Drug and Alcohol Rehab Done Right the First Time
October 20, 2008
Hardly a day goes by without hearing about another celebrity entering Addiction treatment. Usually not for the first time. It’s not hard to find stories about relapsed addicts, repeat visitors to Drug and alcohol rehab in Utah, who are convinced they have an incurable disease. It’s this way of thinking, of treating the addiction as something incurable, that enables continued addiction.
The typical Drug Detox in Provo centers around using drugs to ease the withdrawals, effectively replacing one drug with another. Drugs like methadone are used to combat cravings. Usually over a 28 day period of rehab, the addict goes through a rapid, drug assisted withdrawal, and then is told that they will forever have to battle the urge to use.
What a hopeless outlook. It’s no wonder the success rate of Treatment centers that follow this philosophy is so low. With Rehab centers in Utah being so plentiful, and yet so unsuccessful, is there an answer that really works?
The first thing to understand about effective Addiction treatment is that drugs leave chemical residues in the body, and unless those are removed, the cravings, the addiction, will remain. Many treatments use drugs to help an addict cope with the physical side effects of withdrawal, but these drugs are just adding more chemicals and toxins to the addict’s body.
It’s these residuals that can cause problems, and lead to relapse later on. It stands to reason that the most effective Drug Detox would use a natural approach, seeking to completely rid the body of all chemical residues. In this kind of Drug and alcohol rehab in Utah, no drugs are used to ease withdrawal, and addicts are not encouraged to believe they have an incurable disease.
Instead they come to accept responsibility for their own choices, and learn to address the root causes of their addiction through a series of classes. Rehab centers in Utah using this method are seeing a 75% success rate.
The difference is, instead of feeling hopeless and helpless in the face of their addiction, addicts learn to face life’s challenges, to accept responsibility, to uncover the reasons behind old behavior patterns and learn new, healthier patterns.
What’s more, the addict knows there is a cure, that they do not have to go through their entire lives waiting for the specter of their addiction to raise its ugly head and once again take over their lives. And that 28 days thing? Instead of booting participants out at the end of a prescribed period, the feeling is, it takes as long as it takes, though most complete the program in three to six months.
The difference is, this is done at one fixed cost, no matter whether it takes three months, or six, or however long it takes. This is what rehab is supposed to be, effective, drug free, and centered on offering a life of hope and health ahead, where natural, drug-free detoxification is followed by learning to live life addiction free and where the addict isn’t abandoned at the 28 day mark and told they’ll never be whole again. This is recovery at the Narconon Treatment centers in Utah.
About the Author:
Leland Michaels, a former Department of Defense Joint Military and Civilian Affairs Drug Educationalist, has been researching and expounding on different methods of overcoming addictions, focusing on holistic approaches. The New Life Detoxification program at Narconon Vista Bay has proven a reliable and safe method for assisting people during these difficult times. For more information or to get help for yourself or someone you know, visit www.drug-rehab.org. Please include the above link with reproduction of this article.
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