A personalised programme will be devised to meet each individual's needs.

Misuse of alcohol and other substances, from mild over-indulgence to frank addiction, has important health implications. Physical health is only a small part of the equation but poor health, mental and/or physical, affects work, home and leisure behaviour. It is deterioration in work performance or family relationships which often prompts people to seek help and advice.

Alcoholism is a progressive illness.  In the UK about 2 in 100 women, and about 7 in 100 men, are alcohol dependent. Identifying and admitting to an alcohol problem is often the most difficult step in treatment.   It is only problem drinkers themselves who can determine whether or not they are in fact alcoholics and want to turn their lives around.

How Breakspear Hospital can help

Our programme starts with a consultation with one of our specialist doctors.  He or she will perform a physical assessment, take a full medical history and recommend investigations as appropriate.  This will include an estimation of liver function and nutritional state. (See Haematology & Biochemistry Profile for a description of the commonly used marker for excessive alcohol consumption or liver diseases, which is the gamma glutamyl transferase serum measurement.) Many patients become nutritionally deficient when alcohol is consumed in excess.

Where appropriate, psychological or psychiatric assessment is undertaken.  Stress management and counselling can be arranged with associated professionals.

For over two decades, Breakspear Hospital has specialised in allergy and environmental medicine and this has made us a world leader in detoxification regimes and allergy/sensitivity low-dose immunotherapy programmes.

We have a well-established detoxification regime using a combination of vitamin therapy, exercise therapy, saunas and Iratherm® whole-body hyperthermia treatment.  We have full medical facilities to minimise withdrawal reactions and we will advise on specific diets for individual patients.

Our specialised unit for allergy and sensitivity using low-dose immunotherapy (also known as provocation/neutralisation technique) is of particular help in the treatment of addiction.  Sensitivity to the addictive substance is often part cause of the addiction. Thus, in many patients, we can minimise and abolish the craving for alcohol using sublingual drop treatment.

A personalised programme will be devised to meet each individual’s needs.

We can help with the physical, emotional and spiritual consequences of alcoholism and other addictions in our day hospital facilities. Breakspear Hospital has the facilities to provide services for people of all ages and for the disabled. 

For a general price list, see Patient Information.

Print out your own copy of our greyscale pdf format Rehabilitation Programme booklet. Or contact Reception by emailing: info@breakspearmedical.com or telephoning 01442 261 333 to ask directly to be snailed mailed a copy of the Rehabilitation Programme booklet.