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Sleep deprivation and poor sleep quality can color every aspect of your life. Many clients who come to Promises for treatment suffer from sleep disorders that either contributed to their substance use or developed as a result of their drug or alcohol use. Promises sleep disorder treatment centers offer evidence-based care for both the sleep disorder and the substance abuse.
If you have co-occurring substance abuse issues, the first step in recovery will be alcohol or drug detox center. If you’ve developed a dependence on sleeping pills, detox may also be necessary. On the other hand, some people may experience sleep disturbances during the detoxification process. Their bodies and minds are not yet accustomed to being free of substances and this can affect sleep. Where appropriate, sleep medicine can be given to help with any sleeplessness. Tapers off prescription sleeping pills are sometimes an appropriate course of treatment as well. Our medical team will monitor you around the clock to make sure you’re safe and comfortable. We’ll attend to any withdrawal symptoms promptly.
During your stay at a residential drug rehab center, our medical and psychiatric team will evaluate you for co-occurring issues like mental health disorders and substance abuse. This way we can address all of the issues that are contributing to your difficulties. It’s critical that clients who are having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep be evaluated for other medical and psychiatric disorders that can cause insomnia and other sleep disorders. For instance, we find many clients suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This condition sometimes causes obstructive sleep issues like nightmares and flashbacks. For people struggling with substance abuse, insomnia can trigger relapse. People with chronic insomnia are three times more likely to relapse than those without insomnia.
You’ll delve into underlying reasons contributing to sleep issues and destructive behaviors in one-on-one counseling sessions. A trained therapist will help you tackle unhealthy thinking and heal emotional wounds. Group therapy is an opportunity to connect with peers that know where you’re coming from. You’ll gain new insight into yourself and problems. You’ll practice healthy communication skills.
In addition to individual and group therapy, we offer alternative treatment options. Substance abuse, mental health and sleep disorders treatment programs may include:
Inpatient treatment helps you practice healthy self-care like good sleep hygiene. Regular sleep times help get circadian rhythms back in sync. Sleep medicine is used sparingly, if at all, as to discourage physical or psychological dependency on drugs in order to sleep.
You’ll live alongside peers sharing similar struggles. Our treatment center and residences include:
We prepare you for life after treatment. You’ll gain healthy coping skills for positive lifestyle changes. Aftercare planning may include:
Gallop polls show many American adults get around 6.8 hours total sleep a night. Some of the reasons for this is a fast-paced, busy culture, but many people aren’t getting enough sleep due to real medical conditions. The American Sleep Association estimates 50-70% of Americans have a sleep disorder.
There seems to be an unlimited amount of sleep disorder “remedies” on the market. Some are more effective than others. The type of sleep aids that work depend on the specifics of the sleep disorder. Some popular sleep aides include:
If poor sleep behaviors are due to drug and alcohol abuse or other issues, these conditions must be addressed to get to the root cause of the problem.
According to the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, there are over 100 types of sleep disorders. A variety of sleep disorders may occur with or without substance abuse. Some common sleep disorders include:
People with chronic insomnia regularly have difficulty falling asleep, may wake up too early, or they may wake up periodically throughout the night and have trouble falling back asleep.
This issue causes snoring or an increase in respiratory effort that causes people to awake during sleep. It results in daytime disturbances like sleepiness and headaches.
Restless leg syndrome is a strong urge to move the leg accompanied by tingling, crawling or twitching sensations in the leg. Usually restless leg syndrome occurs at night, making it difficult to sleep. Treatment of restless legs includes adjusting sleep habits. Medication can help is some cases.
Narcolepsy is plagued by feelings of excessive sleepiness that may present a number of issues including hallucinations, sleep paralysis and cataplexy (muscle weakness or paralysis). During an episode of sleep paralysis, you feel conscious, but unable to move.
People with obstructive sleep apnea may experience very shallow breathing or breathing interruptions during sleep. This happens several times a night and makes it difficult to enter REM sleep. Throat muscles relax and block the airway. This can cause loud snoring.
Also called night terrors, sleep terrors are more common in children, but do occur in a small percentage of adults. Sleep terrors are characterized by intense fear during sleep that includes flailing and screaming.
Disorders of circadian rhythms include disruptions to the body’s internal clock that change sleep patterns and decrease sleep quality. Circadian rhythm disorders can result from jet lag, shift work (shift work sleep disorder) and narcolepsy. They can also occur by regularly going to bed very late and “sleeping in,” like sleep patterns of teenagers. This is a type of circadian rhythm sleep disorder known as delayed sleep phase syndrome.
This condition involves involuntary leg and arm movements during sleep. Limb movement disorder can affect sleep efficiency. People with this condition may have a hard time getting an adequate amount of deep sleep.
People with REM sleep behavior disorder often “act out” their dreams. They experience abnormalities with the paralysis component of sleep that usually keeps people from being active in sleep.
A common problem is that some healthcare professionals may not fully explore a history of drug or alcohol abuse in patients who complain of insomnia during a routine checkup. Prescribing sleep medications to patients abusing drugs and alcohol is a slippery slope. It worsens their addiction and may increase the risk of an unintentional overdose. Some people begin depending on alcohol and other drugs as sleep aids. This also creates a viscous cycle that requires interventions like detox and behavioral treatments.
Symptoms of sleep disorders run the gamut depending on the type of condition. General symptoms of poor sleep quality or sleep disorders include:
During our sleep disorder treatment programs at Promises, our clinicians help ease the symptoms of sleep disturbances that may occur with substance abuse, drug and alcohol detox, and behavioral disorders. Call us today to learn more about our mental health and addiction treatment centers in Austin 1.713.528.3709.
Posted on July 21, 2017 and modified on April 27, 2019
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