Alcohol & Drug Addiction Treatment

This is a question which millions of Americans are asking themselves. “Is it worth the extra money to send my loved one to a private drug rehab?”

If you find yourself asking this same question, ask yourself also: Can you afford to make the mistake of dabbling around with programs which are free but ineffective? How important is your loved one to you? Can you afford to waste time with low success rates?

You cannot afford to waste time where drug and alcohol abuse is concerned. Find a good drug rehab with a high success rate, and get your loved one the help he/she needs right away.

Remember, addiction CAN be cured. Don’t be discouraged by government-funded programs. Drug rehab facilities are always best when they are private pay.

The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention has been providing drug and alcohol education to people throughout the US. Drug prevention is proactive and keeps a person from experimenting from drugs and alcohol where drug treatment is reactive because a person is already addicted. Much of the information on CSAP is resources, referrals, conferences, and data regarding facts and statistics on the dangers of drugs and alcohol. Something new to the prevention field is prescription drugs. Prescription drug addiction is now one of the biggest problems for drug rehab facilities. Many people don’t realize how addicting and dangerous prescription drugs like painkillers are.

With effective drug and alcohol prevention we can teach people what these drugs do and why not to take them. For a person to say not to drugs they must understand why they shouldn’t. Understanding is the first way a person will learn. Many of the drug education programs offered today use scare tactics which are ineffective. At Alcohol Drug Treatment we have found that telling people the truth and giving them the data about drugs is the most effective approach. Letting the person make the decision on whether or not to use them is up to them.

Drug Education Specialists are most effective when the have proper training, education but also personal experience with drugs and alcohol. This will make the presenter more real and the people listening will give the presenter more respect. Though drug and alcohol rehab is vital to eliminating addiction the real way to do this is by educating the truth about drugs.

There are several different types of drug rehab programs. What makes them different is the form of treatment they use. We will cover several of the most common forms for residential drug rehabs.

The most common type of drug rehab is the 12 step program. The 12 step program believes addiction is an incurable disease and that a person is powerless to their addiction. Below are the steps that are followed when entering one of these types of programs.

Step 1- We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 2- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5- Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 6- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Step 7 Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
Step 8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 9- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 11- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
Step 12- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs

Though this form of rehabilitation is effective for some, statistically it is not the most effective.
At Alcohol Drug Treatment we have found that many people that enter into a 12 step program usually have a 2-13 % success rate.

A Bio-Physical drug rehab program is a new form of treatment but has been found to be very effective. In this type of treatment the physical and mental cravings are addressed by cleansing the body of drug metabolites, toxins, and poisons. When the body metabolizes drugs and alcohol tiny particles lodge to fatty tissues and stay there for some time. These drug and alcohol metabolites can be released back into the blood stream traveling up to the brain and causing a person to crave the drug or alcohol. The sauna detoxification removes the drug and alcohol metabolites by using vitamins and minerals, light exercise, and dry-heat sauna therapy. Once this process is done the person no longer craves drugs or alcohol.

Once the person has cleansed the body of the harmful drugs and alcohol they then address the underlying issues. Most drug rehab facilities that offer this type of treatment provide cognitive counseling and life skills therapy. Teaching a person how to live life drug-free is a vital step to recovery.