If you’re considering a high-end drug rehab facility,
thinking that it is somehow superior in treatment methods to the
majority of drug and alcohol treatment facilities, you should know the
truth about these expensive drug rehab facilities and about holistic
drug rehab.
All traditional rehabilitation centers, including high-end drug
rehab, are based on two principles, the disease theory and Twelve Step
programs. These are the pillars of conventional drug addiction
treatment. Unfortunately, they do not work for the overwhelming majority
of people.
High-end drug rehab centers are more luxurious than community drug
rehab centers and less prestigious private rehab centers. If luxury
could cure addiction the way holistic drug rehab can, then these pricey
drug rehabilitation clinics would be a bargain at any price.
Unfortunately, even high-end drug rehab centers claim that there is
no cure for addiction. In this they are no different from other
treatment facilities. Although they may have more illustrious staff and
provide more comforts, paying for a high-end facility does not guarantee
a cure. It actually guarantees the absence of a cure.
Traditional drug rehab facilities believe that addiction to drugs or
alcohol is an incurable disease, that it can only be controlled. This
control takes the form of attending weekly or even daily Twelve Step
meetings for the rest of one’s life, and remaining forever a
"recovering" addict.
The most disturbing aspect of this form of treatment is the
insistence on powerlessness. Twelve Step programs are based on the idea
of the recovering addict’s "powerlessness" over the "disease" and over
life. This form of recovery has a 3-5% success rate, for obvious
reasons.
The "incurable disease" model of drug rehab differs from holistic drug rehab in many ways.
The first is that holistic drug rehab does cure addiction. The most
important element in effecting this cure is believing that it is
possible. If you are certain that addiction cannot be cured, you will
never find the cure. Holistic drug addiction rehab centers begin from
the idea that addiction is not a disease, it is a disorder of the mind,
body and spirit. A disorder can be cured by restoring order.
Both high-end drug rehab centers and holistic drug rehab centers recognize the importance of detox in recovery from addiction.
The difference is that traditional drug rehabilitation centers use
drugs for detox. Methadone, a highly addictive and dangerous drug,
remains the drug of choice for heroin detox, while suboxone, equally
addictive and dangerous, serves as a detox drug for opiate addiction. If
using drugs to remove drugs from the body sounds a little crazy, you
are starting to get the idea. High-end drug rehab and other traditional
drug rehab clinics do not believe in natural cures. They work strictly
on the medical model.
This is where the holistic drug rehab centers create a cure that
traditional, even high-end drug rehab programs cannot bring about.
Holistic drug rehab programs being with detox, just like the
medically-based programs. But holistic treatment involves no medication,
has no side effects, and is a true detoxification. Using the Ibogaine
program for detoxification, holistic drug addiction treatment removes
not only the drugs, but also other toxins, from the body. This cleansing
process prepares the body and the brain for a complete program of
healing and a cure from addiction.
Holistic addiction treatment involves working to heal the mind, body
and spirit and create a new person who is not addicted to drugs. This
occurs by detoxifying the body, creating a mindset shift that literally
changes the mind by changing the thoughts, and restoring the spirit and
soul.
Starting from the position that there is no cure, traditional
high-end drug rehab must use the medical and Twelve Steps approaches. If
addiction is an incurable disease and if alternative treatment methods
such as Ibogaine are not an option, it is obvious that the only option
is to "manage the disease." The accepted methods of managing the
addiction "disease," for the past 75 years, have been drugs (referred to
as medications) and Twelve Step programs.
There is a serious issue with this use of the same methods for
several decades, in spite of their failure to cure drug and alcohol
addiction. AA members are fond of two sayings: "If you always do what
you always did, you’ll always get what you always got," and "Insanity is
doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different
results."
High-end drug rehab centers continue to do what they always did. If
they expected different results, this behavior would be sad. However,
they continue doing the same thing over and over again, expecting the
same results. Considering the abysmal results that traditional treatment
centers currently get from their treatments, an addict might make an
observation something like this: "And I’M supposed to be the crazy one?"