Detoxification services are for individuals in Northampton, MA. who need help coming off of drugs or alcohol, which can be very challenging when someone has become physically and/or psychologically reliant on drugs and alcohol. Individuals in Northampton, MA. find it difficult to quit abusing drugs due to the process they will have to endure to detox on their own. A great deal of physical and mental challenges arise when the individual begins to experience drug and/or alcohol withdrawal, symptoms of which can vary from flu like symptoms to serious depression and anxiety. In a professional detox program in Northampton, MA., detox services help the individual through this procedure as safely as feasible and provide the needed emotional assurances to get an individual through detoxification without falling back into drug use. Northampton, MA. detoxification services are only the initial stage of a comprehensive drug rehab program that will fully deal with fundamental addiction problems so that the individual can continue to be abstinent.