Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center
Alternative to Meds Center is a treatment facility for drugs and alcohol. We investigate medical and biochemical reasons why an individual may be addicted, in physical or emotional pain, anxious, depressed, or psychotic, and heal these issues through employing the best holistic methods available. We also manage withdrawal from psychiatric medication and address underlying causes of addictive biochemistry and cravings.
By investigating addictive biochemical factors, we can reveal the neurochemistry that creates addictive cravings. Alternative to Meds Center specializes in restoration of healthy behaviors by correcting the addictive biochemistry. It is an addictive biochemistry that creates patterning and can be a large contributor for relapse. These methods can also greatly reduce or eliminate the symptoms that resulted in psychiatric medication use, as well as the desire for self-medicating with recreational drugs. Alternative to Meds Center is revolutionizing drug and alcohol treatment by addressing these medical components and well as the psychological and spiritual factors.
These methods offer relief of the cravings on a neurochemical level, which is often the level they are occurring on. A craving for Dopamine, the natural reward neurochemical, could result in Cocaine or Methamphetamine use. Benzodiazepines use, or self-medicating with alcohol is often a person’s only way to get sleep, or quiet anxiety. This can be due to low inhibitory neurotransmitters or accumulated neurotoxins that excite the nervous system. A deficiency of Endorphins, which are natural pain relievers, may contribute to Opiate use. Alcohol use often times is related to blood sugar issues, such as hypoglycemia, which is correctable with proper diet. The sugar cravings that come with hypoglycemia are a powerful survival mechanism that can overpower a persons will. Alcohol, as a liquid sugar, rapidly offsets low-blood sugar as it does not even have to be digested. It will go into the blood stream right from the stomach, and satisfy the blood sugar craving. This is all in the realm of addiction, and needs to be considered.
These issues may stem from the neurochemistry, and manifest as psychological or behavioral problems. They cannot, however, be treated purely as behavioral issues. To get lasting relief, they would need to be addressed as medical conditions as well. By using medical testing for toxicity to heavy metals, metabolic testing, and assessments that infer neurochemical functioning, we can discover which biochemical markers need to be addressed. Those markers are then treated using non-toxic substances and naturally occurring nutrients.
These methods offer relief of the cravings on a neurochemical level, which is often the level they are occurring on. A craving for Dopamine, the natural reward neurochemical, could result in Cocaine or Methamphetamine use. Benzodiazepines use, or self-medicating with alcohol is often a person’s only way to get sleep, or quiet anxiety. This can be due to low inhibitory neurotransmitters or accumulated neurotoxins that excite the nervous system. A deficiency of Endorphins, which are natural pain relievers, may contribute to Opiate use. Alcohol use often times is related to blood sugar issues, such as hypoglycemia, which is correctable with proper diet. The sugar cravings that come with hypoglycemia are a powerful survival mechanism that can overpower a persons will. Alcohol, as a liquid sugar, rapidly offsets low-blood sugar as it does not even have to be digested. It will go into the blood stream right from the stomach, and satisfy the blood sugar craving. This is all in the realm of addiction, and needs to be considered.
These issues may stem from the neurochemistry, and manifest as psychological or behavioral problems. They cannot, however, be treated purely as behavioral issues. To get lasting relief, they would need to be addressed as medical conditions as well. By using medical testing for toxicity to heavy metals, metabolic testing, and assessments that infer neurochemical functioning, we can discover which biochemical markers need to be addressed. Those markers are then treated using non-toxic substances and naturally occurring nutrients.
