Addiction Relief NeuConnections November 26, 2023

Ketamine Therapy for Addiction

Ketamine Therapy for
Addiction

Ketamine Therapy for Addiction

Overconsumption disorders such as alcohol and substance use disorders (AUDs, SUDs) are some of the most common and debilitating disorders to affect people around the world. Substance abuse, also known as addiction, is the uncontrollable urge to use harmful substances despite knowing the negative consequences on virtually every aspect of your life. These disorders represent leading causes of preventable mortality and morbidity and are fundamentally acquired or learned behaviors. Click Here to read more about addiction.

Overconsumption disorders such as alcohol and substance use disorders (AUDs, SUDs) are some of the most common and debilitating disorders to affect people around the world. Substance abuse, also known as addiction, is the uncontrollable urge to use harmful substances despite knowing the negative consequences on virtually every aspect of your life. These disorders represent leading causes of preventable mortality and morbidity and are fundamentally acquired or learned behaviors.
Click Here to read more about addiction.

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How Ketamine Can Help

  • Decrease the urge to use alcohol / drugs and helps with abstinence periods
  • Elevates the mood and creates appreciation for the loved ones and life
  •  Reactivates and stimulates neurons, alleviating the changes in the brain caused by excessive consumption of drugs / alcohol
  • Improves withdrawal symptoms in those receiving treatment
  • Reliefs the mind and body to continue the journey to be free of drug / alcohol addiction
  • Balances chemicals in the brain to allow the mind and body relief to continue the journey to be free of drug / alcohol addiction
  • Helps in the therapy to understand the underlying issues that have caused the addiction
  • Effects physical reaction to anxiety like sweating, rapid heart rate, shaking, muscle and joint pain, nausea, headaches
  • Aids with nervousness or restlessness, irritability and uncontrollable worry or fear
  • Decrease the urge to use alcohol / drugs and helps with abstinence periods
  • Elevates the mood and creates appreciation for the loved ones and life
  •  Reactivates and stimulates neurons, alleviating the changes in the brain caused by excessive consumption of drugs / alcohol
  • Improves withdrawal symptoms in those receiving treatment
  • Reliefs the mind and body to continue the journey to be free of drug / alcohol addiction
  • Balances chemicals in the brain to allow the mind and body relief to continue the journey to be free of drug / alcohol addiction
  • Helps in the therapy to understand the underlying issues that have caused the addiction
  • Effects physical reaction to anxiety like sweating, rapid heart rate, shaking, muscle and joint pain, nausea, headaches
  • Aids with nervousness or restlessness, irritability and uncontrollable worry or fear

How Ketamine Works

Increases Neuroplasticity

Boosts neuroplasticity, which promotes the brain’s ability to adapt, heal, and learn new behaviors and patterns.

Stimulates Neural Pathways

Stimulates growth of neural pathways and disrupts thought loops and behavioral patterns that may contribute to addictive behaviors.

Regulates Emotions

Helps control emotions and creates an anti-anxiety effect helping to alleviate the need to continue to use.

Rapid Antidepressant Effect

Regulates glutamate, a vital neurotransmitter that helps us process thoughts and emotions.

A New You

Ketamine offers new hope for lasting life change for those suffering from addiction.

Increases Neuroplasticity

Boosts neuroplasticity, which promotes the brain’s ability to adapt, heal, and learn new behaviors and patterns.

Stimulates Neural Pathways

Stimulates growth of neural pathways and disrupts thought loops and behavioral patterns that may contribute to addictive behaviors.

Regulates Emotions

Helps control emotions and creates an anti-anxiety effect helping to alleviate the need to continue to use.

Rapid Antidepressant Effect

Regulates glutamate, a vital neurotransmitter that helps us process thoughts and emotions.

A New You

Ketamine offers new hope for lasting life change for those suffering from addiction.

Increases Neuroplasticity

Boosts neuroplasticity, which promotes the brain’s ability to adapt, heal, and learn new behaviors and patterns.

Regulates Emotions

Helps control emotions and creates an anti-anxiety effect helping to alleviate the need to continue to use.

A New You

Ketamine offers new hope for lasting life change for those suffering from addiction.

Stimulates Neural Pathways

Stimulates growth of neural pathways and disrupts thought loops and behavioral patterns that may contribute to addictive behaviors.

Rapid Antidepressant Effect

Regulates glutamate, a vital neurotransmitter that helps us process thoughts and emotions.

When ketamine treatment is paired with psychological therapy and integration coaching, our clients are using as many avenues as possible to address the issues plaguing them. Relief from addiction can begin to be experienced in as short as the first infusion session. However, longer treatment regimen found by researchers and approved by our medical director is required to achieve the longest lasting results and to properly address the causes of AUDs and SUDs.

Our individually tailored treatment will reactivate and reconnect neural pathways, balancing the chemicals in the brain damaged by drug and alcohol abuse, and help lead you to an improved version of yourself able to address the causes of addiction.

Are You Ready To Begin Your Journey?

Schedule a free consultation call with our patient care coordinator below. We’re happy to answer any and all questions you may have and are here to be your advocate on your journey to a better you.

Ketamine for Addiction FAQs

Addiction FAQs

Yes. While not a silver bullet, several studies have been conducted that showed ketamine was able to reduce the craving for alcohol and drugs. You still have to put in the work, but it can be a very effective tool and has the potential to be instrumental in helping patients connect with therapists during psychotherapy, another important part of your road to sobriety.

Given its ability to help you build new neural connections and disrupt thought and behavior loops, Ketamine has shown an ability to help prevent relapses.

