Substance Use Support.
No one chooses addiction or substance dependency. Difficulties with substance use are not a choice or a personal failure. They are a neurological condition that affects how we think, feel and behave.
The beginning of using substances often come from a place of trying to stop, lessen or control discomfort - be it emotional, physical, or both. The nature of our brains and how substances affect them creates a process that can very much alter our needs and experiences in the world.
Here at Psych Connect, we use the knowledge of how brains work and what substances do to them, in concert with the realities of pain and distress from our physical and emotional experiences to guide interventions to help with substance use.
If you or a loved one are struggling with substance use, know that help is here. Connect with Psych Connect. We are here to help.
Substance Use After Brain Injury
Help is here.
After a brain injury, it is possible to develop a substance use problem. Some brain injury survivors who never had concerns about substance use before their injury find themselves struggling with substances after.
Sometimes this happens because of pain medication used to help in the short term after the injury. Sometimes alcochol may begin to be used more and more as self-medicating to ease pain or social discomfort. There are many possible roads to difficulty with substances after a brain injury, and brains after an injury are also more vulnerable to difficulty managing substances.
This reality led clinical neuropsychologists in Ontario to get together to find a way to support and help brain injury surovirs with substance use. This intervention, Substance Use in Brain Injury (SUBI) is aresearch backed therapy to help reduce the use, misuse, abuse, dependency and addictions to substances that may be present in brain injury survivors.
Know that help is here. Connect with Psych Connect for SUBI. You can click below to learn more, book in for a free consultation call or schedule a session today.
