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info@whichrehab.co.uk
Are you based in Erdington in the West Midlands and battling drug or alcohol addiction? Which Rehab can help you take the first steps to recover. We refer to rehab services in your area, offering alcohol rehab or drug detox programme to meet your requirements.
Which Rehab is a referral service. We don’t own or run the clinics in the Birmingham we mention in this guide. Where we refer you to a private clinic, they pay us a fee, so our service is free to you.
The journey to kicking addiction starts with accepting you have a problem to start with. Denial is the main obstacle that prevents many people suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction seeking lifesaving treatment and accepting help. Even when it is blatantly obvious to all around them that professional help is needed, they still think that you are making a fuss over nothing and that they’re ok as they are.
That’s when an intervention can be effective. Interventions offer addicts and their friends and loved ones the opportunity to speak to a trained counsellor, who helps determine if they have a dependency and start the steps to getting the help they need.
Ready to start your alcohol detox or drug detox? Staying at a residential rehab clinic in the Birmingham area, close to Erdington, ensures help is at hand throughout your rehabilitation.
During your stay at one of the clinics we refer to, you will be in the care of trained medical staff. Doctors, nurses and psychiatric staff will first carry out a thorough assessment which will establish your medical history and any past association with addiction, before you proceed with detoxification.
Addictive substances such as drugs or alcohol, will be gradually washed from your system, which can lead to unpleasant, often painful side effects. Any required medication that can help lessen the withdrawal symptoms will be prescribed by our medical team.
When your medical detox is completed, regular therapy sessions can help you explore the mental aspect of addiction. Speak to a counsellor, either individually or as part of a group, who will talk you through any issues which could affect in your addiction. These sessions can play a crucial role in your drug and alcohol rehab.
The clinics we refer to often use contemporary therapy techniques, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy and Integrated Counselling Therapy in the treatment of addiction.
Your recovery should continue after you leave a rehab centre. You can make use of the clinic’s follow-up and aftercare services, where you’ll stay in touch with an advising team, either face-to-face or over the phone. They’ll offer you outpatient care, letting you get back to normal life more quickly. This is such an important service in the prevention of relapse and for maintaining rehab therapy.
There are various other organisations offering support in the Erdington area. These include the NHS, Social Work Services, Charity Rehabs as well as public and private partnerships. Beyond that there are fantastic group organisations like Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous and family support groups.
Your local GP can also help, but as with most NHS services, they can be under financial pressure as well as lengthy waiting times.
As they are not addiction treatment specialists, GPs will generally refer individuals to local specialist NHS services, such as the Local Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADP) or Community Addiction Teams (CAT), all of which are fantastic services.
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
Website: www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk | Telephone: 0800 9177 650
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a non-profit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only ONE requirement for membership, the desire to stop using.
Website: www.ukna.org/ | Telephone: 0300 999 1212
Cocaine Anonymous are a Fellowship of addicts who meet together to share our hope, faith, and courage for the purpose of staying sober and helping others achieve the same freedom. Everything heard at our meetings is to be treated as confidential. There are no dues or fees of any kind. To be a member, you only have to want to quit.
Website: www.cocaineanonymous.org.uk | Telephone: 0800 612 0225
UK SMART Recovery (UKSR) is a registered charity which promotes choice in recovery through a national network of mutual-aid meetings and online training programmes with comprehensive teaching materials and manuals. Our Programme teaches rational, easy to learn and self-empowering skills to help participants abstain from any addictive behaviour and to develop a lifestyle that supports sustained recovery.
Website: www.smartrecovery.org.uk// | Telephone: 0330 053 6022