Alcohol Detox

Our clinical team at Ocean Recovery provide a full detoxification service within our effective alcohol rehabilitation programme. This is simply the safest and most effective way to overcome alcoholism.

Our alcohol addiction withdrawal treatment takes place as part of our specialised detoxification programme, where every trace of the substance is withdrawn from your body in a medically supervised environment – all of our detoxification programmes come with a FREE 12-month aftercare package.

Our alcohol detox treatment programme is designed to assist clients in managing new strategies to control their alcohol use or achieve total sobriety from alcohol. Choosing our treatment programme will require an initial alcohol detox programme.

The purpose of this is to remove the alcohol within your system with clinical support, to ensure you safely detox from alcohol and can cope with the withdrawal effects you may experience.

Undergoing an alcohol detox is the first step toward sobriety. Below, we answer many of your questions regarding alcohol detox and alcohol rehabilitation; contact details will follow so you can get in touch and discover how we may help you.

What Happens During An Alcohol Detox Programme?

An alcohol detox within a clinical setting allows you to stop drinking alcohol in a medically controlled manner. Before your detox begins, you will be assessed by a psychiatrist. You will be assigned to a therapist and key worker; these professionals will assist you throughout the programme.

A psychiatrist will ask questions about your alcoholism during the initial assessment. During this assessment, the psychiatrist will gather relevant information about your health and any past alcoholism treatments you may have undergone.

It is vital to answer these questions correctly and thoroughly. The information you provide will help the psychiatrist in developing your individual detox and rehab plan.

The psychiatrist will also complete a physical and mental examination with you. This will help to unearth any conditions that must be treated during your recovery programme. You will then be prescribed suitable medication to help fight off alcohol withdrawal symptoms inevitably arising during the alcohol detox process.

After completing this initial assessment, you will be shown around the rehab clinic and taken to your room. You will then meet with your assigned therapist and key worker. These professionals will explain what happens during your detox and rehab programme. After completing all the above formalities, you will be supervised for 24-72 hours while you commence your detoxification treatment.

This enables our team to observe how you respond to this treatment and ensure you remain comfortable and safe throughout the process. If you are a ‘chronic alcoholic’, you will likely be at risk of severe withdrawal. So our team will monitor you closely for signs of serious illnesses associated with alcohol withdrawal, such as Delirium Tremens.

During an alcohol detox programme, much emphasis is placed on nutrition. When you abuse alcohol, you also tend to eat all the wrong foods. It’s also likely that you haven’t eaten enough food so you could be experiencing malnutrition. Our alcohol detox clinic will make sure you have a nutritional diet.

To help treat malnutrition during your alcohol detox programme, lots of quality food will be offered. You do not have to cook and prepare this food yourself because the detox clinic employs qualified chefs to ensure you are eating correctly. A qualified dietician designs meal plans.

Once the first 24-48 hours are completed, our team will work with you to start to plan and build your alcohol rehab programme, which will focus on a range of therapies to help you start to deal with your addiction, understand why you drink, how it affects your life and what you want to achieve during your treatment programme with us.

A typical alcohol detox programme in an alcohol detox clinic is run over a 7-10 day period. During this time, alcohol withdrawal symptoms will be closely monitored and treated. You will be given drugs such as Librium, disulfiram and naltrexone to help control cravings and treat alcohol withdrawal symptoms.

Medications to help reduce alcohol withdrawal symptoms are not the sole treatment you receive during alcohol detox. You will also benefit from a range of therapies. These therapies are offered whilst you undergo an alcohol detox programme.

At Ocean Recovery, we have experienced addiction staff and therapists, along with a range of psychiatrists, and psychologists, that are here to help you through any of your problems. You will be allocated your own worker to help you design your Recovery Action Plan (RAP) and guide you on your new journey to recovery.

How to Ease Alcohol Detox Symptoms

There exist many different ways to reduce alcohol detox symptoms. The best way to treat these symptoms is with a drug called Librium. Librium is a benzodiazepine.

It allows you to undergo an alcohol detox by slowly allowing chemicals in your brain to readjust without the sudden ‘jolt’ that would otherwise occur when alcohol consumption is abruptly stopped.

Librium does not utterly prevent alcohol withdrawal symptoms but vastly reduces these symptoms, particularly the more dangerous symptoms such as DTs.

We also prescribe secondary medications that help to reduce alcohol cravings. You will be prescribed Librium and other medications over the course of a 10-day alcohol detox at an alcohol detox clinic. These medications will be gradually reduced over this period.

Alcohol Detox with Insurance

Many alcohol detox clinics allow you to pay for your treatment through a valid health insurance policy.[2] Ocean Recovery Centre is no exception in this regard. You must download a claim form from your insurer’s website to claim through your insurer.

You then send our admission team the claim form so that our physician may complete this claim form on your behalf. We then send the completed claim form to your insurer for processing.

Your insurer’s claim department will review your application and decide to grant, conditionally, or reject your claim for rehab funding.

Our admissions team will discuss other funding options if your claim is rejected. This may include self-funding and advice on paying through a payment plan.

Outpatient Vs Inpatient Alcohol Detox

When you enquire about going to an alcohol detox clinic, you will quickly discover outpatient and inpatient options. Whilst the distinction between the two may sound obvious, the benefits and drawbacks of each are often less apparent.

Inpatient treatment involves more significant expenses than outpatient treatment. However, this cost is well-spent and far more intensive than outpatient treatment. When you attend an inpatient clinic, you will benefit from 24-hour care. This is vital given that alcohol detox is a sufficiently dangerous procedure to warrant 24-hour medical care.

You will focus on your recovery 24 hours a day. This means inpatient rehab is intensive and, thus, highly effective. Because you are removed from your home, you will also be removed from the stresses of daily life. This allows you to invest your energy solely in your recovery.

During your time at an inpatient clinic, you will participate in group therapy, individual therapy and complementary therapies throughout the day. This treatment is particularly advantageous for those who suffer from dually diagnosed mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.

Outpatient treatment allows you to receive therapy and treatments during the day. However, you return to your home following the completion of daily sessions. The critical advantage of outpatient treatment is that your professional and family life is unimpeded.

This treatment is particularly beneficial for those suffering from mild alcoholism. If you choose to attend an outpatient clinic, you would be well advised to attend an intensive outpatient programme where therapies and treatments run over an entire day and not for just one or two hours a day.

Can You Carry Out an Alcohol Detox at Home?

According to the NHS statistics, in 2021, 167,000 prescription items were dispensed to treat alcohol dependence. This was 1% higher than the previous year.

Alcohol is still seen as an innocent substance; however, it is still a dangerous substance that can destroy lives, relationships, ambitions, and dreams. The longer you abuse alcohol, the more difficult it becomes to stop drinking alcohol. For many alcohol addicts, alcohol detox becomes the only option to eliminate the alcohol in your body.

Alcohol detox is not something you can easily do by yourself. The process of detoxifying refers to removing all toxins from your body, and alcohol detox is, therefore, the process of removing all traces of alcohol from your body.

As alcohol affects almost every cell in the body, it is very complicated to withdraw from it. Rehabilitation clinics generally recommend that those affected by alcoholism complete an alcohol detox programme before entering rehabilitation. It is necessary for all traces of alcohol to be removed from the body so that the person is completely clean before attempting rehab.

Learn More About Our Alcohol Treatment Options

Get in touch with us today and we will talk to you about our different treatment options. If you’re worried that you have any of these symptoms of alcohol dependence, or you’d like to learn more about the withdrawal process, then contact us and see how we may be able to help.

There are a number of questions which we are regularly asked surrounding alcohol detoxification, so we have answered some of the most common queries below.