Creating Your Reality

The Art of persuasion is a powerful tool used for centuries. This art that when used correctly will effect change in people, you can do anything. How often do we tell ourselves how dumb we are. Always convincing our selves on what we can't do. Often times recovery is a goal so alien to us just the thought may lead to thinking how unattainable it could be.
Drug addictions creep up on us and before we know it we are in so deep it seems there is no way out. In reality most cases of addiction does not happen over night. When intoxicated we feel good but only for the first few times. And then we have to chase that high. All the time convincing our selves I cant wait to get high. We talk ourselves into a good time we know deep down we may not get and usually don't.
When would now be a good time to convince yourself of a new reality. Create for your self a life that others have. You have the power to be, do or have what ever it is you want. Picture in your mind the person you know you are and let us help you find that person.
Create a future memories of your self. Stop letting the past define you and learn from it. Let us use the power of persuasion to go beyond your current reality. Take your power back and transform your self. Take the time you deserve 90, 60, or 30 day stay to re discover you.
Be Amazing
Anthony J Mendez csac

Is Abstinance the same as Addiction Recovery?

Some people think that abstinence from drugs or alcohol is the same as being in recovery. The truth is, abstinence is only a part of true addiction recovery.

Recovery is a process. Abstinance is one of the events that occurs as part of addiction recovery. True recovery is more about a transformation of the your person into someone who acts, thinks, and behaves differently than someone who acts, thinks, and behaves like an "addict". In other words, you take the best parts of your person, develop them more fully, and take away many of the negative parts that helped foster the addiction. You become a better you!

How does addiction recovery happen? Basically, it happens through great guidance and a lot of hard work. The best drug rehabs and best alcohol rehabs offer a great way to jump start your recovery and save your life. They are able to offer the guidance and support that it takes to put you on the right path. Always remember that addiction recovery has to be your new number one priority in your life from now on.

Easy Ways to Stop Drinking Alcohol

If you are looking for easy ways to stop drinking, it indicates that you have a problem. If you didn't have a problem, stopping drinking would be easy and you would not have to hunt for "easy" ways out of the problem.

If you can't easily stop drinking on your own, then there are ways in which you will be able to stop as well as get yourself into recovery. Even though there are solutions, they are not easy. Like most things, they take work. The first thing to recognize is that you need help. You can't do it on your own. You have already tried to control your drinking. That's what everyone tries at first. It didn't work. The best help is going to be found in a top alcohol rehab program. The best alcohol rehab programs are going to help jump start your recovery and put you on the right path. They can also do alcohol detox, so you don't have to worry about dangerous or uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms.

Most things worth having take work. Addiction recovery is one of the most valuable things you could ever have. Be willing to put in some hard work in order to get it.

How to Overcome Addiction

Overcoming addiction. That's what everyone wants to know, right? Well, first of all, you need help. There is help for alcoholics. There is help for drug addiction. You can't do it by yourself. Overcoming addiction is not done by cutting back or limiting use. Surprisingly, it is not overcome just by stopping drinking or using drugs!

The answer to overcoming addiction can be complicated at times (the help of a top drug rehab or alcohol rehab can get you going on the right path), but it essentially boils down to this:

Make Recovery your Numero Uno Priority! That means that nothing else is more important than your own personal recovery. I don't care if your house is on fire, recovery has to be the number one priority. After all, let's say your house is on fire, if you are falling down drunk or stoned out of your mind, you are not going to be helpful putting out the fire. In fact you might find yourself on fire in addition to your house!

The point is this: if recovery is always your number one priority above everything else, you are well on your way to a new and much better life. There is a terrific private drug and alcohol rehab program called Paradise Recovery, located in Hawaii, that can teach you exactly how to make recovery the number one priority in your life. Are you ready for change? Give them a call: 866-478-9898.

Hawaii Alcohol Rehab

There is only one licensed and accredited private alcohol rehab in Hawaii: Paradise Recovery. Located on Oahu, Paradise Recovery is limited to 8 beds, ensuring the ultimate in individualized treatment with some of the best addiction treatment professionals in Hawaii. Paradise Recovery takes a holistic approach to addiction recovery and alcohol rehab. However, the treatment itself utilizes scientifically proven methods to help put you on the road to recovery. Give Paradise Recovery a call today to speak to a counselor at their toll-free number: 866-478-9898.

