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Drug rehab centers that work!
If you or someone you care for is suffering from meth addiction,
your best chance to get back your life or to save the life of your friend or
loved one is an effective drug rehab program.
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When looking for a meth rehab treatment center, it is
important to remember that results are what matter most. Anything less
than a cure translates into continued addiction, personal and family pain and,
ultimately death or prison.
Meth Drug Rehab Centers offers free rehab referrals so you can find a drug
rehabilitation center that will handle this problem completely so that you or
your loved one can lead normal, healthy, happy and productive lives.
DRUG REHAB PROGRAMS
We specialize in helping people find rehabilitation centers that have
the highest documented successful outcomes.
Drug Rehab Programs Using the 12-Step Approach
About 75% of the rehab centers in the US and Canada use the 12-Step Recovery Model.
These are rehab centers that use the clinical methods of Alcoholics Anonymous,
Cocaine Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Two Alcoholics who wanted to find a
way to stay sober by sharing their experiences with another alcoholic developed
the 12-Step model in 1934. The principles of the 12-Steps were codified
into a book or manual so that others could start support groups using spiritual
principles to help them find happiness without the use of alcohol. They
never intended for these methods to be used in a treatment facility, in fact,
strict advocates of the 12-Step approach to recovery have disapproved of residential
treatment from its inception, but in light of insurance and government funding in
the 1970’s, many centers adopted this method as their major clinical focus.
It was available, inexpensive to operate and had the potential to be very
profitable for the owners of these centers. No one really questioned their
existence until a generation of graduates has proven that they are very ineffectual.
The 12-Step approach states that alcoholism is a chronic and progressive
disease, which means that you have it all of your life and, even if you quit
using, the morbidity of the “disease” continues to progress and
your addiction gets worse in spite of your years of sobriety.
When someone enters a 12-Step program, they are told that they have this
disease and that they are powerless over alcohol and other drugs. By
the time that these rehab centers started using these methods, drugs were a
bigger problem than alcohol, so the official text on the 12-Step method was
changed to include drugs as well as alcohol. In time, many of these
programs have added sex, gambling, eating and co-dependency disorders to alcohol
and other drugs, claiming that all of these disorders are “diseases”
and that the original 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous treats them all.
Because of the immediate funding available for treatment and because of the
tremendous need for some type of help for those with these problems, these centers
multiplied rapidly until the insurance companies began to question the efficacy
of this approach since the success of these programs equaled the success of
those persons that got well on their own; about 5-8% success. The 12-Step
treatment community then changed the definition of “disease” into
a “disease of relapse”, meaning that many episodes of treatment
may be needed to keep a person in recovery. Note that they do not speak
about a cure, but only that one is in remission or in recovery from their disease.
Almost all of the State funded facilities operate on the 12-Step approach,
but they also have the disadvantage of not being in control of those that
they might not want to admit into treatment, which causes these programs to
have the least success of any other types of treatment, with many being less
than 5% success.
One must also consider the impact of telling someone that they have an
incurable disease after they have brutalized themselves with alcohol and other
drugs and are now finally beginning to confront their problem and seek help.
Needless to say, this is hardly the message that inspires hope and a willingness
to go through the consequences of their withdrawals and other emotional repair
needed to recover from months and/or years of abuse. This, in itself, is
a major factor in building denial and resistance to seeking help. It has been
found that many people continue their destructive use and abuse because they have
been told that they have an incurable disease and they begin to feel that there
isn’t any help that really works and that there is little hope that they will
ever be free of addiction.
Everyone that uses alcohol and other drugs does so to handle some physical,
emotional or social pain and since these drugs temporarily relieved them of these
problems, they soon become addicted.
12-Step programs do not remove the effect of the drugs from the body to ease the
physical addiction and they are very ineffective at treating the emotional
problems that may have been medicated through the use of alcohol and other
drugs. Therefore, many 12-Step programs violate the major principle
of the original program by prescribing psychotropic medications to “
handle” the original problem, which also feeds into the idea that chemicals
are an answer to one’s pain which is an obvious outpoint when treating
addiction. If given the choice of medicating their pain with pharmaceuticals
or street drugs, most addicts will choose the latter, and so it is obvious, with a
little thought, that these programs are not best choice when looking for effective
treatment. The only reason for their popularity, which is waning, is the
fact that there are many centers using this approach and they are able to offer
treatment in a few number of days and for less cost than effective programs, but
remember, in matter of human potential, compromising for something where one out
of twenty find success is a gamble leading to inevitable disappointment.
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