Development of alcoholism treatment programme

The selection of alcoholism treatment programme which will effectively solve problems concerning alcoholism treatment and removal of alcohol addiction in every instance is often significantly more important and laborious stage which demands special knowledge and wide experience when solving problems of such type (alcoholism treatment) than it could be treated at first sight. When a person suffers from alcoholism and/or alcohol addiction it is a difficult stage in any person’s life and his (her) relatives, when such person scarcely could think clearly and realize things and events in own live and lives of relatives. Unfortunately, the longer lasts such state of a person suffering from alcoholism and/or alcohol addiction, the more significant changes occur in his (her) social, psychological spiritual and physiological life. Here in the ‘GROST’ Addiction Clinic we practice programmes of alcoholism treatment featuring first of all integral nature which provides effective and resultant combination of alternative alcoholism treatment methods with traditional, enabling us to cover and to affect the whole range of aspects relating to alcoholism treatment in specific cases. The programmes of alcoholism treatment are individually developed by experts of ‘GROST’ Addiction Centre and they do not tend to trite methods of alcoholism treatment with application of which could unfortunately boast many of our colleagues, alcohol and drug addiction clinics, centres and hospitals.

General features of alcoholism treatment

In simple words the process of alcoholism treatment like the process of other type drug addiction treatment starts from the detoxification of organism (detox) focused on elimination of consequences of continuous alcohol intake and on complete removal of alcohol from patient’s organism with no damage to it. This course of procedures is extremely important in the process of alcoholism treatment because continuous intake of sedative medicines always brings on changes in patient’s organism on physiological level and sudden discontinuation of alcohol intake could be painful for a patient at early stages of alcoholism treatment. At these stages the specific attention should be attended to the physical condition of a patient. The detoxification process must be obligatory carried out under supervision of qualified experts of addiction clinic, centre or hospital. The next stage of alcoholism treatment after detoxification is individual psychological work with a patient and application of the wide range of therapeutic methods which will enable to specify the origin of alcoholism problem and to remove it in order to avoid relapse which could bring necessity to repeat the treatment. This stage could be held both in the framework of outpatient and inpatient treatment of alcoholism depending on severity of each specific case. The methods of inpatient alcoholism treatment feature shorter terms and significantly higher rates of remissions among patients of addiction centres, clinics and hospitals.

Alcoholism treatment at ‘GROST’ Addiction Clinic

Why it makes sense to choose exactly the ‘GROST’ Addiction Clinic when making such choice?

‘GROST’ Addiction Clinic has successfully worked in the area of alcoholism and other addictions treatment since 1996; it is more than 14 years.

‘GROST’ clinic has treated more than 6000 patients with diagnosis ‘alcoholism’ and/or ‘alcohol addiction’ with results of virtually hundred-per-cent remissions.

As has been stated above, the experts of ‘GROST’ Addiction Clinic do not limit themselves with application of traditional methods of alcoholism treatment and apply individual methods of alcoholism treatment developed by our experts on ground of many year’s experience in areas of alcoholism and alcohol addiction treatment.

The skilful methods of management of such category establishment as the ‘GROST’ Addiction Clinic applied by our direction allowed the team of the clinic to avoid such adversity as high staff turnover rate and ‘brain drain’. In the issue we can characterize and assess the general level of professionalism, experience and staff training as ‘excellent’, especially when talking about alcoholism and other addictions treatment.

The personnel of ‘GROST’ Addiction Clinic actively applies and develops both classic approaches to treatment of alcohol addiction which already have acquired a reputation and most modern approaches and trends of treatment, namely:

- inpatient courses of alcoholism treatment;

- reduction of abstinence induced withdrawal, termination of a drinking bout in conditions of inpatient treatment;

- detoxification therapy;

- ozone therapy;

- normalization of psychological and emotional condition;

- physiotherapeutic procedures, massage, etc.;

- prophylaxis of ‘breakdowns’ by way of implantation of anti alcohol medicines with continuous effect;

- rehabilitation psychotherapeutic programmes.

Patients who start treatment at the clinic must provide respective experts with their anamnesis (length of alcohol intake, dosage, frequency of alcohol intake, presence of somatic complications and concomitant diseases).

For patients with continuous length of drastic matters intake and who are weakened physically, there are specific programmes of lytic detoxification have been developed enabling a patient to cure physical addiction during 5-10 days. During the first two days a patient will receive medicines removing abstinence syndrome manifestations, and then the therapy will be focused on normalization of psychological and emotional condition. The medicines arresting asthenic and depressive conditions are also used in case of such necessity.

The general health-improving therapy (high doses of vitamins, nootropic drugs, hepatoprotectors) is conducted simultaneously with use of neuropeptides and antidepressants. In the clinic our patients are also treated by psychologists combining individual and group psychotherapeutic programmes.

Pharmacotherapy is combined with physiotherapeutic procedures (massage, electric neurotherapy, sauna). The exercises at gym are arranged for patients starting from the third day of treatment at the clinic.

The complex of therapeutic programmes is combined with cosy atmosphere, comfortable environment and three meals a day with menu formed from 45 different dishes.

On patient’s option it is possible to carry out an implantation of anti-alcohol capsule after termination of course of treatment.

The schedule of treatment and rehabilitation measures: