When your body becomes accustomed to a large amount of a substance over a long period of time, there can be dangerous withdrawal symptoms if you simply stop taking it. This is true for the group of medications called benzodiazepines, which includes Xanax.

 

With Xanax (also known as Alprazolam), you can experience delirium and seizures from abruptly stopping your usage.

A person’s detox from Xanax is always a unique experience, dependent on many factors: 

 

• How much Xanax were they taking?
• How long have they been taking Xanax?
• Are they taking a long-acting benzodiazepine? Or short-acting? 
• Are they struggling with any other substance use disorders? 
• Are they taking another prescription drug?
• How is their overall health? 

 

Since a person’s Xanax detox can fall within a wide range, it’s important to work with a rehab center that is experienced in helping people detox from benzodiazepine.

Some people think they can kick their Xanax addiction by simply going to an outpatient clinic a few times a week. Unfortunately, this approach doesn’t work for most. 

 

Why? Because your addiction is driven by a deep-seeded issue that you have yet to heal. Identifying and working through this issue takes a great deal of time and energy. While you’re in this process, you’re in a very vulnerable state; it’s important that you’re surrounded by professionals who can help you move in a healthy direction, rather than revert back into shame. 

 

While outpatient treatment programs can be incredibly helpful for transitioning back to everyday life, they are not a replacement for residential, inpatient treatment.

We consistently find that previous stresses, life traumas and the beliefs associated with them are what often leads someone to abuse Xanax. Our powerful Core Belief Restructuring methodology helps our clients find the unaddressed emotional and psychological conditions that led to abusing this medication.

 

Our dynamically integrated program is the most effective treatment available to change self-destructive beliefs and patterns. We’re not here to bully, shame, manipulate or merely attempt to manage addictive behaviors. Rather than a confusing maze of treatments and modalities, we guide our clients on a holistic and cohesive path to recovery, focused on eliminating the actual causes of your addiction.

If you formed an addiction to Xanax, there’s a deeper issue going on that you haven’t been able to resolve on your own. Most of the time, we aren’t even aware of what these issues are. 

 

It’s important to find a program that will utilize every possible tool to help you become aware of the root causes of your addiction, as well as treat any co-occuring mental health issues you’re struggling with, like PTSD, anxiety, panic attacks, and depression.

 

The main way to help resolve these issues is through a combination of different therapeutic methods. There are benefits to individual therapy — where you get fully focused attention — as well as group therapy — where you can learn you’re not alone in your struggles. 

 

The kind of therapy you take part in is often overlooked. Most programs use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for most of their therapy sessions. While this is a great foundation, it’s often helpful to go beyond this and use a more experiential type of therapy. 

 

Experiential Engagement Therapy, for example, makes you an active participant in your therapy. Rather than simply talking, you’re trying out tools you can use when you become triggered or anxious. By actually experiencing and trying these coping mechanisms, you’re building the ability to have a different response in real-life situations.