Addiction Recovery: How Long Does It Takes?

Published on Friday, February 25th, 2011 at 6:27 am and is filed under Addictions

For the beginning, let’s make it clear what is addiction recovery.

About addiction, we know from dictionaries that it is a state when somebody is in under control of some thing or someone. According to what kind of addiction is the man we can distinguish some types of addiction: alcohol addiction, drugs, games or other addictions.

Addiction recovery or treatment – is to get rid of dependence, to set free a person from the influence of something (e.g., to stop drinking alcohol).

Treatment itself, and especially the recovery of drug addiction, is different from other treatments at all.

addiction recovery and treatment

Addiction treatment is successful if there is a clear and simple answer to the question: what is it treated?

If the kidneys hurt – it must be clear that – we talk about the treatment of kidney disease.

If the leg hurts – we talk about the treatment of leg. What we try to treat when we talk about the treatment of alcohol or drug addiction? Do we treat addiction?

You can feel the leg, bandage it or stab the syringe.

What is the treatment of alcohol addiction? What to prick or bandage? Should we stab the syringe in these “dependence”? Sounds silly, doesn’t it?

However, doctors who got under control addiction recovery came to the conclusion that if the addiction is associated with mental disorders, the treatment should start with the head.

The poor heads of patients who have agreed on a substance abuse treatment, were subjected to relentless attacks by scalpels, drills, saws and high-voltage electrodes, which experts have declared as “knowing everything about addiction treatment”, trying to get to this obscure stuff, depending on its cut.

Unfortunately, when such drug alcohol treatment ended successful nobody knows. Of course, if a successful outcome is to understand the human condition, to which was applied addiction treatment, when he completely got rid of one or another form of dependence, staying still a living person. That is what it was before the advent of dependence. We cannot be considered successful and valid such addiction treatment, after which a person loses a significant part of the power and the desire to live, or become mentally or physically disabled by cutting the brain, electric shock or drug under the guise of “addiction treatment”.

We have to understand that addiction recovery – is a process that should lead not only to the final and total elimination of dependence, but return to his former state and even improve it.

The fact that until recently such a delicate matter, as substance abuse treatment, had so little success, is by no means an indication that the addiction treatment remains a persistent problem.

No. The solution to addiction is found, a precise and successful one.

There are already thousands of people passing through the successful treatment of drug addiction, who have long forgotten that were once based. When the specialist knows the nature of relationship – for him dependence treatment is not complex and confusing affair.

The present treatment of drug dependence does not exist indeed.

It leads a person to not only get rid of the addiction, but also for the restoration of the former - including creative abilities. This treatment is based on rehabilitation program. Strictly speaking - it is not addiction recovery, but something more, but leads to the result, which should result in any treatment of addiction.

Rehabilitation Program provides successful treatment of drug addiction for several reasons.

Known the exact reason for which people had tried to treat drug addiction, and wrong was failing. This is fixed permanently. And those who conduct drug treatment standard, without such a gracious heart of the Russian “scientist” gag, waiting for a guaranteed success.

Known the exact reason why the people conducting the unsuccessful treatment of dependence, attack people carrying out the successful treatment of addiction, and on who wins this battle depends the success of such a thing as addiction treatment.

Therefore, it would be wise for anyone who has faced the problem of “unsuccessful” treatment of dependence, to find himself all the three above-mentioned reasons, and such a thing causes to be as healed according to people confusing subject.

About the author: Michael Newman is the founder and the author of this psychology dedicated blog. He is a psychologist leading training sessions, an expert in NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), transpersonal psychology and Eastern philosophy.

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