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When to seek professional help
When to seek Professional Advice
The world of drug and alcohol addiction is a confusing place, and for some reason people think that talking to friends, family members, clergy or even their hair dresser is the best source of information when looking for addiction rehab help. Even if these people have had some sort of addiction experience in the past it does not mean they know what is best for your loved one. There are many different methods of addiction rehab and there is not one that is right for everyone. If you had someone with cancer in your family would you trust these same people to help you make the decision on where to get the best cancer treatment; or would you seek professional help. Of course you would go to a professional and let them guide you to the best treatment plan for your specific needs.
Over the past ten years as the addiction epidemic has grown Addiction Rehabilitation Centers have been opening up all over the U.S., in many cases these programs are nothing more than a way to make big money for the owners. They will incorporate the lowest cost methods of treatment, such as group meetings where 15 individuals are grouped together with 1 counselor. This method offers a very low success rate for long term sobriety but they are very low cost, so the program can make the most profit. These addiction rehabs have very qualified sales people working their phones and they will make you feel very comfortable about the center, only after you spend thousands of dollars do you realize your loved one is not getting the help promised.
Many times people will talk to other families that have had a loved one in an Addiction Rehabilitation Center; their family member is still sober after x number of years, so they think it must be a good Rehabilitation Center. They send their loved one into that same program; only, upon completion of the program their loved one relapses almost immediately. Every person has their own specific needs; what worked for one is not right for everyone. A Professional Addiction Counselor can assess your loved one and make recommendations to the best Addiction Treatment Centers based on their specific needs.
To find the best Addiction Rehab Help you need to speak with an unbiased addiction professional that has the knowledge of what programs and methods of treatment are available, not only in your home town or even home state but a across the country.
Call a professional Addiction Rehabilitation Counselor today; 1-877-744-3536
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Alcoholics Anonymous / The 12 Steps
The Twelve Steps
Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935 in Akron Ohio as the outcome of a meeting between a Surgeon and a New York Stock Broker. After 4 years of working to refine the steps and setting up meetings in 3 different cities the group published their first book of the 12 steps and the stories that the founders had to tell; the year was 1939 and a fellowship like none other had been born. Today A.A. is established in at least 110 countries and has hundreds of thousands of people attending meetings worldwide.
The 12 Steps;
1. “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.”
2. “Came to believe that a power greater then ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
3. “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.”
4. “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.”
5. “Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”
6. “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.”
7. “Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.”
8. “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.”
9. “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.”
10. “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.”
11. “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.”
12. “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”
“A.A.s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which if practiced as a way of life, can help the alcoholic live an alcohol free live.
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