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Breaking free from your medication addiction
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Experience of a client who completed our medication addiction treatment. Shared on the independent review site ‘Zorgkaart Nederland’.
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Sleep and calming pills
One pill too many
Sleep and calming pills (benzodiazepines) are used to ease anxiety, tension, and insomnia. They slow down brain activity and the central nervous system, helping you feel relaxed, less anxious, and able to fall asleep more easily. Around 1.4 million people in the Netherlands take them almost daily.
Do they help you get through the day when you feel stressed or uncertain? Or can you truly not sleep without a pill? Maybe you feel you can’t manage without them—but also notice how they dull your emotions and leave you feeling flat.
Facts about addiction & addiction care
When are you addicted?
Is it just a bad habit… or something more…?
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Addicted to sleeping pills
After just two weeks of daily use, tolerance can develop. You need more and more to achieve the same effect.
“Really happy and grateful for this group of people. After trying several other treatments at different clinics, Kick has been a breath of fresh air. Working towards a solution with a well-thought-out and realistic recovery plan. I tip my hat!“
Experience of a client who completed an addiction treatment (Amsterdam) with us. Shared on the independent review site ‘Zorgkaart Nederland’.
Risks
Sleep and calming pills shouldn’t be used for more than a few weeks. Over time, they become less effective. You need higher doses to get the same effect, which increases the risk of addiction.
Negative effects of sleep and calming pills include:
- Feeling tired, sleepy, or sluggish during the day. A hangover-like sensation.
- Difficulty concentrating, physical weakness, and a higher risk of accidents.
- Weight gain.
- Reduced enjoyment of music, sex, and other pleasurable activities.
- Memory becomes less reliable.
- You numb yourself instead of addressing the problems. You don’t learn healthy ways to cope with stress and challenges.
- Combining them with alcohol can be dangerous.
- Withdrawal symptoms: nausea, trembling, sweating, headache, insomnia, anxiety, restlessness, sensitivity to stimuli, low mood.
Medication addiction
treatment approach for the busy man or woman
We developed a treatment approach for addiction care in Amsterdam and Utrecht that fits the busy man or woman struggling with unhealthy habits and addiction. We see addiction as a normal process that got out of hand. Something that once worked for you—pleasure, comfort, distraction, confidence—turns against you.
We help you get moving in a way that works for you.
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Phone
9.00 – 17.00
Amsterdam & Utrecht: 020 – 737 0887
Groningen: 085 – 0477 234
Address
AMSTERDAM
Cornelis Krusemanstraat 75b
1075 NJ Amsterdam
UTRECHT
Maliesingel 55
3581 BR Utrecht
GRONINGEN
Kraneweg 87
9718 JL Groningen