Altoona, Pennsylvania Drug Rehab Information
Altoona, Pennsylvania Drug Rehab and Alcohol Addiction Treatment Information
Substance Abuse Costs Lives Every Year in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Substance abuse is the nation’s number one health-related problem and the effects can be seen in Altoona, Pennsylvania . Drug and alcohol addiction is the root cause to many other societal problems and it costs our country up to $500 billion each year, in addition to the thousands of lives lost, broken homes and drug-related crime.
Most addiction treatment centers have a limited success rate, where the majority of the clients relapse. This is not the case with Narconon Arrowhead. In fact, approximately 70% of the graduates of our drug and alcohol rehab remain drug free.
To find out if there are any drug rehab treatment or counseling facilities serving people in Altoona, Pennsylvania that are suitable for your needs, please call 1-800-468-6933.
Drug Rehab Information By State
There are many different types of
rehab programs using many different philosophies and methodologies.
Some are long, some are short, some are drug free, some are advocates of using drug therapies to handle other drug addictions, and some built the individual up, while others tear him down with a philosophy of being diseased for life.
Narconon Arrowhead is a long term, non-traditional, completely drug free
rehab program.
We do not operate from the disease concept of
addiction but rather assist the individual in confronting their own cravings, guilt, and depression that are the three main points needing address to resolve
addiction or
alcoholism for a lifetime.
Drug Rehab Information By City
Mental as well as physical dependence both fall under the label of drug addictions.
These occur when one no longer feels able to control their use despite harm or damage being caused to self or others.
There is sometimes the mistaken idea that unless a drug or substance causes physical
addiction it is not addictive.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Mental drug
addictions can be just as debilitating to the individual as physical ones, at times even more so. The surge in violence and suicide among our young people and adolescents trying to break free from the traps of prescribed anti-psychotics and anti-depressants are all too obvious examples. Drug
addictions are not confined to street drugs or illegal substances, but are crossing age, race, economic, and education levels. Drugs are never the near cure-alls they are increasingly being made out to be in the advertising arenas.
Opium
addiction has a long history.
It was a problem in the 1850’s when morphine was developed as a non-addictive substitute.
Morphine was soon a bigger
addiction problem than opium.
The morphine problem was ‘solved’ with another opium derivative – Heroin, which proved to be even more addictive than either morphine or opium. In the middle and latter parts of the 20th century along come methadone as the cure for heroin.
You guessed it, methadone is stronger, more addictive, and more life threatening than any of the opium derivatives that came before it. Ask any methadone addict, or addiction professional dealing with
methadone addiction and withdrawal. By the 1990’s the mortality rate from opium derivatives was estimated to be 20 times greater than the general population.
A residential
rehab facility is one where the individual lives and resides at the facility for the duration of his or her
addiction treatment.
Residential
rehab in all but a few cases is probably the best choice when it comes to
addiction treatment. It removes the individual from the environment where all the use and
abuse was occurring and allows the addict to confront the issues of addiction in a drug free and safe environment.
Interacting with and aiding fellow addicts who strongly desire sobriety is in no small way a major benefit as well.
An addict’s ability to begin to reach out to another human being and give as well as receive help and assistance can be a major turning point in recovery.
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