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Drug Rehab - Important facts!
Twelve-step
programs:
45% of the people who attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings never
return after their first meeting.
95% never return after the first year.
Based on Alcoholics Anonymous World Services' own statistics
Alcoholics Anonymous has only a 5% retention rate.
Those who leave AA look elsewhere, such as conventional alcohol
and drug treatment for solutions, but 97% of conventional drug
rehabs and alcohol treatment centers are 12 step or AA based, thus
individuals essentially rejoin AA.
Between 80 and 90% of all addicts entering a twelve-step based
treatment program will have a relapse in the first year!
When examining drug abuse statistics, it's important to
understand that a drug is any substance taken into the body that
chemically alters one or more of its functions. All drugs are
essentially poisons and the amount taken determines the effect. All
drugs also have side effects.
People use drugs for a seemingly endless variety of reasons,
making the situation seem much more complex than it needs to be. The
one thing they all have in common is that there is some unwanted
physical or mental condition that doesn't appear to have an
immediate solution.
Somewhere along the line a drug is presented to them as the
solution to their problem and it temporarily seems to work, so they
turn to drugs again when that problem or a similar one arises in the
future. Although drugs may appear to provide relief from the
condition, they don't actually solve the problem, and because of the
impaired perceptions and side effects they eventually leave one in a
condition even worse. Add to that the increased tolerance for the
substance and the physical and mental dependence, and it's no wonder
how so many people get caught in the trap.
How our program is different:
Our program steps are entirely drug-free; that is, the program
does not use drugs or medications to solve the problems caused by
drugs, but does use nutrition and nutritional supplements as an
important component of its delivery. Thus the program is neither a
psychiatric nor medical, but a social education model of
rehabilitation.
Persons enrolling in the program must receive full medical
physicals, an M.D.'s permission to do the program and periodic
medical review as individually needed. However, clients are not
considered or treated as "patients" but as "students" who are
learning to regain control of their lives. This is an important
distinction. A student does not enroll to recover from an "illness";
he enrolls to learn something that he doesn't already know. He
addresses the disability caused by drug use with new abilities, new
skills for life.
The good news is that our International network of 120 programs
in 40 countries gets results!
Phone
1-800-893-7060 now for help with drug
addiction.
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