Although presented as fact, these self-defeating pronouncements are simply not true! Consumers should know that they have options that are highly successful.
It is possible to overcome drug addictions but you may have to look outside the box of conventional addiction treatment programs to find the answer. Standard treatment programs often don’t take into account the physiological basis of substance abuse, an oversight some see as the main reason for their low success rates. Although it isn’t logical to enter a program where the success rate is low, people have been doing so for years. Part of the reason may be that most people don’t realize that alternatives exist – viable alternatives with excellent success rates using the holistic medicine approach.
Dr. Joan Mathews-Larson, author of Seven Weeks to Sobriety, one of the pioneers in the holistic treatment of alcohol addiction, stated the conventional treatment system is antiquated because it isn’t based on science. It’s based on someone’s notion that there is some psychological flaw in alcoholics and that if we talk to them long enough, we’ll straighten them out.
Dr. Mathews-Larson was the first to show that the Orthomolecular Medicine approach, when added to a conventional psychosocial treatment model, could double and even triple the expected long-term recovery rates for alcohol and drug addicted people.
Her studies showed conventional treatments with successful outcomes of between 8 and 34 percent. The holistic approaches showed successful outcomes of 60 to 79 percent.
Which program makes more sense
Dr. Charles Gant, author of End Your Addiction Now, duplicated these astounding high recovery rates when he was the medical director of a 60-bed inpatient drug and alcohol treatment facility in the 1990′s.
Julia Ross, MFT, a pioneer in the field of nutritional psychology and author of the highly acclaimed book, The Mood Cure, stated that psychological and spiritual approaches are valuable in many ways, but I have not found them to be very effective for eradicating addiction – unless they are combined with nutritional rehabilitation. Her book outlines ways for people to improve their health and well-being using a self-help holistic approach.
The truth is that you can treat substance abuse problems holistically. Using this approach has been shown to provide the best chance of a successful recovery from drug abuse. Why settle for less than the best possible chance
Note Orthomolecular medicine describes the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body. For more information see orthomolecular.org
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