Feeling suicidal during recovery – Drug opiate addiction recovery in British Columbia and Alberta – Options Okanagan Treatment Centers in Kelowna, British Columbia treating drug, opiate, fentanyl, heroin and alcohol addiction and recovery.
Drug Rehab In Alberta And BC
In many ways, there is little difference between drug and alcohol addiction, and suicide. while many won’t end up losing their life at the time they’re doing drugs, they are slowly, but surely, poisoning their body’s and their minds.
Many people have strong thoughts about suicide when they’re high and active in their addiction and during their recovery. Many of them who become sober are unable to stop the self-harm that addiction causes before serious permanent damage has been done. Many die tragically during their active drug and alcohol addiction phases. It’s important to take the time to understand how drug addiction and depression and suicide interact in order to help your loved one make the choice for help.
Impaired Impulse Control And Judgment
An addiction to drugs and alcohol is hard to overcome and the person tends to go all out every time they use. They will drink to become drunk, they will use drugs to get high. There is no in-between. When they do this, there are some serious psychological effects that are absolutely overwhelming. That is typically the point for them to escape the reality of their lives.
Sadly, heavy drug and alcohol use can also greatly impair the basic functions that let a person live their lives in a safe environment. While they’re using, they are at a greater risk to misjudge traffic and walk out in front of or pull out in front of vehicles that are headed right toward them, they are at a higher risk of falling, they lose their impulse control and don’t think before they act. They give in to their impulses and make poor choices that can put their health and their very lives at great risk. It can also disrupt other areas of their lives.
Impaired Judgment Can Increase Suicide Danger
Addiction multiplies the risk of suicide in a really frightening way. Combined with poor judgment, poor impulse control, and the emptiness and despair that addicts live with on a daily basis the risk of suicide is exponentially increased. At some point of time or another, issues begin to pile up and become overwhelming. The addict’s mind becomes very negative and they begin to have thoughts worthlessness, that no one cares, that others would be better off if they were gone, and many just give up on life because they feel absolutely hopeless and spiral out of control. Sober suicidal persons may reach out for help, but the intoxicated or high suicidal person lacks that impulse control and is far less likely to reach out for help. This is even worse for a person who has a history of depression or attempted suicide. If someone has become intoxicated, they are far less likely to make the right choices. They may make a suicide gesture for attention but accidentally follow through with it due to a misjudgment in their actions.
Drug Addiction in Alberta and BC
Reduce The Risk Of Suicide By Getting Sober Now
The best way to reduce suicide risk is to become sober now and remain so. It may take some time for the addict to begin to completely turn their life around. However, their risk for suicide will greatly drop if they are sober. As their lives improve, they will have less of a risk for suicide and fewer reasons to take their own life. It’s important to always have a safety net and plan with their recovery plan. Give us a call today for more information on how to become sober.
Opiate Addiction Treatment in Alberta and BC
Options Okanagan Opiate and Alcohol Treatment Centers in Kelowna, Salmon Arm and Vancouver, British Columbia – Men and Women are recovering and healing from Alcohol and Drug Abuse at our treatment center here in the Okanagan right now.
Our unique and distinctive Opiate Drug and Alcohol treatment program allows men and women to come in from Calgary as well as Edmonton as we offer airport pickup.
Numerous clients come to us from Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton and other locations in Alberta and even other provinces for Opiate addiction treatment, heroin drug treatment, many other drug and alcohol addictions for rehabilitation because of the uniqueness of our treatment center.
Our Opioid Treatment Location:
Options Okanagan Drug and Opiate Treatment Center
551 Sherrydale Crescent, Kelowna, British Columbia, V1V 2E6
Toll Free Phone Number : 1-855-335-0331