If you or a loved need to safely detox from drugs or alcohol, contact Southern California Sunrise Recovery Center Today.
Alcohol Addiction has been diagnosed in over 7 % of American adults. Alcoholism is characterized by drinking too much, drinking too often, and drinking in a way that has negative consequences for a person’s personal life, professional life, and overall health. Once a person realizes that they have a problem and decides to seek help, there are evidence-based treatment methods available that have helped a lot of people to get well. Group counseling, individual counseling, sobriety support groups (like Alcoholics Anonymous and SMART Recovery) and relapse prevention education have all been proven to help an alcoholic recover. Relapse rates fall by around 50% when these treatments are utilized. Many people see such huge benefits that they choose to continue using these support systems even after they have achieved longterm sobriety.
Alcohol Addiction has been diagnosed in over 7 % of American adults. Alcoholism is characterized by drinking too much, drinking too often, and drinking in a way that has negative consequences for a person’s personal life, professional life, and overall health. Once a person realizes that they have a problem and decides to seek help, there are evidence-based treatment methods available that have helped a lot of people to get well. Group counseling, individual counseling, sobriety support groups (like Alcoholics Anonymous and SMART Recovery) and relapse prevention education have all been proven to help an alcoholic recover. Relapse rates fall by around 50% when these treatments are utilized. Many people see such huge benefits that they choose to continue using these support systems even after they have achieved longterm sobriety.
Heroin is an illegal opioid drug. It is also classified as an opiate because it is derived from the opium poppy plant. Common known opiates are morphine and codeine. The term opioid is used to refer to both these natural drugs as well as their synthetic relatives.
There are many synthetic opioids, but the most common forms are hydrocodone, oxycodone, and methadone. Most of these drugs have similar effects to a person’s brain chemistry but in varying degrees and durations.
These drugs can be effective in treating pain, which has led to their pharmaceutical use. However, the side effects of their long term use and chemical dependency is quite problematic. Their potential for recreational abuse is tremendous. For the most part, they are not intended for long term use, but people fall into the trap of using them habitually at large doses.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports that approximately 80% of people who struggle with heroin addiction began their addiction by misusing prescription opioids. NIDA also states that 30% of the people who are prescribed opioids abuse them. And they say 10% of people who are prescribed opioids develop opioid use disorder (OUD). OUD is a mental health issue in which opioids like heroin become so problematic that they interfere with daily life.
In OUD, users have developed irresponsible behaviors that directly correlate to their usage of opioids. Addicts will have social, psychological, and physical problems not only relating to themselves but also family members, friends, coworkers, and associates. They might give up valuable items, their bodies, past favorite activities, and anything else just to use and feel “normal.”
Habitual use of opioids, and especially heroin, change the way an addict’s brain works. The nerve receptors in their brain will become dependent on the influx of opioids to function properly. When a user becomes dependent on opioids, they will be unable to stop taking them or decrease their dosage without experiencing the symptoms of withdrawal.
Opioids like heroin build a physical dependence in a matter of weeks. The symptoms of withdrawal from heroin are intensely unpleasant:
This brutal reality, in addition to the intense cravings, make relapse on heroin or other opioids common. Most heroin and opioid addicts are familiar with the early stages of withdrawal, as they will often experience them when they run out of drugs. But these symptoms don’t progress to their peak until 3 to 5 days after the last use. At that point, it’s common for recovering addicts to involuntarily stay awake for days due to extreme discomfort.
In rare situations, chemical dependency becomes so strong that opioid withdrawal can actually be fatal. That’s how severe they are. Addicts who have felt the wrath of heroin withdrawal most commonly fear going “cold turkey” — completely ceasing use without tapering down dosage or using other medications.
It highly recommended that a person with heroin addiction go through professionally supervised detox. Under supervision and care at heroin detox centers like ours in Orange County, addicts can receive all the health care they need throughout the detoxification process.
A progressive detox program is the foundation for a successful long term recovery. SoCal Sunrise Recovery Center’s Laguna Niguel heroin detox program utilizes the latest in evidence-based resources and medicine. We do this to make the detoxification process as comfortable, safe, and effective as possible.
The timeline for an opioid detox typically lasts about a week. This process can sometimes take longer if there are medical complications or if other substances are being abused along with heroin. Use of longer-lasting opioids can increase the duration of the detox period as well.
We offer what is known as a medication-assisted detox. In this type of detox, trained professionals will administer medications such as buprenorphine or naltrexone. They are opioids but lack the euphoric effects of abused opioids like heroin. Buprenorphine is commonly paired with naloxone (known as brand name Suboxone) to counter all euphoric feelings produced by buprenorphine. Naltrexone works similarly to naloxone in that they work to block highs caused by opioid use.
With extreme euphoria lacking, users can eventually get used to a more normal lifestyle. They can more quickly get back to things that previously brought them joy and keep their mental capacity up. And they can more easily participate in physical activity again — an essential part of our process here at SoCal Sunrise.
This medication-assisted treatment is important in starting heroin recovery on the right path. With the chemical dependency issues mostly taken care of through monitored medications, our team of addiction treatment experts can start fixing underlying problems with addiction.
At our Laguna Niguel heroin detox, our team has been trained to give top-notch individual care and guide group therapy to improve behavioral and mental health. We’re all about motivation and affection. We’ve helped many kick their heroin habit, and we love being part of their recoveries.
If you or a loved need to safely detox from drugs or alcohol, contact Southern California Sunrise Recovery Center Today.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email michael@socalsunrise.com
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to michael@socalsunrise.com
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