Knowing Your Treatment Options Will Help You Recover

Addiction is a brain disease that requires a treatment plan, just like other diseases. There are physical, psychological, and behavioral effects to address – and each person has unique needs.

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Treatment Levels

This unique approach helps patients maintain their sobriety from stimulants, opiates, and benzodiazepines by controlling their cravings.

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You have options

Treatment Levels

It usually takes a person hitting rock bottom before they decide to change and get help. Below are simple instructions that will show you the different levels of treatment. You have options. Some may work and others may not. Your treatment plan needs to fit you.

Lower intensityHigher intensity

Outpatient services
Outpatient services provide a supportive recovery environment.
Intensive outpatient / partial hospitalization
Increased therapy sessions. Possible hospitalization for withdrawal or other issues.
Residential inpatient services
24-hour care, structured setting. May include medical, nursing or clinical care or monitoring.
Medically managed intensive inpatient
24-hour nursing care, daily physician care. Highly structured environment. Therapeutic counseling services available.

Ketamine and NAD+ infusion therapy

How Do NAD+ and Ketamine Therapy Help Drug Addiction?

Dr. Liang recommends NAD+ and ketamine infusion therapy in order to address:

Post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS)

PAWS can affect you weeks, months, and even years after you stop using the drug. Symptoms include depression, anxiety, irritability, sleep disturbances, and impaired cognition. By rapidly creating new neural connections, ketamine and NAD+ combination therapy dramatically eliminates or reduces these symptoms.

Cravings

The new pathways established by your drug use continue to demand more of the drug, which leads to cravings. Ketamine and NAD+ combination therapy disrupts these pathways and creates new ones. Ketamine works quickly on these problems, sometimes after just one treatment, as new connections are formed in your brain that bypass the addiction.

Detoxification

Similar to alcohol addiction, ketamine and NAD+ combination therapy are extremely effective in the detoxification process from stimulants, opiates, benzodiazepines, and kratom. NAD+ is especially effective at reducing the oxidative stress at the cellular level that occurs during detoxification.

What are the signs of drug addiction?

Dependency and Addiction

Drug addiction carries with it two components: dependency and addiction. The dependency aspect is when your body physically needs the drug and goes into withdrawal when it’s not available. The addiction component leads to obsessive cravings and uncontrolled use. Combined, these two components often lead to:

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Physical withdrawal, such as the shakes or flu-like symptoms, or worse
The inability to control use
Poor performance at work or school
Isolation
Choosing your drug of choice over other activities
Financial issues
Difficulty in relationships with friends and family
Depression and suicide

There’s very little in your life that drug addiction doesn’t affect, which is why treatments designed for long-term abstinence work best.

What is a drug addiction?

Addiction Rewires Your Brain

Drug addiction is a chronic disease that compels people to use drugs in a way that’s harmful to their health. The reason this happens is that a drug addiction rewires your brain, creating new pathways that are designed solely for drug use.

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The cortex

The cortex is the outer layer of gray matter, responsible for decision-making, thinking, learning and willpower. You can treat the effects of addiction on the cortex with counseling.

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The limbic region

The limbic region is the internal portion of the brain, responsible for rewards, pleasure and basic drives and urges. You can treat the effects of addiction on the limbic region with medication.

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