Specialized methamphetamine rehabilitation focusing on cognitive repair, depression treatment, and behavioral change. 60-90 day programs recommended for lasting recovery.
Methamphetamine causes significant brain damage requiring extended treatment for cognitive repair and behavioral change. Our Las Vegas meth rehab program provides 60-90 days of intensive therapy, psychiatric care, and life skills development.
Methamphetamine is one of the most destructive drugs available. Unlike other substances that primarily affect brain chemistry temporarily, meth causes actual structural damage to the brain—particularly the dopamine system. This isn't just about withdrawal or cravings; it's about brain injury that requires months or years to heal. After detox stabilizes you physically, comprehensive rehabilitation must address the cognitive deficits, psychiatric disorders, behavioral patterns, and life destruction that meth addiction creates. Recovery from meth isn't just about staying clean—it's about rebuilding your brain, your mind, and your entire life.
Meth doesn't just flood your brain with dopamine—it's directly toxic to dopamine-producing neurons. Brain imaging studies show that chronic meth users have significantly reduced dopamine receptors and damaged nerve terminals that can take 12-18 months to partially recover. This means that for months after quitting, you'll struggle with severe anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure), depression, cognitive impairment, and cravings. This is why meth has one of the highest relapse rates of any drug—your damaged brain screams for the one thing that made you feel normal.
Note: Some cognitive deficits may be permanent with heavy long-term use
Critical point: This healing only happens if you stay clean. Every relapse resets the clock and causes additional damage. This is why residential treatment is so important—it gives your brain protected time to heal without the possibility of relapse during the most vulnerable months.
Meth users often struggle with memory, attention, impulse control, and emotional regulation even after stopping use. These aren't character flaws—they're brain injuries that require specific rehabilitation interventions.
Meth damages the hippocampus, making it hard to form new memories or recall recent information. You might forget conversations, appointments, or what you just read.
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Damage to prefrontal cortex causes ADHD-like symptoms—inability to focus, easily distracted, difficulty completing tasks, poor organization.
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Prefrontal damage reduces ability to delay gratification, resist urges, or think through consequences. This makes relapse extremely likely.
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Meth doesn't just damage cognitive function—it frequently causes severe psychiatric disorders that persist long after stopping use. These conditions require specialized dual diagnosis treatment.
The dopamine depletion after stopping meth causes severe depression that can last 6-18 months. This isn't temporary sadness—it's crushing anhedonia where nothing brings pleasure, energy is non-existent, and suicide risk is extremely high.
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Chronic meth use can cause paranoid delusions, hallucinations (seeing "shadow people"), and disorganized thinking that can persist for months after stopping. 10-15% develop permanent psychotic disorder.
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Meth causes hyperarousal of the nervous system. Even after stopping, many users have persistent panic attacks, social anxiety, and hypervigilance that make normal life impossible.
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After years of meth-induced insomnia, users often can't sleep normally for months. Sleep deprivation worsens all other symptoms and massively increases relapse risk.
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The gold-standard treatment for stimulant use disorder. CBT helps identify triggers, develop coping strategies, challenge irrational thoughts, and build skills to maintain abstinence long-term.
Reward-based treatment proven highly effective for meth addiction. Patients receive tangible rewards for negative drug tests and treatment participation, retraining the brain's reward system.
Medications for depression, anxiety, sleep, psychosis, and cognitive enhancement. Regular psychiatric monitoring ensures medications are working and adjusted as recovery progresses.
Specialized exercises to improve memory, attention, problem-solving, and executive function. Like physical therapy for your brain—essential for recovering from meth-induced damage.
Daily group sessions provide accountability, reduce isolation, and let you learn from others in recovery. Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) meetings incorporated into treatment.
Meth recovery requires long-term support. We connect you with outpatient therapy, sober living, vocational training, and ongoing psychiatric care for 12-24 months post-treatment.
Meth causes such severe brain damage that 30-day programs rarely produce lasting recovery. The brain needs months of protected healing time before you can handle triggers and stress without relapse.
Brain still in early healing. Cravings intense. Cognitive function poor. Depression peaks. Relapse rate: 80-90% within 6 months.
Brain healing begins. Mood stabilizes. Basic skills learned. Still vulnerable. Relapse rate: 60-70% within 6 months.
Significant brain recovery. Skills solidified. Confidence built. Best outcomes. Relapse rate: 40-50% within 6 months.
Research shows: Every additional 30 days in residential treatment reduces relapse risk by approximately 15%. For meth addiction specifically, 90-120 days is the clinical recommendation. This isn't about profits—it's about brain biology. Shortcuts don't work with methamphetamine.
Your brain can heal from methamphetamine damage, but only with extended treatment in a protected environment. Our 90-day Las Vegas meth rehab program combines cognitive rehabilitation, psychiatric care, behavioral therapy, and long-term aftercare planning for the best chance at lasting recovery.
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