Drug rehab centers are about rehabilitation, returning a person back to proper function. While some drug abusers can accomplish a full rehabilitation in 30 days, many addictions and life disorders don’t resolve in 30 days. Simply rehab is not completed in the allotted frame of time for recovery. Relapse becomes inevitable, returning a person back to the $700 to $1,000 / day rehab center, to only be released early and relapse or revert back to drug use.

What’s happening here?

Relapse often fails because the rehab program was not properly fitted to the person’s life or drug or alcohol abuse. A TC isn’t rehab. People given a proper and full rehab program would achieve rehabilitation during the course of a rehab program. TC would only be a transition phase out of rehab.

A learning model of rehabilitation would be better fitted for a person with life issues which were not resolving in the conventional 30 day rehab programs. While many executives, business people and successful individuals want to get back to their lives, urgency to return does not mean a rehab program should be shortened for time or work saving purposes.

A full rehab program would help the person come to terms with all aspects of the causes of drug / alcohol abuse, not just the consequences. The learning model of rehab focuses on the causes of addiction and helps a person address those life issues which are ruining their lives. Yes these can be handled. But life is not handled by ignoring or avoiding it.

Rehab is a place where people get their own determinism back to live life on their own terms and taking on their due responsibility for themselves, family, society and the consequences of their behavior on others. That’s a tall order, yet that’s what rehab should be doing.

Are you or a loved one going to accomplish that in 30 days?

Contact Narconon for a drug / alcohol rehab program which rehabilitates people fully without justifying or making excuses.

Emotional Ups and Downs and Drug Use

Emotional changes are normal but, drugs and alcohol hijack these emotions and move one up and down in life. Learning exactly what these emotions are and how to improve ones spirit without drugs is covered.

also discussed are,

Goals

Setting goals is very important to succeed at all. How does goal achievement relate to ones emotional state and health? How can one stay high toned by driving toward goals?

NARCONON Vancouver Society is sponsoring weekly support talks throughout your community! Free of charge

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Drug and alcohol rehabilitation center services in Vancouver, BC and throughout British Columbia are in demand by those looking for recovery.

Alcoholism or drug addiction ruins not only the substance abuser, but the entire family as well.

A great effort has been made by public and private residential programs in Vancouver and BC to help people recover. Numerous programs are available to those who want to take control of their lives again and overcome their disability.

Substance abuse is regarded as a ‘disease’ by some who wish to treat it medically. While the ‘disease’ concept has been highly promoted by the psychiatric / pharmaceutical industry, this principal has not advanced rehabilitation, unfortunately.

Rehab is being replaced with words like ‘treatment’ and ‘ongoing care’ in an effort to fit drinking or drugging compulsively into a brain disorder; essentially saying:

‘bad behavior’ = ‘brain / chemical malfunction’. The results are interesting.

British Columbia has the greatest drug problem per capita in Canada. The attitude in BC is that drug / alcohol abuse is a right or minimally not in one’s own control and therefore something one is not responsible for; the drugs / alcohol made them do it, or there is something wrong with them, therefore they can’t be accountable.

You may agree or disagree with the ‘addiction is a disease’ belief. My only interest in beliefs or philosophies of recovery is in their workability. Is a crack abuser continuing to smoke up after a treatment program? Is someone on methadone healthier and no longer contributing to the drug trade?

Methadone is the approved and promoted medical treatment for heroin or opiate abuse. The number one drug of choice of methadone patients is crack cocaine. The death rate to disease of those who smoke crack while taking methadone skyrockets past those who are clean. Yet, their deaths are not attributed to drug abuse, but instead to cancer, HIV, AIDS, Hep C, diabetes, etc.

While interpreting statistics favorably to one’s cause is expected, the medical community could be a little less self-serving when it comes to treatment outcome research.

By Tibor A. Palatinus

Rehab Consultant and Prevention Specialist