Cocaine Rehab in New York
If you’re struggling with cocaine addiction and finding it difficult to quit on your own, specialized rehab programs in New York, like those at Elevate Point, can provide personalized treatment to help manage withdrawal symptoms, cravings, and addictive behaviors. Cocaine use often disrupts appetite and metabolism, leading to nutritional imbalances, which can be addressed through targeted nutritional therapy to restore healthy eating habits and improve overall well-being. Since cocaine cravings can persist for six months or longer, long-term craving management and emotional regulation are key components of effective recovery. Elevate Point offers individualized outpatient programs that support both mind and body, allowing you to receive care while balancing your daily responsibilities.
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How Cocaine Changes the Brain
Cocaine is naturally derived from the Coca plant and, throughout history, has been used by South American cultures to help adjust to things like altitude sickness and, since that time, used as a synthetic anesthetic for surgery under medical supervision.
However, cocaine derivatives or synthetics used for surgery and pain management come with a risk of addiction. Moreover, individuals struggling with addiction to other substances may find themselves turning to cocaine.
How does addiction develop?
Cocaine stimulates the dopamine system responsible for reinforcing healthy behaviors like productivity, healthy eating, exercise, and procreation by releasing dopamine. Under normal circumstances, if you learn a new skill, eat a nutritious meal or exercise, you will get a positive feeling brought about by a release of dopamine.
Cocaine initiates that same type of feeling, but it is more short-lived and much more intense. This happens because cocaine stops your brain from reabsorbing the dopamine, but it would normally reabsorb after a designated amount of time. By flooding your circuits with higher levels than normal, you feel an intense high beyond what you can get under normal circumstances.
Eventually, this forces the brain to focus on replicating that high through the only available means: more cocaine use.
Signs of Cocaine Addiction
Cocaine use in the short-term can cause issues like:
- Irritability
- Runny nose
- Anxiety
- Panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Muscle twitches
- Violent or erratic behavior
- Increased temperature, blood pressure, or heart rate
- Dilated pupils
The longer an individual goes without getting help from cocaine rehab in New York, the worse the symptoms can become and the more likely an individual is to succumb to financial or legal troubles as a result of cocaine use.
When to Get Help
Unfortunately, chronic cocaine use disrupts this natural reward system, making it so that you do not get a positive reward for positive behaviors like healthy eating, exercise, and productivity. Cocaine can also change the way your brain responds to stress. That is why it is so important to find the right treatment if you or someone close to you is struggling with a cocaine addiction.
If you are struggling with signs of cocaine addiction, have found yourself attempting to quit but unable to on your own, or have seen a detrimental impact on your daily function, we can help.
Finding a Cocaine Rehab in New York
Cocaine rehab in New York can offer personalized treatment that gives you the coping skills to manage things like withdrawal symptoms and cravings, as well as different therapies to help you control addictive behaviors, regulate emotions, and deal with stress.
With Elevate Point, we offer things like intensive outpatient programs where adults and adolescents can find the right type of care in and around other responsibilities.
Nutritional Therapy
Cocaine acts as an appetite suppressant and that means that many people who use cocaine do not feel hunger and don’t eat with the same regularity they should. As users might skip food frequently, they are more likely to overcompensate later by overeating and consuming foods that are high in fats or carbohydrates.
Studies have found that cocaine use interferes with metabolic processes as well, which can result in reduced body fat during use and then excessive weight gain during recovery because of an imbalance in fat storage and processing.
With the right nutritional therapy, our team can help you rectify nutritional and metabolic damage by learning healthy eating habits and a deeper understanding of the impact that healthy nutrition plays on your mood and overall well-being.
Long-Term Craving Management
Cocaine addiction has some of the longest withdrawal symptoms, with cravings that can last six months or more. That is why it’s so important to find the right type of rehab program, one that offers lasting life skills, emotional regulation, and coping mechanisms that you can apply to moments of stress, to days when you have very high cravings, and to unexpected challenges.
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Find Treatment For Cocaine at Elevate Point
Cocaine addiction can happen a bit faster than other drugs and can be harder to deal with. That is why our team provides a range of individualized care programs that treat the mind and body at the same time. Our outpatient programs make it possible to get the help you need in a time frame that works for you.
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FAQs
One is not necessarily better than the other. Rather, they are each designed to fulfill specific needs based on the level of care and support you require. The key difference is that an inpatient program requires you to live at your facility full-time, whereas our flexible outpatient programs allow you to return home each night after your treatment. When you reach out to our team at 646-566-0140, our admissions staff can help you determine what level of care is best for your circumstances.
There are several things that can influence your likelihood of developing an addiction to cocaine, like having a pre-existing conduct disorder or experiencing physical abuse in childhood. Genetics, environment, upbringing, and several other factors can contribute to the likelihood of addiction, but no matter the cause, our team can help you find recovery.
Cocaine and similar derivatives are highly addictive in large part because the drug can reach your brain in a matter of seconds and produce a high that is very short in length. That short length followed by an intense low makes it more likely that you will develop a dependence on cocaine to help overcome the “low” and to replicate and sustain the high. If you or someone close to you is struggling with cocaine addiction, we can help.
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