Rules in Drug Rehab

The best drug rehabs and best alcohol rehabs have a structure within which the staff and clients go about their business of achieving recovery. Why are rules so important? Because rules are a major component of the structure. OK, so why is structure important?

Structure = Recovery. Got it? Structure is the essential foundation for building a lasting recovery. The rules, adherence to the rules, and enforcement of the rules promotes addiction recovery. Addiction loves chaos and confusion. Addiction hates structure and rules. The lack of rules and structure promotes chaos. Addiction loves that!! If you want to get well in rehab, there has to be a structure rooted in personal and house rules.

Rules and structure may seem a bit painful or bothersome at first glance. However, they are the foundation to your beginning journey on the road to addiction recovery. Call Paradise Recovery at 866-478-9898 to learn more about what it takes to get on the recovery path.

Joy in Recovery

Getting sober, starting on a path of individual recovery, trying to stop using drugs and alcohol--all sounds like serious business. And to a certain extent, it is serious--dead serious. An alcoholic/addict, unarrested in the disease process, has a high likelihood of debilitating physical ramifications and obviously even death. So yes, recovery is serious business and needs to be taken seriously.

But that's not to say that all of recovery is approached with a grim visage or the expectation that the good times are all in the past.

Recovery can be a joyful and remarkably uplifting journey.

First, people in recovery are generally terrific people. Spend some time at an AA or NA meeting and listen closely. Sure many share their sad and difficult times, but so much of these gatherings is based on fellowship, friendship, laughter and joy. Recovering alcoholics have wicked good humor and are more than happy to turn their tragedies into comedy.

Secondly, many in recovery take great joy (and at times a little pride) in the process of uncovering. Recovering folk have to develop a better understanding of themselves and their places in the world. This process of self-exploration is one of continued interest to those that do the work in earnest and pay attention.

Thirdly, recovering people learn how to play--how to actually have fun without relying on the ingestion of some form of chemical. Recovery is a time of infinite possibility in terms of recreation--exposure to activities that were never possible for the using person.

And lest we forget, once sober, recovering people get to remember the good times they've had.

So if you're worried that giving up your addiction will be the end of fun, think again. you have nothing to lose by making that call and reaching out. And you have both your life and some fun to gain if you try.

A Power Greater Than Yourself

To give one's will and life over to the care of something unseen, how difficult is that? And yet this is specifically what addicts and alcoholics are asked to do in Step 3 of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics (of Narcotics) Anonymous. To make a decision to turn their will over.

Tall order, of course.

The question is why? Why do the twelve steps so fervently require the submission to a higher power? Why must we give our wills and lives over?

It's rare that a satisfactory answer can be offered to these questions. Some say that the drug or alcohol had become a higher power and hence a substitution is necessary. Others feel that the addicted mind has become so misguided that really sound decision making is no longer possible, hence some external guidance becomes essential.

I'm uncertain whether it matters. Looking around the gatherings of people in recovery and most have developed some form of belief. And most are working on a path that allows them to live in a way that contributes to others.

And most that have done this step feel better about themselves and the world. Feel better.

Tall order, but it would seem worthwhile.

The Addiction Cure

No one has the "cure" for addiction, even though some claim that they do. Let's be realistic. If there were a cure for addiction, we would no longer see it in our society. This is far from the truth.

The reality is that addiction recovery requires a lot of work and focus. That is as close to a cure as we can get. It is very possible, with the right treatment program and focus on your part, to have a sustained recovery from addiction. Hopefully, forever. But it requires an ongoing effort.

Seeking the best addiction recovery program is the other part of the equation. The best drug rehab or alcohol rehab can put you on the path of recovery and give you a road map. Once the map to recovery is laid out, your consistent efforts and passion to remain in recovery are what will allow you to prevail over addiction.

Hawaiian Island Treatment: An Integrative Recovery Experience

The Hawaiian Islands: Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and the Big Island of Hawaii are a series of Pacific islands that are blessed with ideal weather and some of the newest earth on this planet. Millions of residents and tourists have benefited from our "aina", or "the land". Some say when you visit Hawaii and arrive home you "want to be a better person!" Oahu offers an experience of serenity, which is desperately needed in early recovery from alcohol and drug addiction and dependence.

