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Drug and Alcohol Recovery Month

September 13, 2008 on 7:01 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Every year addiction treatment professionals and advocates honor and celebrate National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month in September.  This is supposed to be an observance for the successful actions done by drug rehab programs and the accomplishments of those in recovery.

For the most part it is a very positive and worthwhile observance with events held all across the country throughout the month.  The only problem is that sometimes the messages given aren’t totally correct.

For example, addiction is portrayed as an incurable disease – and it very plainly is neither incurable nor a disease.  Second of all, the message sometimes talks about being “in recovery” forever and taking it one day at a time.  However, there is the New Face of Recovery that is a movement showing and proving that people can permanently end addiction and move on with their lives instead of continually focusing on the past. 

The disease theory and lifetime recovery process are often forwarded by people and organizations that think addicts should be given some type of replacment drug or medication to treat the symptoms.  The New Face of Recovery includes drug-free rehabilitation programs throughout the country that know and prove that people just need the right tools and education to apply them to living a life without substance abuse.

Stay tuned in the coming months and years to this New Face of Recovery movement because the surge is strong for the message of a permanent end to addiction through self empowerment.