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Drug Rehabs & Treatment Centers with High Success

Drug Rehabs & Treatment Centers with High Success If you scour the internet for drug rehabs and other types of addiction & alcoholism treatment centers you'll notice countless places bragging about their enormously high success rates. You might see numbers as high as 70, 80 or even 90%. The million dollar question is, what is their definition of success, and how was it measured, and by what scientific rigor? Be wary of claims of treatment centers with high success. Does a high...
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“High Success Rate” in Drug Rehab-Treatment

"High Success Rate" in Drug Rehab-Treatment If you or someone you know happens to be searching for a drug rehab or treatment center online that focuses on addiction and/or alcoholism recovery services, you may notice many facilities boast a high success rate that is better than the rest. The concern is that, unlike with many other medical issues, in the world of addiction and alcoholism recovery, success is measured on a multitude of levels and therefore, has many different interpretations. Some treatment centers' idea...
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Benefits of Holistic Drug Rehab

Benefits of Holistic Drug Rehab Over recent years there has been a growing popularity in drug rehabs and addiction treatment centers offering holistic recovery services for their patients in recovery from alcoholism, codependency, smoking cessation, drug addiction, or other forms of addiction such as gambling and food addiction. It is very common to see such facilities in prominent regions like Malibu, Orange County and Los Angeles in California, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, and across North America and Europe. A very common question among...
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#1 Executive Private Drug Rehab

#1 Executive Private Drug Rehab Executive Private Drug Rehab Doesn't Have To Cost So Much! Society has become accustomed to hearing about luxury, high-cost drug rehab centers on the news and reading about them in the tabloids. It is almost daily that yet another Hollywood actor or actress, professional athlete or political figure is being court ordered to check into yet another of the nation's posh beachfront treatment centers costing over a hundred thousand dollars for a 60 to 90 day stay. No wonder...
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Is There a Cure for Alcoholism & Addiction?

Is There a Cure for Alcoholism & Addiction? Since drug addiction & alcoholism first reared their ugly heads, many have searched high and low for possible cures to these horrible, family-shattering, job-ending, freedom-stealing maladies. Today, people can search online or even see tv commercials of treatment centers and recovery services advertising their version of "The Cure" to drug addiction and/or alcoholism. The truth of the matter is that the vast majority of experienced, licensed treatment professionals agree that no "cure" exists for addiction...
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How to Avoid Relapse After Treatment

How to Avoid Relapse After Treatment Honesty, Open-mindedness and Willingness are Indispensable Most drug rehabs and addiction & alcoholism treatment centers provide a standard level of care for a primary initial time period and then offer additional step-down programs that enable the client to gradually reintegrate themselves into the rigors of daily life while outside the protective bubble of treatment. During this time, the client would normally have the opportunity to essentially test out some of the many relapse prevention techniques he...
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California Affordable Addiction Treatment

California Affordable Addiction Treatment Affordable Alcoholism Treatment Recovery Program We are excited to share our tremendous success stories, but there are so many, and of course respecting confidentiality is of paramount importance to us. So as a representative illustration of the daily experience of healing and positive life change so often seen at Serenity Vista, let us share a general experience relating to many of our past clients. This is a testimonial of California addiction treatment that changes lives. We will call her...
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To Quit or Not to Quit: Is There Even a Question?

To Quit or Not to Quit: Is There Even a Question? Quitting Smoking: Why You Haven't; Why You Should Every smoker in the world has a reason that they haven’t quit smoking. To quit or not to quit is a problem most users of tobacco face at some point, coming to realize that they are caught in the grips of a powerful addiction. Most are related to life situations that have or haven’t happened yet, “I’ll quit after this big project,” “I’ll quit...
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Zen Koan for Recovery

Zen Koan for Recovery Filled to the Rim In Addiction Recovery it is said that you only need to change one thing, but that thing is everything. And everything is included in everything. Carl Jung stated that this recovery from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body must be a "complete ego deflation, followed by a profound personality change". Sounds simple enough doesn't it? Yep, very simple, but not very easy. How do you precisely, go about changing everything? I'm going to answer that question in...
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Addictions and Your Cross to Bear

Addictions and Your Cross to Bear   Two little stories contain some spiritual truths that can help the addict or alcoholic look at the way they are living their lives. If you think that your troubles are worse than anyone else's you will remain in self-pity. Tip: "Poor me. Poor me. Pour me a drink". Self-pity, which is always combined with resentments of some kind, kills. In order to stay sober you really need to look at this. Having a "cross to bear" may...
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