Gladstones Clinic is a leading UK-based provider of safe, effective, and affordable cocaine rehab services within a 2.5-hour drive from London. Located in the beautiful Cotswolds, our residential cocaine rehab programme covers every aspect of recovery, from diagnosis to aftercare, ensuring that our clients receive the support and tools they need at every step of the journey to recovery.
With over two decades of experience dealing with cocaine addiction, we understand the particular nuances and complications this drug presents. Its intense but short-lived effects lead to frequent use and an immense potential for abuse, quickly escalating from occasional to habitual use. Left untreated, high-functioning individuals who can afford to support their addiction face increased risks of severe physical, psychological, and cognitive harm.
If you or someone you know is struggling with cocaine addiction, contact Gladstones Clinic for an obligation-free discussion of our clinic and treatment options. Our tried and tested integrated approach to rehab features a medically supervised detox, modern treatments and therapies used in clinics around the world, and holistic therapies proven to enhance and complement recovery.
Gladstones Clinic’s four-week residential substance abuse treatment programmes are:
Addiction rehab is more than detox and counselling, and Gladstones Clinic, as a comprehensive service provider, offers a wide range of supplementary and specialist rehab services. These include medically supervised detoxification, teenage rehab, therapy, counselling, family support, relapse prevention, and a wide range of secondary and tertiary recovery services.
The most effective cocaine rehab strategies integrate therapies based on the patient's specific needs. We design personalised treatment schedules that integrate modern and evidence-based therapies with proven alternative practices. This allows us to target the root causes of addiction while developing resilience and encouraging personal growth during the recovery journey.
At Gladstones, we believe in holistic health — the belief that real health encompasses our physical, psychological, emotional, and social selves. Our cocaine rehab programme places an emphasis on developing all areas critical to living a happy, productive, and confident life. Our exceptional aftercare programme ensures that Gladstones patients enjoy these benefits long after residential treatment.
Although each patient’s road to recovery is unique, residential cocaine rehab can be broken down into four distinct phases.
An addiction assessment allows the Gladstones addiction treatment team to understand your relationship with cocaine and develop your unique treatment schedule based on factors such as length and frequency of abuse, drugs taken alongside cocaine, and other factors that could influence treatment. It also allows us to diagnose co-occurring mental health disorders, not uncommon among substance abuse patients.
Gladstones Clinic does not require a referral from a physician to start treatment for cocaine abuse disorder. Our team includes qualified physicians and addiction experts who will interview you to get a complete picture of your addiction and health before making a treatment diagnosis.
Detox is a much-feared but essential first step towards recovery for all forms of substance abuse. Cocaine detox typically lasts between 5 and 8 days, with patients often experiencing withdrawal symptoms that include physical and emotional discomfort, anxiety, depression-like symptoms, and more. A medically supervised detox aims to mitigate these symptoms, allowing our patients to transition to primary care smoothly and with minimal discomfort.
Depending on the intensity of the addiction and several personal factors, cocaine withdrawal symptoms can set in within a few hours of the last use. This early withdrawal phase, the ‘crash’, is characterised by strong cravings, irritability, and fatigue. As withdrawal progresses, patients often experience sleep disturbances, vivid dreams, emotional instability, and persistent feelings of anxiety. While almost all cocaine rehab patients go through these symptoms at some level of intensity, some may experience ongoing mood swings and persistent cravings for several months as the brain readjusts to a drug-free life.
Residential cocaine rehab patients typically spend their first 5 to 8 days of rehab in detox, and detox is over once the patient is stable enough to enter primary care. We understand that individual factors play a role in how long detox lasts, and depending on how each patient is progressing, might slightly advance or delay moving into primary care. Patients with co-occurring mental health disorders, poor physical health, or extreme addiction profiles might be in detox for longer. It’s rare for physical withdrawal symptoms (headaches, fatigue, sleep disturbances, etc.) to last for more than 10 days.
There aren’t any medications specifically indicated to treat cocaine withdrawal symptoms; however, physicians might prescribe certain medications to target specific withdrawal symptoms. This could be benzodiazepines for severe sleep disturbances and anxiety, antipsychotics for drug-induced psychosis, or antidepressants. It should be noted that many of these medicines are regulated substances due to their own potential for abuse.
Primary care includes all therapies, counselling, and practices aimed at helping to uncover and address the root causes of addiction, understand your stressors and triggers, and develop personalised and healthy coping mechanisms to maintain sobriety. Primary care for cocaine abuse is often a combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), group therapies, other one-on-one therapies, and proven alternative treatments and techniques that assist in substance abuse recovery.
Substance abuse recovery is deeply personal, and what works for one person isn’t guaranteed to work for the next. Despite this, we’ve seen that patients overwhelmingly respond positively to a mix of treatment modalities that include:
CBT allows patients to critically evaluate their thoughts to identify harmful and negative patterns that lead to personally destructive behaviours. It also teaches patients how to identify stressors that trigger cravings, develop coping strategies to avoid and manage triggers, and prevent relapse. CBT focuses on practical and goal-oriented techniques and principles.
A large number of patients that we treat for substance abuse also suffer from mental health disorders, including anxiety and depression. In these cases, DBT is especially beneficial because it teaches patients how to manage intense emotions, regulate their emotional responses to stress and triggers, and further develop coping mechanisms that take mental health into consideration.
Group therapy is an often underappreciated component of substance abuse recovery. Beyond community and support, it offers participants the chance to reflect on their own lives, remove the stigma surrounding substance abuse, and learn from others experiences. We cannot overstate the value that group support and acceptance add to recovery.
Cocaine abuse harms not only the user, but also those close to them. We rely heavily on family therapy to help families overcome the trauma of dealing with addiction in the family, rebuild love and trust when it’s been lost due to broken promises, and educate families on how to create happy and healthy environments at home that facilitate recovery.
Alongside these clinical therapies, we also provide alternative therapies that have been proven to promote mindfulness, introspection, blood flow, and healing. These include:
Studies have proven that continued access to treatment, counselling, and other forms of therapy is the biggest indicator of whether an attempt at sobriety will achieve long-term success. Recognising this importance, Gladstones Clinic provides free lifetime access to the Gladstones community and other recovery resources. We regularly meet in person and online to support each other’s journeys and celebrate our successes.
Secondary care is a direct continuation of primary care, with the only difference being that the patients are no longer staying at our residential clinic. Although the majority of rehab patients make significant progress over 4 weeks and return home confident that they’ll be able to maintain sobriety, others prefer the comfort of continued support and therapy.
We provide secondary care services at our sister clinics in London and Bristol, as well as at our specialist day care clinic in Cornwall. Patients may choose to enrol in a regularly scheduled programme, an intensive all-day programme, or an evening programme if returning to normal work and responsibilities.
The Gladstones aftercare programme for drug and alcohol addiction is second to none, and a large number of our patients choose to remain active in our aftercare programme and communities long after treatment. Our aftercare programme guarantees lifelong access to essential recovery resources and a place in a community that cares.
Our team is on standby to help you beat cocaine addiction and return to a life lived with confidence and free from substance abuse.