Paradise Recovery offers an integrative treatment experience. We integrate best practice traditional and complimentary addiction recovery medicine, spiritual enhancement, fitness and diet changes, positive psychology, acupuncture, breath work and Qi Gong practices. It's not enough to bare your soul in treatment. You need tools and practices that will replace and fill the proverbial "void" that most addicts and alcoholics speak of.

If you or someone you love is seeking a private, quality addiction recovery experience in Hawaii call our 24 Hour HelpLine at (866) 478-9898 today!

Recuperatio Primoris!

Dr. Bill Heran

Oahu Drug Rehabilitation

There is a choice for people from the State of Hawaii who want to stay in the islands for holistic, private addiction treatment, including drugs and alcohol. Several years ago, the people of Hawaii had to turn to the mainland if they wanted private, quality help for alcoholics, drug rehab, or treatment for addiction of all types. This is no longer true. We have one of the best drug and alcohol rehabs in the entire country, located right here in our home state!

Give our HelpLine a call, today: 866-478-9898. We will help you get the help that you need.

Alcoholism and Drug Addiction: Lessons Learned

Most people have difficulty taking a meta-perspective to their addictions and figuring out what and why they are doing while addicted. However, I've treated both women and men in recovery who often say "I thank my addiction. I wouldn't be the person I am today without it!" It sounds strange. Why would you want to thank your addiction? It causes much pain and isolation. It appears that when a person can discern meaning in their life's narrative, they are more likely not to return to these behaviors, since they have learned what they needed to learn and moving on to the next phase of their lives.

What can a person "learn" from their addiction? Well, the learning usually occurs in contrast to the recovery they practice secondary to their addiction. For example, a client recently shared with me "without my addiction I would not have learned to have empathy for those struggling with addiction and other dark forces in their lives". This person is a physician who travels the world assisting poor countries with outbreaks of epidemics and their health care needs. He has become empathic secondary to his addiction to alcohol and pain medications. He came to understand the "meaning" of his addiction and replaced it (with the help of professionals and the 12-Steps)with a life of giving kindness without counting the cost!

Addiction is not to be glorified. However, once you begin the contemplative journey towards recovery, don't necessarily reject your experiences as an addict, but bring them along with you into your recovery. If you, or a loved one is struggling with addiction and trying desperately to be sober, please call our 24-Hour HelpLine at (866)478-9898.
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain"
Carl Jung

Recuperatio Primoris! (Recovery above all else)

Dr. Bill Heran

Why Private Drug Rehab?

Because it works. Let's say you wanted to take a painting class. Do you think you would learn more effectively in a class with 80 people or in a class with 8 people? How much individual attention would you get from the professor in the class with 80 people vs. 8? How much would your individual needs and talents be recognized in the class of 80?

Now consider a life-threatening condition like drug or alcohol addiction. Intuitively, a smaller, private drug rehab or alcohol rehab with highly trained therapists is going to allow for more individualized attention and care. Your needs are going to be met. If your "brush strokes" are incorrect, someone is going to notice right away and be able to gently nudge you back on track.

The answer is obvious. Most people get lost in the sea of people in a large drug rehab. They go along with the herd, receiving cookie-cutter treatment. If they are off track, it is difficult to notice because of the number of people involved.

You are only in drug or alcohol rehab for a very short time. Make the most of it and give yourself the best shot at addiction recovery in one of the best drug rehabs. A private one.

Drug Rehab from the Inside Out?

The best drug rehab and alcohol rehab centers are those that take a holistic approach to drug and alcohol treatment. Most say that healing takes place from "the inside out". Basically, this means that you are making internal changes in your thinking and behavior that leads down a path of sobriety.

I want to point out that a truly holistic drug or alcohol treatment program also promotes healing from the outside in. Like we have talked about before, addiction recovery involves a multi-faceted but integrated treatment approach. The treatment approach does not focus solely on what's inside. Sometimes, things need to change on the outside before the inside can begin to change. For example, there are certain nutritional needs that you are going to have in early recovery. The provision of food and the food being seen as medicine is an outside change that will begin to affect the inside of your body and allow it to heal. Acupuncture is an external process that literally goes from outside in, and works to promote internal healing as well. Physical exercise and your physical environment certainly play a role in the healing process.

So, when drug rehabs promote healing from the inside out, they are missing a big part of the best treatment that can be used for addiction recovery.

Steve Tyler goes to Rehab: Recovery from addiction

Aerosmith's Steve Tyler has gone back into drug rehab. He apparently had a long period of sobriety dating back to the 1980's before presumably relapsing.

