Giving Thanks for Successful Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation

November 23, 2008 on 3:58 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

With Thanksgiving approaching this week, I am reminded of how successful drug and alcohol rehabs have personally touched my life and many others that I know.  Each year the Holiday Season can be a very difficult time emotionally for people – especially individuals and families struggling with addiction.

It was almost 10 years ago that I had my first Thanksgiving as an adult without alcohol or other drugs in my life and I was able to fully enjoy the company of my family, thanks to my successful and permanent recovery after having gone to an effective long-term drug rehab program.  Since that time I have had the eye-opening experience of working with thousands of families across the country and helping them find solutions for addiction treatment that work.

Unfortunately many families think that “this may be the year” where their loved one who is battling alcohol or drug abuse will make it on their own, but in most cases the best thing that can be done for them during the Holidays is to get them into a program that can really help – one that focuses on results and doesn’t just fill them with hopeless falsehoods about addiction.

Believe it or not, there are effective solutions for overcoming addiction permanently.  We can help you find successful detox programs and rehab centers that work.

Contact us today for more information about finding rehabilitation help for yourself or a loved one.  Call 1-877-421-9659 and find something to be thankful for this week.

VP-Elect Pushes Disease Theory of Addiction on Americans

November 6, 2008 on 3:41 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Believe it or not, this is not a partisan commentary.  The fact is that Democrats are typically more supportive of drug rehab while Republicans have been more prone to incarcerate non-violent drug offenders.  Somewhere in the middle there is a solution, but it hasn’t been fully recognized yet.

Last year Senator Joseph Biden (D) of Delaware introduced a bill to change the National Institute on Drug Abuse to the National Institute on Diseases of Addiction. This was a mis-informed effort to force theory and not actual science onto the American public.  With more than 20 million people in our country struggling to overcome addiction, this would include roughly 8% of the population to be suddently classified as having an incurable brain disease, which is simply not true.

Now that Senator Biden will be occupying the post of Vice President come January, will he continue with this rediculous and demoralizing label?  As a former addict myself, this would be an attempt to retroactively pigeonhole me into something that doesn’t even come close to describing me.  How democratic or presidential is that?

The fact remains that addiction has never been conclusively proven to be a neurological disorder, a genetic disorder or any other type of disease.  On the flip side, very normal people like me have completely overcome addiction either with or without treatment and have had no further symptoms or relapses and not a single test could conclude that we are currently or ever have been afflicted with that “disease”.

I do hope that the VP-Elect will continue to support addiction treatment and prevention practices, however he must take into account the NEW FACE of RECOVERY – those who have permanently put substance abuse behind them forever and include this fact in his legislative activities.

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