Posts Tagged ‘long-term drug rehab’

Long-Term Drug Rehabs Show Promise

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Why the majority of inpatient rehabs are still only a month long is a mystery to me when it has been clearly documented time and again that long-term drug rehab programs are much more successful.  Sure, there are some cases where a shorter program may be fine, but addiction doesn’t happen overnight and it is very difficult to handle in a month or less.

More than a decade ago I attended a long-term rehabilitation center and not only did it help me save my life, but it also helped me find a new purpose to help others overcome addiction.  I went to a program that was over 90 days and individually-paced, so that some people finished in 3  months, others in 4 or 5 months or longer.  Thankfully there are promising signs that more facilities are offering long-term treatment options

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Cocaine Vaccine a Bust

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Wouldn’t it be great to just take a pill or a shot and rid your worst problems, like drug addiction?  Our Federal Government seems to think it’s still possible.  The ongoing incestual relationship between the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and pharmaceutical companies has turned up yet another failure to produce anything substantial or groundbreaking except more tax dollars wasted.  With at least $3 million in grants given by NIDA to study the TA-CD vaccine for cocaine addiction treatment, the best that the researchers were able to come up with was that about a third of the recipients reduced their drug use by about half.  In other words, none of them stopped using cocaine, but some of them used it less often. 

Wow.  That money could have gone to helping get 100 or more people through a successfu long-term drug rehab and had a much more significant outcome, with many of them being off drugs permanently!

Instead we have more wasted tax dollars that are given to, ultimately, private enterprises (pharmaceutically-driven) looking to strike it rich on the next wonder drug or vaccine (of which the vast majority wind up cuasing so much harm in side effects that they face billions of dollars in law suits).

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How to Choose a Long-Term Drug Rehab

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

More and more family members today are realizing that long-term drug rehab programs are more successful than 30-day rehabs.  The problem is that not all long-term rehabs are the same, so we have a couple guidelines that you might find useful in your search for one that works.

First, you should find out if they have family references of other clients who have successfully completed their program and remained drug-free.  Another reference would be any sort of documents or letters of support from qualified sources.  These are two excellent ways to verify claims made by a program.

Of course, there are plenty of other things to look out for, such as length, cost, location and treatment modalities used and we can assist you with narrowing the search to find a drug and alcohol rehab that works.

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