Are you searching for the truth about the effectiveness of drug addiction treatment programs? It has taken me 3 years of research to get the answers I needed to help my own son.

Why go to a drug addiction recovery program that has a low success rate? You are wasting time and money and your life may be at stake.

The chart below shows that conventional drug treatment programs have low success rates for the long term - 8% - 38% !

Most people do not know that there are alternative medicine choices that have high success rates for addiction recovery - at least 60% according to the chart and I have seen results of 80% and more! (Chart provided by Dr. Joan Mathews-Larson)

You do have options!

But you have to use the holistic health approach and treat the whole person - mind, body and spirit.

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A report from Sacramento shows the following profile of the homeless in the county (top 5):

* 53.8% substance abuse

* 34.1% mentally ill

* 25.4% chronic cases (Federal officials define a chronically homeless person as someone who is disabled and who has lived on the streets for more than a year, or who has been homeless four times within three years.)

* 20.4% domestic violence

* 19.3% veterans

Sacramento officials report that the number of chronically homeless was down 5 percent, even as the total number of homeless within Sacramento County increased.

The reductions in chronic cases reflect a federal push to move resources from temporary shelters to supporting long-term housing efforts aimed at keeping the chronically homeless off the streets.

Do you think the government could come up with a simple program to heal the substance abusers?

Here is an example of a successful program for drug addiction treatment >> Community Addiction Recovery Association

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by: David Westbrook

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Half a decade ago, I started working on a hotline to help addicts and their families find drug addiction treatment centers. Thousands of calls later, I still remember the first time I picked up the line. I could hardly make out what the woman on the other end was saying to me. Shelly (not her real name) was sobbing. She had just arrived at her father’s apartment and had found him passed out cold on the couch with a needle still sticking out of his arm. Why she called our line instead of 9-1-1 was a mystery. I called for an ambulance and waited on the phone with her until they arrived. She told me how her father had been a construction worker, though his dream was to play guitar in a band. Shelly said her parents split up when she was thirteen because of her dad’s drinking. He moved away to live in another state for a couple of years and they began to lose touch. He would send the occasional card or make a call on her birthday the first couple of years, but that eventually ended.

After college, Shelly decided to find her dad. It turned out that he had moved back and was living just a couple of miles from where she grew up. Somewhere along the way, he had picked up a heroin habit. Shelly tried to talk him into going to treatment, but he always had an excuse for why he couldn’t. Shelly said she visited him weekly, helped him keep his apartment up, bought his groceries and kept after him to quit. She said she they had just talked the night before and that he had, for the first time, agreed to try treatment. On my end, I could hear the ambulance approaching and then a knock on the door. Shelly hung up and I never heard from her again.

Today in America, there are 13 million people in need of alcohol or drug addiction treatment. Fortunately, according the government, there are just over 13,000 drug addiction treatment centers waiting to help these individuals. It may have been too late for Shelly’s dad, I don’t know, but I do know that it is not too late for anyone who is looking for a drug addiction treatment center today. Each year millions of people across America, enter treatment centers. For many, this marks a fresh start, a rebirth. It is an opportunity to rebuild broken relationships and broken lives. Those who successfully complete rehab join a recovery community that is already millions strong.

This article, intended to be one in a three part series, is dedicated to addicts and family members of addicts who are searching for answers. Its goal in the series is to help those suffering from drug abuse and/or their loved ones to make informed choices when entering drug addiction treatment. I invite you to join me over the next couple of weeks as these articles explore the different types of treatment settings and then how to find the right treatment center for you or a loved one. In the end, I am confident that combined with careful research of what makes good treatment and by following your own intuition; you or a loved one can begin a new life.

David Westbrook is a freelance writer. He has spent several years talking to thousands of addicts and their families who are in search of drug addiction treatment centers. He invites you to visit his websites:

www.addictionsresources.comand

www.alcoholismresources.com

and  email: recoveryresources@gmail.com

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