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How do Treatment Centers work? Effective
treatment plans and counselors. April 2005 - GCR Newsletter
To understand why people succeed in treatment
centers after failing so frequently on their own becomes quite
obvious when you compare the two typical approaches against
each other.
Treatment centers depend on a group of
clients to share their experiences with each other as well
as with a trained counselor. Individuals on their own try
to fight their compulsions and cravings in isolation from
the rest of the world or are tempted by their own friends
and family to continue to drink and use.
Treatment centers utilize sophisticated,
proven treatment plans that are highly structured, reinforced
and methodical in their approach to introducing the client
to recovery. Individuals who want to quite on their own try
to control their drinking and drug use with no plan other
than to use the mind to manufacture the willpower to just
say no. Because this is the same mind that obsessively thinks
about getting loaded it will always fail.
Treatment centers are staffed by licensed,
trained professional alcohol and drug counselors and often
medical doctors and therapists who have seen thousands of
clients suffering from the exact same symptoms and consequences
of dependence and have successfully treated such clients who
continue to live substance free. Individuals know only their
own experience, filled with failure and frustration and find
it easy in the desperate hours of isolation to give up and
once again believe that getting loaded will work for them.
Treatment centers take a client out entirely
out of the environment that has allowed drinking and drug
use to continue and place them in a safe and serene facility
where they can physically detox, rest and recover from the
physical and psychological toll that alcohol and drugs demand.
On their own individuals do not understand that recovery must
be the priority so they remain immersed in the old lifestyle
but attempt to stop getting loaded. They fall victim over
and over to the old expression “if nothing changes,
nothing changes” and these continuous failures only
add to the frustration and make dependence worse rather than
better.
Treatment centers are filled with hope
and promise that recovery from the devastating effects of
drug and alcohol abuse is possible. Clients see other clients
with more time living happily and are introduced to 12-step
support groups where they see people from all walks of life
all with the common goal of living meaningfully in sobriety.
Individuals attempting to stop on their own try to keep their
secret to themselves and have a hard time maintaining hope
and purpose for any length of time.
We hope you can see that the choice is
obvious- recovery depends on openness, willingness and honesty.
The process begins with reaching out to a treatment center
for help today.
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