combating alcoholism and drug addiction, all patients and their relatives are guaranteed:

1. Anonymity– the patient is not registered at the drug dispensary, as is done in state clinics. Thanks to this, a person does not end up in the databases of various government bodies, and in the future he will not have problems, for example, with obtaining a license or finding employment in the civil service.
2. If the alcohol addict’s condition allows, he is provided with outpatient drug treatment so that he remains in a psychologically comfortable home environment.
3. When calling narcologists to your home, they respect the confidentiality of their client. To do this, they arrive without a uniform and in a car without identification marks, so that no one would suspect that your family is faced with such a shameful problem.
4. When hospitalized in an inpatient department, each patient is providedcomfortable roomwith everything you need. Patients are provided with a balanced diet to speed up the process of restoration of internal organs and systems.
5. In their work, narcologists use only proven and safe medications and effective methods that have proven their effectiveness.
6. It is possible to regularly achieve good results thanks to an integrated approach. Treatment is carried out taking into account the condition of the alcohol addict.

More information about prices, services and conditions of therapy can be found by calling a drug treatment clinic or at a free preliminary consultation.