Drug Addiction
Drug
addiction has been called, and deservedly so, the plague of the modern world.
There is hardly a family in the world that hasn’t been impacted by drug
addiction in one form or another. Current thinking has not been successful in curbing this plague let alone solving it.
Traditional
treatment options have simply failed to deliver on any significant level.
For over 40 years now Narconon has been delivering a non-traditional approach to healing addiction with proven, consistent, long-term results. Narconon is a long-term and drug free approach that actually empowers the individual to not only cease use and end cravings, but delivers into his hands the skills and abilities to move forward and face life’s challenges without resorting to drug or alcohol use out of desperation.
A drug free productive lifetime is our specialty!
Drug Rehab Information By State
Drug side effects are becoming more and more of an issue for
addiction professionals.
This is especially true in light of the epidemic rise in the
abuse of and
addiction to prescription painkillers, anti-depressants, and anti-psychotics. These often have life threatening side effects when taken as prescribed, let alone at abusive or addictive levels. More and more individuals seeking drug
treatment for addiction to some sort of street drug are also reporting abusive and addictive use of
prescription drugs at the same time.
This is an explosive and potentially deadly combination.
In this culture, at this time, one should always suspect more substances are being used than what is being reported.
A condition characterized
by repeated compulsive seeking and using of drugs, alcohol or other similar substances despite adverse social, mental, and physical consequences is a definition that can apply to substance
abuse as well as substance addiction. When
addiction sets in however it is usually accompanied by psychological and physical dependence where the substance is craved just to feel somewhat normal.
Withdrawal symptoms, physical and mental usually appear to a greater or lesser degree when the substance is rapidly decreased or terminated.
Substance
abuse has moved into
addiction when the substance use controls the individual rather than the individual controlling the usage.
As you search for a
treatment center for yourself or loved one look for actual tangible results, not just ‘x’ amount of days spent there with little or no results.
Also look for all the services you feel will be needed.
There is much more to drug
rehabilitation than a couple of weeks spent without using!
Are medical and nutritional needs being met?
Is there a full
detoxification of the body available or is it just withdrawal? Are the issues of cravings, quilt, and depression being fully confronted and resolved? Is legal assistance available if needed? Are services available to help repair and reestablish relationships and careers? Are services available to the families of the addict as well to help them better understand and deal with the process of rehabilitation? After all,
addiction affects more than the addict. Are skills and abilities being learned to assist the individual in achieving a drug free and productive life that lasts for a lifetime? With the highest long term success rate in the industry Narconon Arrowhead can and does proudly answer yes to all of the above and many more.
Counseling is a generally misunderstood word.
It is often interpreted as some evaluating for another and telling them what to think or do. Someone else’s opinion or evaluation is simply that, and gives no certainty of anything to the recipient.
This is a very limited view of the concept and it has very limited workability as well.
Counseling ideally should involve getting the individual to confront and communicate with and about the situations in life that they feel they have no control, or reduced control over.
Counseling should offer tools and life skills that the individual can use for themselves and observe for themselves whether they work.
More importantly, do they work for the individual himself?
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