It varies from patient to patient. Some cravings may subside shortly but sustained life changing results generally take 10+ infusions and occasional boosters, combined with therapy and other tools. While it isn’t easy, ketamine can be a great tool to assist you in retraining your brain and NeuConnections is here to be your advocate and ally. 

Yes! Ketamine is considered a World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicine and is one of the most commonly used anesthetics in the world because of its safety. Our Medical Director, Dr. Peck (Anesthesiologist), reviews all intakes and is available to speak with you directly if you have any concerns.  

Check out our Pricing Page for our most up to date pricing.

We started NeuConnections because we wanted to help people and we are committed to keeping our pricing as low as possible to make this life changing therapy accessible. Ketamine treatment is an investment in mental health. Allow this self-care to become an investment in your wellbeing; an investment that grows and pays dividends that last a lifetime.

The first step is an initial consultation with our patient care coordinator to answer any questions and discuss if treatment is right for you.

Visit our Begin Intake page to schedule your free consultation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. While not a silver bullet, several studies have been conducted that showed ketamine was able to reduce the craving for alcohol and drugs. You still have to put in the work, but it can be a very effective tool and has the potential to be instrumental in helping patients connect with therapists during psychotherapy, another important part of your road to sobriety.

Given its ability to help you build new neural connections and disrupt thought and behavior loops, Ketamine has shown an ability to help prevent relapses.

It varies from patient to patient. Some cravings may subside shortly but sustained life changing results generally take 10+ infusions and occasional boosters, combined with therapy and other tools. While it isn’t easy, ketamine can be a great tool to assist you in retraining your brain and NeuConnections is here to be your advocate and ally. 

Yes! Ketamine is considered a World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicine and is one of the most commonly used anesthetics in the world because of its safety. Our Medical Director, Dr. Peck (Anesthesiologist), reviews all intakes and is available to speak with you directly if you have any concerns.  

Check out our Pricing Page for our most up to date pricing.

We started NeuConnections because we wanted to help people and we are committed to keeping our pricing as low as possible to make this life changing therapy accessible. Ketamine treatment is an investment in mental health. Allow this self-care to become an investment in your wellbeing; an investment that grows and pays dividends that last a lifetime.

The first step is an initial consultation with our patient care coordinator to answer any questions and discuss if treatment is right for you.

Visit our Begin Intake page to schedule your free consultation.

Call our office if you have more questions or visit our page with FAQ.

Additional Information on Addiction

Additional Information

Drugs and alcohol stimulate the brain’s pleasure and reward centers, releasing chemicals to make you feel good, and forget about your worries and pain. The unfortunate side effect of pushing away other underlying issues with addictive substances is the dependence the brain and body develop on those substances to maintain the state of “feeling good”.  As use and abuse continue, it is causing physical changes in your brain. In turn, developing cravings for that substance and making a person more at risk to develop mental disorders. If these cravings are unsatisfied, the body will experience withdrawal symptoms. So even if you have the intention of quitting, your brain and body will push you to ingest the substances just to keep functioning on what the new normal for your body has become. This new dependency on the substance leads to the inevitable increase in consumption and negative behaviors associated just to keep the body functioning. 

Unfortunately for many, common risk factors that contribute to SUDs run in families. Environmental factors such as stress and trauma can cause genetic changes passed down through generations and may contribute to the development of a mental or substance use disorder. Likewise, studies have found that people with mental disorders may use drugs or alcohol as self-medication to help temporarily ease the pain. As you can expect, this often makes the underlying symptoms worse, leading to the downward spiral that is so hard to escape from.

SUDs affect the way a person’s brain functions, altering their behavior, leading to one’s inability to control the use of legal and illegal drugs, alcohol, and medications. Research has found that about half of the people who experience a SUD during their lives will also experience co-occurring mental disorders and vice versa. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “co-occurring disorders include anxiety disorders, depression, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, personality disorders, and schizophrenia, among others”.
The cyclical nature of these disorders shows that the co-occurring disorders should be treated together to address as many sides of the problem as possible.

Mental health and substance use disorders are highly interrelated and ketamine infusions can target these disorders in various ways. Research has found that ketamine can effectively treats mental health disorders like depression and anxiety which often lead to addiction disorders. The anti-depression aspects of ketamine quickly relieve symptoms providing an opportunity to address the causes that bring people to self-medicate. Ketamine is a mental and physical treatment that addresses various aspects of addictive behaviors.

Ketamine impacts and balances the brain chemicals that cause swings in mood and decision making, allowing relief from the depressive aspects affecting someone. Additionally, ketamine reactivates neural pathways and stimulates neurons in the brain, alleviating the changes in the brain caused by excessive consumption of drugs and alcohol. Studies show that ketamine improves withdrawal symptoms in those receiving treatment, allowing the mind and body relief to continue the journey to be free of drug and alcohol addiction. The research shows ketamine treatment for drug and alcohol abuse has astonishing rates of positive results and that infusions are associated with more days of abstinence from alcohol than other treatment methods.

When ketamine treatment is paired with psychological therapy and integration coaching, our patients are using as many avenues as possible to address the issues plaguing them. Relief from addiction can begin to be experienced in as short as the first infusion session. However, a full treatment regimen found by researchers and approved by our medical director is required to achieve the longest-lasting results and to properly address the causes of AUDs and SUDs. Our individually tailored treatment will reactivate and reconnect neural pathways, balancing the chemicals in the brain damaged by drug and alcohol abuse, and help lead you to an improved version of yourself able to address the causes of addiction.

To schedule a free consultation with the experts at Denver’s NeuConnections to learn about ketamine for anxiety disorders, Call our Highlands Ranch, Colorado Office or click here to Begin Intake.

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