On the contrary, non-12 step drug rehab programs, such as those outlined in The New Face of Recovery produce permanent results to end addiction with people every year, without wasting taxpayer dollars.

I think a bigger problem than finding addicts to participate would be convincing them that the show could actually help them recover.  In fact, since it promotes the disease theory of addiction that many unsuccessful drug rehab centers use, I doubt that program participants are there for a chance to get clean so much as a chance to earn some face time on national television and a paycheck.  Of course not all of them, but my guess would be the majority of them.  If you want to see permanent recovery happening, they should film a successful non-12-step drug rehab program.

One of the most successful ways of dealing with the physical cravings is through a non-12 step biophysical drug rehab.  These programs have a very unique and intense body cleansing process that removes the stored drug residues that can cause physical cravings.  In addition, by reducing or eliminating these toxins, program participants report increased mental clarity, better sleeping patterns and more energy as a result.

Contact us today for more information on this amazing procedure and to find a non-12 step drug rehab that offers this as a part of its program.

However, despite drawing much criticism from mainstream drug rehabs, many non-12-step rehabilitation programs achieve a much higher recovery rate than any traditional treatment practices – especially those that do not try to medicate their patients or tell them they are diseased for life. 

It is time for a non-governmental organization to fund a study of traditional vs. non-traditional rehab methods and make these results well publicized.  In the meantime, we can assist people in locating inpatient drug rehabs that don’t follow the 12 steps and that have a very high rate of success.

So, if you were applying that definition to a drug rehab, then you might assume that it would use natural therapies to address the symptoms of addiction rather then a more westernized (pharmaceutical) mediine approach.  However, there are more and more addiction treatment centers today that are using the term holistic in their descriptions and even their titles that apply a different definition, simiilar to that found from webster.com: relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts. 

This is spun into saying that the whole person needs to be treated, not just the stymptoms or only certain parts of the problem.  While this definition is also true, what has been misleading is that many of these drug rehab programs will still use prescription drugs to treat addiction, thus taking them out of the realm of the first definition of holistic displayed above.

Since many of todays more traditional rehab centers fall under the pharmaceutical regime, it may be that you need to explore non 12 step drug rehab options.  Either way, we can help you find a program for yourself or a loved one in need.  Just call us today at 1-877-372-5719.

You can also find just about any type of rehab program available, including non-12-step drug rehabs in California, traditional programs, faith-based programs, and just about everything in between.

We can help you locate a successful rehab in California, so contact us today to speak with a counselor who can assist you.  Call 1-877-372-5719.

See, many of these addiction scientists love focusing on the brain and chemical interactions and testing rats.  Why is that?  Their underlying belief is that people are controlled by their brains instead of having minds and spirits that can overcome physical situations (like brain chemistry), with the right help.  This doesn’t mean that drug rehab centers should not use any physical rehabilitation techniques, in fact it is quite the opposite, but it does mean that people can and do have successful addiction recovery every day without taking more drugs to treat the chemicals in the brain.

Most non-12-step drug rehabs use more of an a holistic approach that includes nutritional therapy, education and some type of spiritual element rather than reducing someone to being powerless against the neurotransmitters, water and tissue inside their head.  It just so happens that they are also typically much more successful than traditional programs.

“A survey of health professionals found that referring to people with addictions as “substance abusers” was more likely to evoke punitive responses to drug use than those who referred to individuals with “substance-use disorders,” according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

John F. Kelly, Ph.D., associate director of MGH’s Center for Addiction Medicine noted that the World Health Organization declared the term “abuser” as stigmatizing three decades ago, but the term is still commonly used to describe people with addictions to illicit drugs. Referring to recovery, Kelly said, “There’s an old proverb that states, if you want something to survive and flourish, call it a flower; if you want to kill it, call it a weed.”

Kelly and colleagues surveyed more than 700 mental-health professionals attending a conference on addiction and mental illness. Half received a survey that referred to a hypothetical patient as a “substance abuser,” while the rest got a survey referring to the patient as having a “substance use disorder.” The surveys were otherwise identical.

Respondents who received the “substance abuser” version were more likely to say that the patient should be punished for failing to follow a treatment plan and to agree that the patient shouldered blame for having trouble complying with court-ordered treatment requirements.

“Our results imply that these punitive attitudes may be evoked by use of the ‘abuser’ term, whether individuals are conscious of it or not, and suggest that this term perpetuates that kind of thinking,” Kelly said. “From the perspective of the individual sufferers, who often feel intense self-loathing and self-blame, such terminology may add to the feelings that prevent them from seeking help.”

The study was published in the International Journal of Drug Policy.”

Wow, what a waste of time and money!  How about looking at the clients instead.  Like seeing how they respond to being called students or clients instead of patients, former addicts instead of addicts, recovered instead of recovering, and just about anything other than diseased! 

Unfortunately, in order to find those alternatives a person typically has to go to a non-12-step drug rehab  or addiction treatment center to find an atmosphere like that because most traditional programs still use addict, disease, patient, mental illness and in recovery.