Alcohol & Drug Addiction Treatment

At the rate we’re going in America, drug rehab centers will never go out of business. If it seems to you that we have at all put a dent in the illicit drug problem then your hopes will be dampened by the fact that prescription drug abuse has now reared its ugly head as an even bigger issue.

Back in the day, you perhaps noticed all your Grandmother’s medications would go missing when you brought certain friends over. Nowadays, doctors irresponsibly misdiagnose young children and adults and prescribe highly addictive medications which patients become dependent on. And of course there’s the crafty criminal and drug addict who knows how to abuse the system; he knows what to say to be diagnosed as “bi-polar,” so he can get some pills to take and to sell to his friends. In schools and on the streets, youth are confronted with both illicit and prescription drugs. Both highly addictive and both potentially deadly.

It is time for a nation-wide prevention campaign. While I whole-heartedly support effective treatment solutions (and have been blessed to have found the right program for both my husband and my brother), it is time for a national prevention campaign. If the American government wants to wage a REAL war on drugs, we need to start young by giving kids the truth about drugs.

Current prevention campaigns in schools are teaching children that drug abuse is inevitable along with “safe” methods to use drugs. This apathetic approach to educating children simply agrees with society’s moral decline and does nothing to PREVENT further drug abuse. A recent prevention campaign that a lot of programs that offered a non 12 step rehab study showed that children, when given the truth about drugs, decided not to use drugs and stayed off drugs up to two years after being indoctrinated.

Today’s children are tomorrow’s civilization. It’s time we look at what kind of world we are leaving behind.

There is a little-known form of medicine called Orthomolecular* Medicine which deals with rebalancing the body’s natural chemistry through nutritional protocol. This is extremely important in treating drug and alcohol addiction as the body of the addicted individual has been robbed of its organic abilities to produce substances which themselves promote healing and wellness. This form of medicine is highly pertinent to the subject of drug and alcohol abuse recovery.

If you are on the hunt for the right drug rehab program, steer away from programs which do not touch upon addiction recovery using natural methods. Pharmaceutical quick-fixes are often chosen as a way out, but they can lead to multiple addictions instead of sobriety. Substance abuse occurs in an attempt to solve a problem. This problem is not solved through masking it with further anesthetizing drugs. Just as someone with scurvy would not be cured with Atavan or Prozac, drug addiction is not cured with prescription medications. Currently, there are 33 million people in the United States alone addicted to drugs or alcohol. Surely not every drug rehab facility is the same. When researching recovery programs, look for those which individually address physical health, emotional health and life skills. These are the foundation for permanent recovery and healing.