For success in sobriety, people should immediately move from detoxing into in-depth addiction treatment. The length of time that this transfer takes is different for everyone. Our admissions process ensures that your care is perfectly structured to suit your circumstances, your state of health, and your ability to apply your focus to treatment as needed. This is why our patients additionally meet with a therapist on their first day. This meeting won’t be an intensive or full-length therapy session. Instead, it will be a brief check-in to find out if you’re dealing with any anxiety, insomnia, or other psychological challenges that might make your detox unnecessarily difficult. Along with our medical staff, your therapist can determine whether any medications might be beneficial for promoting a sense of rest and ease.

Ongoing monitoring of your vitals will start during the admissions process. With an alcohol detox, withdrawal symptoms can manifest within just six hours of a person’s last drink. With opiates and other highly addictive substances, this window can be smaller or larger depending upon the history of use and the amount of substances used. We’ll make sure that your heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar, and cognition remain stable by continuing to do vital checks throughout the entire first week of your care or longer. If medications are deemed necessary for mitigating your withdrawal symptoms, and are determined unlikely to delay or derail your recovery, you’ll be given a list of the medications that have been prescribed, along with detailed information on their effects and benefits.