The number of people with alcohol abuse is bigger than drug abuse. It is because alcohol is easy to find and has become the part of the society’s life. When we are comparing the treatment method between drug and alcohol treatment, alcohol treatment is so much simpler than drug treatment because it does not cause as severe effect as drugs. However, if we are talking about the detoxification effect, alcohol detoxification side- effects are just as bad as drug detoxification side- effects.
Some of the side- effects that should be passed by patients are covering psychological and physical side- effects. Psychological side- effects usually occur are severe anxiety, depression, nervous, bad dreams, mood swing, and many others. On the physical aspect, the common side- effects are larger pupils, sleeping disorder, headache, vomiting, sweating, and many others. Some patients are even suffering from severe effects like black out, agitation, fever, hallucination, and some others. The alcohol treatment patients should be monitored continuously, moreover if the patients have severe side- effects. On the alcohol treatment centers, usually patients should pass three basic treatments.
The first treatment is keeping their body free from alcohol, on this first stage; patients are usually having high hallucination. The second treatment is related to the effect of alcohol to the patients’ body, especially liver. After that, the last treatment is rehabilitation. In the rehabilitation, patients are handled physiologically and physically. Group meeting and consultation with the psychiatrist is needed to cure the patients’ mental and avoid them to get another addiction after the rehabilitation. Physical treatment becomes the major treatment too because various disorder might happen to the patients’ body. To get the total recovery, it is suggested to use long term rehab on the reputable rehabilitation center. With that way, all the problems caused by the abuse are handled perfectly.