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Searching for a benzodiazepine addiction treatment program in the New York City area? Look no further than Elevate Point’s Benzo Rehab Program in Brooklyn, New York. With a focus on lasting recovery, Elevate Point provides a supportive environment where clients can safely manage benzo detox through cognitive behavioral therapy, additional evidence-based therapies, and holistic practices. Our program equips individuals with the guidance and support needed throughout the detox process, helping manage withdrawal symptoms and associated conditions. Discover the impact of comprehensive benzo addiction treatment with Elevate Point and take the next step toward a healthier, more stable recovery.
Benzo Addiction Treatment
Benzodiazepines are a group of prescription drugs typically prescribed for conditions like anxiety disorders and sleep disorders. However, they do have addictive properties to them, which means anyone who regularly uses benzos to manage a mental health condition is at risk for developing a substance abuse problem. Moreover, with rising rates of prescriptions among adults, teenagers are at risk due to non-medical benzo use due to easy access in the home.
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Rising Rates of Benzo Abuse
Non-medical benzodiazepine use is the highest among adults between the ages of 18 and 25 across New York, outpacing the previously highest usage group of adults between ages 50 and 64. With this increase in non-medical benzodiazepine use, New York City and the state are seeing increased emergency department visits related to benzodiazepines and overdose deaths.
- Benzodiazepine abuse has been most common among adolescents living in Staten Island, nearly twice that of other burrows
- Two percent of all adolescents between grades 7 and 12 in private and public schools throughout the city have reported misusing benzodiazepines at least once
- Benzodiazepine-related emergency department visits are most common in adults between the ages of 35 and 44
- The most significant increase, 156 percent of benzodiazepine-related emergency department visits, was for New Yorkers between the ages of 25 and 29
- Over 50 percent of overdose deaths involving benzodiazepines included two or more types of benzodiazepines, with another 33 percent involving at least three or more drugs
Benzodiazepine-related overdose deaths throughout the city increased by almost twenty percent by 2010, with prescription and illicit benzodiazepine-related overdoses significantly increasing during COVID-19.Â
The most common benzodiazepines used for non-medical abuse and found in overdose-related deaths include:
- Alprazolam (Xanax) at 26 percent
- Oxazepam (Serax) at 13 percent
- Diazepam (Valium) at 13 percent
- Clonazepam (Knolopin) at 10 percent
- Temazepam (Restoril) at 8 percent
Throughout the city, neighborhoods with the highest levels of unintentional Benzo-related overdoses include Staten Island, Lower Manhattan, and Canarsie Flatlands in Brooklyn. Residents who live in middle-income neighborhoods have double the risk of Benzo abuse and overdose rates. Given these high risks it’s important to recognize what the treatment process looks like and why you need professional Benzo rehabs New York based.Â
How Benzos Work
Benzodiazepines go by many names. They also work very quickly, working within a matter of 30 minutes. However, the effects wear off equally as fast, within a matter of hours.
Benzos work by reducing GABA transmissions in your brain, essentially slowing down communication between your brain and your central nervous system. This creates a sedative effect, which is why it’s often prescribed for seizure disorders, muscle spasms, anxiety disorders, or insomnia.
However, benzos are highly addictive, especially because of the effectiveness they have in managing short-term anxiety attacks or insomnia.
Signs of Benzo Addiction
Benzodiazepines can cause many symptoms of addiction, physical, behavioral, psychological, and financial. Teenagers, for example, who have access to the medicine cabinet might steal prescriptions from their parents, taking one or two pills at a time, so it goes unnoticed. Adults might exaggerate claims of anxiety or lie about symptoms to get prescriptions from multiple doctors.
Unfortunately, the withdrawal symptoms from benzodiazepines can be problematic.Â
Benzo Withdrawal Treatment
Finding Benzo rehabs in New York is essential for your withdrawal treatment. Benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed for things like panic attacks, anxiety, and sleep disorders but, the process of withdrawal symptoms can be life-threatening. Withdrawal symptoms start with things like rebound anxiety or insomnia. Whatever it was you were treating with your benzos is likely to come back, and it can feel much stronger than before.
As these feelings start to diminish, you also deal with things like:
- Dizziness
- Problems concentrating
- Blurred vision
- Neck and face pain
- Cramps
- Muscle tension
- Sweating
- Shaking
The symptoms can be physical or psychological, and they will range in severity, ebbing and flowing over the span of several days. It is important to get treatment that offers detox support, particularly with medication. Prescription and over-the-counter medication can help keep you as comfortable as possible during withdrawal, reducing the severity of certain symptoms and alleviating others.
At our adolescent and adult treatment programs, we provide detox services to keep you at ease.
After detox, your benzo withdrawal treatment will include therapy, and there are many options, but cognitive behavioral therapy is one of the primary options as it often relates to better management of symptoms for associated disorders like anxiety.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Benzo Treatment
There are many types of evidence-based therapies that can be effective for addiction recovery but one of the most effective for benzo treatment is cognitive behavioral therapy. Individuals who are utilizing a slow tapering for benzo addiction, an addiction brought about by a prescription of benzodiazepines for anxiety disorders, are more likely to remain in therapy and successfully recover with the integration of cognitive behavioral therapy.
Holistic Practices
Another aspect to our treatment programs at Elevate Point involve holistic practices, things designed to heal you on every level. People struggling with addiction may have an underlying anxiety disorder or may have other areas of stress that negatively influence sleep patterns.
With things like our nutritional counseling, yoga, art therapy, and mindfulness, we provide education and tools needed to better manage things that contribute to addiction.Â
Find Help Today
If you or someone in your family is struggling with an addiction to benzodiazepines, the first step is getting help at Benzo rehabs in New York. With Elevate Point, we can help you manage your detox so that you are better able to ease your transition into recovery, completing your journey with additional therapies and holistic practices designed to promote mind-body wellness and give you healthier coping strategies for underlying conditions.Â
Call us today at 212.285.2022 to see how our Benzo rehabs in New York can help you recover.Â
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