This is a good opportunity to talk about why we don't say you have "recovered" from addiction. That's because no one is ever really "recovered". However, there are many people in "recovery". Recovery is a constant process. You spend the rest of your life working on your recovery. It is a day to day process. Addiction is a disease that can be managed. If you begin to believe you have "recovered" from addiction, that is the time that you are likely to stop working on recovery. Your life no longer focuses on recovery. It is the time that you are most likely to relapse.

I am not saying that this is what happened with Steve Tyler. I don't know why he relapsed. Only he can tell us that information. But it goes to show that no matter how long you are in recovery, you have never really recovered from the disease of addiction.

Don't be too depressed over this fact of life. Many diseases are quite manageable but require daily attention. If you don't manage it, the disease recurs. If you do manage it, the disease is much less likely to recur. I frequently compare addiction to the disease of diabetes because it helps people better understand addiction in a more concrete way. If a person is diagnosed with type II diabetes, they will hopefully begin to manage it. Ideally, they will make lifestyle changes. They change what they eat, maybe where they eat, how often they eat, what time they eat, and how much they eat. They see a dietician for consultation, begin to exercise on a regular basis, start a weight loss plan, become educated about the disease, enlist the support of friends and family, start on medication, etc. As the weight comes off and the diet improves, many type II diabetics are able to "recover" from the disease. As such, there blood sugar comes back down into the normal range and they no longer require medication.

But think about it for a second.... this person had to make tremendous lifestyle changes in order to get themselves into recovery from the diabetes. They had to give daily attention to the management of the disease. Let me ask you this: What if the diabetic who now has a normal blood sugar stops managing the disease? They stop with the special diet and frequent small meals. They are no longer careful with what they eat, don't check their blood sugars, skip the appointments with the dietician, etc. Well, it does not take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.... the diabetes relapses! Addiction is absolutely no different. It is a disease that continually needs to be managed. It takes work, focus, and priority.

We salute Steve Tyler for the life changes that he made in the face of tremendous temptation in order to get into recovery and stay in recovery for many years. He should rightly be proud of his years of sobriety, as well as his decision to recognize the need for treatment for himself again. We all wish him many, many more years of sobriety and recovery in the future.

Is Drug Rehab easy?

Drug rehab is easy. Is that what you wanted to hear? How about this: "we have the cure for addiction, and it is located in a posh drug rehab in Honolulu, Hawaii!" Isn't that great? I have seen other rehabs say that they have "the cure". Well, if it sounds too good to be true.... you know the rest.

The truth is, drug rehab is not easy. Any transformative process takes effort. It is hard work. Emotional work. However, surrounded by caring professional people, who involve significant others and your loved ones in your treatment, you are able be on the road to recovery. You can do it! We are here to support you through the difficult recovery process. Remember, though, the beginning is the most difficult. Things get easier with time! As your life and perspective transform into that of a person in early recovery, joy will return to your life.

Roll up your sleeves, and let's get to work. Give Paradise Recovery a call: 866-478-9898. Let the transformation begin!

What is Codependency? Addicted to the Addict!

Have you ever had a need to be needed? Barbara Streisand said it, "People who need people...are the luckiest people in the world!" Well, sometimes.

Codependency is a dysfunction where you become enmeshed, entangled, obsessed and in fact, addicted to the person who is struggling with alcohol, drug, sex or gambling addiction. You lose yourself in the other! The codependent will rescue, protect, defend the addict, even when their own physical, emotional, or spiritual well-being is compromised. Many people feel codependency is a passive dynamic, au contrare, the codependent often will gain power by controlling the addict and manipulating them by using "get backs", empty threats, or become "the victim".

Just as alcoholism and drug addiction is a condition that requires treatment, so is codependency. Drug rehabs across the country treat people with codependency. Sometimes an alcoholic or addict will also struggle with codependency, since they may have been raised in an addicted family system.

If you feel that "helping" your loved one who may be an alcoholic or an addict, appears to be defining WHO you are, then you should be seeking help. Look at your own resistance to seek treatment...that may be a sign that you are a codependent. Your intentions are honorable, you probably even earned a purple heart in the battles you've engaged in over the addiction, but it should end. Your battling with your loved one over their addiction is not helping, not helpful!

