Breaking the Cycle of Addiction with Narconon

Drug and alcohol treatment facilities like Narconon have as their mission statement, “…freeing someone from their addiction.”  As families are so close to the problem and can often be active or passive participants in the cycle of enabling behavior, the rehabilitation center is charged with the task of getting the person sorted out.  Tracing back the origins of the drug and alcohol abuse in a person’s life is one of the most effective ways of determining the solution.  This is why more treatment facilities are embracing a more individualized care pattern.  As people try drugs for the first time, it is invariably in an effort to solve a problem for them.  Shown through a routine of experimentation that brings the person to their drug of choice.  The drug of choice has provided them with what they are looking for, albeit a false solution to their ‘problem’.

After entering treatment, in most cases, the focus is on getting an addict to never go back to that lifestyle again.  It takes time to get to core issues, so in the average thirty day program these issues often go unresolved.  Also occurring is the juxtaposition of reasons the person continued using versus the reason that they started in the first place.  Identifying them individually and correctly will help the cycle of addiction to be ended permanently.

For example, the addict began using because he felt he needed to do certain things (i.e. drugs, drinking) in order to be a certain person he wanted to be (clearly a very backward solution).  Now he enters treatment and identifies, in thirty days, that he used drugs to stop the negative emotion of shame caused by the disappointment he feels from his parents.  If this person only addressed the second reason for drug abuse, after leaving treatment he may well think he is still not the person he wants to be, because he is not doing certain things.  It has set him up for failure by only solving a subsidiary, consequential issue involved in his drug abuse.

The long term results of sobriety are directly proportionate to the length of a treatment plan.  Average treatment plans are a minimum of 1 year.  The actual logistics of where and how the person is receiving that help varies; differing lengths of detox, in-patient/residential, and out-patient and sober living environments.  Point being, that they are given ample opportunity to reach the actual trouble(s) with life in general which led to the use, misuse and eventual abuse of chemical substances.  Narconon Vista Bay is one treatment center which specializes in rectifying the core issues of a person through cognitive processing.  The addict is guided to their own solutions to their own core issues, thereby avoiding any damaging evaluation directed at someone while they are vulnerable and emotional.  Cognitive processing has been proven to be very affective in uncovering the problems, setting up for vastly effective follow up.  If the person has, themselves, decided what needs to be fixed, imagine how much more open they will be to engaging in finding the solution to it.  Conversely, if given a judgment of what is wrong from an exterior source (in the form of an opinion) right or not, the tendency is to go into denial, or shut down on the professional trying to help them and resentment builds.  Every parent out there has seen this response when telling their child what is best for him or her.

An addict can be guided to finding out enough about themselves and the world around them, to initiate a course of action which leads to lasting sobriety.  The group therapy model is not the optimum setting to bring about this change, it is however the least costly.  Due to the lower cost it remains as the most prominent style of treatment in the field of recovery, especially when insurance is fitting the bill or the state-funding is limited.  Surprisingly even in the more expensive privatized treatment centers this acts as a way to increase profits, less paid counselors to more clients.  It is in the private non-profit sector we see more of the individualized attention being delivered at facilities like Narconon.  In addition to being one of these private non-profit centers (501c3), Narconon Vista Bay is working with insurance companies to offset the cost of their effective, long-term treatment program.

There are treatment styles and programs all over the country, California is leading the country in a revamping on the outlook of addiction treatment.  Innovative solutions to individual lives will be seen in future as the best solution to an old problem, because if done properly it will be a one-time and be over.   These treatment programs like Narconon Drug Rehabilitation will continue to expand and obtain results helping addicts and the families of addicts in finishing a tumultuous chapter in their lives, because caring enough about the beginning will bring solutions in the end.