Sometimes clients present with more than one type of addiction. Drug and alcohol rehab centers can be successful in treating multiple addictions at the same time if the enviroment of the rehab center can made safe for the client. If someone has a existing co-addiction with sex or gambling, the drug rehab program will help both, if the boundaries of the rehab can support it.

The client may have to openly relinquish internet access if they have a gambling addiction. If sexual issues arise maybe a same sex only rehab may be helpful. The core issues of stopping harmful compulsive behavior are the same. The stressors leading to relapse are going to be similar. Simply writing a clear and sane set of boundaries with your counseling team could be immensly powerful.

Sometimes it may be useful only concentrating on the most destructive and dangerous of one’s addictions, however properly structured, it is possible to treat more than one at the same time.

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