If you are a codependent you are not helping your loved one. Let me repeat...if you are a codependent you are not helping your loved one! Run, don't walk to a CODA (Codependent Anonymous) or an Alanon meeting immediately. You need direction to find yourself, define your boundaries and figure out how to attract and maintain ADULT, MUTUAL relationships with others.

If you have any further questions, please call our 24-Hour HelpLine at (866) 478-9898.

Recuperatio Primoris! (Recovery above all else!)

Holistic Drug Rehab: A few considerations

When you are seeking treatment for addiction there are several types of alcohol and drug treatment programs. One type is public or state-funded rehab. They help many people with stabilization, 12-Step programs and group support. The second type is a private program that focuses primarily on getting you clean and sober with many group interventions. Both of these programs spend a great deal of energy imposing their beliefs and principles. Many people feel they've "failed" these programs, since it is difficult for an addict to ascend to such principles without doing the critical work of why they are being self-destructive in the first place.

The holistic rehab listens to you. You are the person who drives the treatment, instead of other programs that expect "program compliance". The holistic program is concerned about how the addiction affects all aspects of your life: emotional, physical and spiritual. The holistic program involves non-traditional therapies such as: massage, meditation, acupuncture, physical fitness, etc. The program is designed for YOU!

If you, or a loved one is seeking a holistic addiction recovery program, then call our 24-Hour HelpLine (866) 478-9898 and speak to one of our counselors in recovery!

Recuperatio Primoris! (Recovery above all else!)

The Art of Manipulation: An Addicts Tool

Manipulation is a classic tool that alcoholics and addicts use and a close cousin to denial and other cognitive distortions. It assists an addict to maintain their addictive behaviors. Manipulation gives the addict a false sense of power and control over others, while actually feeling insignificant and powerless. Working on thinking distortions is a major task in alcohol and drug rehab treatment.

Manipulation can either be subtle, or not so subtle. Often when an addict is trying to divert attention from his abuse to something other than their addiction, they often use manipulation (e.g. "borrowing" money from your family with the intent of buying drugs, while telling them you need the money for food and paying bills). Each time an alcoholic/addict is able to successfully manipulate a person, a system, etc., it delays any possibility for recovery and will permit the disease to progress. More subtle forms of manipulation employs power and control, often the person being manipulated doesn't realize it until much later.

The good news is that once you surrender and begin to take an inventory of past personal and social errors, including manipulating others, you can begin to practice more adaptive and healthy ways of interacting with others, without the substance or process addiction. Making amends to those people you manipulated can be both scary and freeing!

Choosing treatment, entering a rehab, is an excellent start towards recovery and becoming less and less manipulative. Some may say that people in recovery use "manipulation" to convince people into treatment and clean and sober living.

If you, or a loved one needs treatment for their alcohol, drug, sex or gambling addiction please call our 24-Hour HelpLine at (866) 478-9898.

Addiction not a personal failure

I read an article recently about a high profile religious figure who admitted he was an alcoholic and sought treatment in a 28-day rehab. He stated, "I've known I had a drinking problem for years, but just felt that I didn't have enough will power to stop myself. I saw it as a personal failure!"

Many people, until they admit they have an addiction, make their addiction a personal battle within themselves. This struggle is lonely, full of conflicts, and is most of all a losing battle! Addiction is complicated, with many core issues, needing professional and peer support to achieve success and sustained recovery. It is not a personal failure, but a disease that requires medical attention. Many diseases have stigmas: AIDS, Cancer, STDs, etc. Addiction is a disease with social stigma. We need not play into the stigma. Instead, seek help and manage the condition with persistence and courage.

Confronting your addiction and adopting an attitude of personal responsibility is the first step in fighting this progressive and deadly disease. Admitting you are an alcoholic, drug addict, sex addict, etc. will hopefully motivate you to seek the help necessary to stop the insanity of conflicts, lies and self-destruction. Making this disease your own and plowing through the issues that help to maintain your addiction will make all the difference. This is NOT failure!

To proceed in this personal battle will only reap self-hatred, loathing and possibly death! The failure would be neglecting the avenues of help in the community for you to address this disease affecting your life and the life of your loved ones. The failure would be doing nothing to stop the progression of this disease and participate in your own death.

Therefore, addiction is not the failure. The choice not to act and remain in denial and distorted in the addiction is the failure. If you, or a loved one has an addiction and needs help, please call our 24-hour HelpLine at (866) 478-9898 today!

