If you are going to make permanent change in your drug addiction treatment you have to attack and change the beliefs that are wrong or don’t support you. Do it while you are in rehab or as soon as come back, but do it.

Breaking Down Your Erroneous Beliefs

People struggling with their addiction often ascribe their drug and alcohol use to “uncontrollable cravings and urges”

However, it is certain dysfunctional beliefs that tend to fuel these cravings and the actions.

Abusers tend to ignore, minimize or deny problems arising from their drug use or attribute these problems to something other than the drugs or alcohol.

Another core set of beliefs centers around the individual’s sense of hopelessness in controlling craving.

Cognitive therapy reduces self defeating behaviors by modifying erroneous thinking and maladaptive beliefs and teaching techniques of control

Cognitive Therapy In Drug Addiction Treatment

Is collaborative and builds trust.

It views drug taking or drinking as a technical problem for which there is a technical solution.

You can learn to interrupt the craving and urge cycle.(Pg. 41, “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse,” Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese, The Guilford Press, New York, 1993.)

If you seek a more permanent solution to your addiction problems you may require some competent Cognitive therapy. If the rehab facility did not have this as part of their program, just find a therapist to deal with this as you leave rehab. It is just one more important piece of the sobriety puzzle and the keys to a great life.

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