Life is difficult. It is a great truth because once we truly see this, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

M. Scott Peck, M.D., The Road Less Traveled

Double Trouble: Treating the Dually Diagnosed in Rehab

More often than not, people suffering from an addiction will have co-occuring emotional stress (depression, anxiety, panic, etc.). It is hard to determine whether the emotional difficulty, or the addiction comes first. They certainly influence each other and acts as a risk factor for the addiction and the mental illness.

It used to be thought that a person could not receive psychotropic medications and be treated for mental illness and be considered "sober". Today, most clinicians and community leaders in recovery understand the need to treat the mental illness and they take medications as prescribed.

More and more AA and NA meetings are welcoming of people who are recovering from both an addiction and mental illness without judgment. The stigma that comes along with both an addiction and mental illness can seem extremely challenging for anyone seeking help. One way to diminish the fear is to connect with a professional who treats both addictions and mental illness. To locate meetings in the community that welcome dually-diagnosed folks.

Above all, keep the recovery lens focused on health and rejuvenation! The struggle is lifelong and the rewards of recovery and emotional stability are great!


Recuperatio Primoris!

Live Simply, So you May Simply Live!

When we think of simple living, images are evoked of a cool hippie commune, monks living on the generosity of others, Toyota Prius owners, or Martha Stewart...oh well, maybe not!

I know for sure that drug and alcohol abuse is NOT a simple-affirming lifestyle. The stories of addicts are woefully wrought with conflict, denial, minimization about the hurt feelings of others, and it goes on and on.

Deciding to enter treatment for addiction can be a choice to live more simply, so you may simply live! The addiction disease process is progressive and without attention will simply kill, so why not simply live!

Living Simply is choosing to focus one's life in continuous benefit to others and to self. It usually works that way. The more we give and have concern and act on the concerns for others, then it makes our self concern more tolerable. In a complex, often depressing world, to decide to live simply gives us the soul energy to both celebrate and battle whatever crosses our path. When we "aim high" and "play large", wrapped in gratitude, we can see how our life changes...it becomes more simple!


"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond all measure...it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us! We ask ourselves who are we to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous, who are we not to be, we are a child of God." Nelson Mandela, his inaugural address, 1994

Recuperatio Primoris
Dr. Bill Heran

Digital Social Networking: The Virtual Recovery Room

I am a definite neophyte when it comes to digital platforms for play and work. I am intrigued by the enthusiasm some of my friends have about "stumble upon", "digg", or "pod casts". I'm old enough to remember when computers were taking up very large, cold rooms at the University. Usually the folks in the computer labs were geeks, socially marginal and many times shy. It was far from being seen as social. It was hard work!

Well, thirty years have past since my freshman year at University and the computer has certainly changed since then. I can't imagine functioning on a day-to-day basis without the digital world.

As an addictions counselor, I am struck how the digital world could be a democratizing venue for alcoholics and addicts to come through the door towards recovery, without being judged and in an environment you are most comfortable! This type of social networking can lessen the stigma and exchange thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. without leaving your room or your phone.

I wonder what is happening out there in cyberspace for addiction recovery? Are people seeking treatment through their I-Pods? Would love to get some comments on this. Thanks in advance.

Recuperatio Primoris!
Dr. Bill Heran

Confront addiction from all sides

Remember reading about the Revolutionary War in your history books as a student? The British were terribly frustrated with American tactics because the Americans were not playing by the established rules of engagement. The established rules of engagement of the time were that the two armies would meet face-to-face, then on command they would begin shooting at each other. They would die in a nice, orderly fashion. Washington recognized early on that this was not going to work for the outnumbered, under-equipped American forces. Ambush attacks, splinter attacks, attacks from behind and attacks from the side were ordered.

We all know the outcome of the Revolutionary War.

Addiction treatment is its own battle. The drug rehab or alcohol rehab that you choose should attack addiction head-on. But attacks from every angle are important. We attack addiction through psychological means, psychiatric means, social means, physiologic means, neuro-chemical means, spiritual means, (and even neural means through a process of neurofeedback). It is attacked in group therapy, individual therapy and in the milieu. Addictive thinking is challenged. Underlying core issues are addressed. You see, addiction treatment is multi-faceted! That is a true holistic approach to addiction recovery.

With your life at stake, it is important to attack the disease of addiction from all sides. That is what a top drug rehab or top alcohol rehab should do.