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Addiction treatment is experiencing a radical change due to neuroscience and a program called NeuroBehavioral Learning, which has proven to be far more successful at attaining positive results, ending the revolving door of treatment for many. If you ever need treatment, before you pay anyone, read this book!

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Date de parution	21 février 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781456601324
Langue	English

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Fly With Me I've Crashed Before
Why relapse is not "part of recovery" and how NeuroBehavioral Learning is changing that belief.
by
Dean Clement Kraemer
With contributions by
Robert Grove, Ph.D., Julie Madsen Psy.D. BCIAC and Rick Sautter M.S.

Copyright 2011 Dean Kraemer,
All rights reserved.

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To get right to the point, is there another $1.5 billion business besides addiction treatment with a 90% failure rate? Is there ANY business with a 90% failure rate still in operation?
Of course not. Yet, that’s the case with addiction treatment. There are far more failures than successes, sadly enough.
It doesn’t need to be. With the prices many residential and outpatient facilities charge, it just shouldn’t be. Yet it is and it continues.
Again, it doesn’t need to be. There are scientifically proven methods of treating addiction that are far more successful. This method centers on neurofeedback. Today, more and more facilities are finally incorporating neurofeedback. If you, or someone you love, is looking for treatment make sure your treatment program includes neurofeedback. There’s much more to know, so please read on. But I did want you to know that first.

Who is an Addict or Alcoholic?
What is the image you have when you hear the words drug addict or alcoholic?
Many people still get very old images of slimy guys on skid row or drug crazed criminals sticking people up to get drug money. Yes, that still is a percentage of the people who are drug addicts and alcoholics. That will likely always be a part of it. But it is much, much bigger and far different than that today.

More than ever before it is anybody. It’s celebrities, housewives and soccer moms, executives, sports legends, cops, doctors (lots of doctors), lawyers, kids. It’s your neighbors. It’s you.

I mention this because too often the “stigma” attached to addiction, the shame, prevents people from getting treatment. They’re afraid of what others will think. You have a problem. You need help. It’s that simple. Twenty million other people in this country have the same problem.

Let me repeat that: 20,000,000 people in this country suffer from addiction. And that number is climbing.

It is often associated with another mental disorder, of which 20% of the American populace suffers. So, there also, you’re not alone. Get the help you need. Just make sure it is, in fact, the help you need rather than the beginning of a revolving door of treatment.

There are more people getting addicted to medications that have been prescribed to them than ever before. This is a fast growing segment of the addiction treatment field. These are hardly crazed junkies. They’re people who had pain, or anxiety, or some other ailment they got medication for and then became addicted to that medication. Sometimes the medication makes them feel better and they want to feel even better still. So, they increase the dosage -- on their own . Unfortunately, many of these drugs are easy to get addicted to. So, it isn’t long before some people are seeing two doctors to get two prescriptions for the same drug, or finding other ways of procuring more. This kind of thing happens all the time. But in many cases it’s merely someone who has taken the prescribed dosage for so long that they now have trouble when it’s cut off. Here’s a prime example – someone who has been in the hospital for months receiving doses of morphine or other such pain killers who, upon being released, is handed a few Tylenol. It happens.

Our pharmaceutically oriented healthcare system is making junkies out of us.

Moreover, the illegal drugs available today are far more addictive than the drugs from only a couple of decades ago. Methamphetamine has crossed over from a party drug at west coast gay clubs into kitchens in middle America, where moms and their kids and husbands are scoring and getting instantly addicted. It is one of the most addictive substances ever produced and it is an epidemic. There’s a huge problem with addicted or alcoholic soccer moms today, you may have seen news coverage of it.

There are “behavioral” addictions today, as well. People are addicted to porn, to food, to sex, to gambling, to stealing.

Then there are still your garden variety alcoholics and heroin addicts, huffers, shooters, snorters, pill poppers, smokers, etc. It’s a rapidly expanding field. There are more drugs to do and more ways to do them. As society progresses we come up with new kinds of problems, disorders, and drugs to deal with them. So, while addiction treatment changes, addiction isn’t going away. It most likely never will.

Unlike the past, there is a genuine hope of success and a normal life for anyone suffering from alcoholism or addiction today. I wanted to state that because for the entire time that there has been addiction treatment, success, real success, has been elusive. As well intentioned as the majority of people are working in the addiction treatment field, the numbers simply aren’t there to support claims of success. At least they haven’t been historically.

The addiction treatment field today stands on the precipice of a major transition. It is, in large part, a field that has given birth to itself, born of the desperate need of those suffering from the affliction. In the old days, no one cared about these people, no one was interested in treating them, it was a moral issue to most. It is these early alcoholics and addicts who essentially started and have grown the field of addiction treatment. It’s not a field too many people have been interested in to date, frankly. Unless you are an addict/alcoholic or have one in your family or as a friend, you’re not likely to be interested in the field. It’s only recently become a course of study in colleges. Not that long ago you didn’t even need any kind of certification to work in the field. Most of the people who were counseling others were simply people who had managed to get sober themselves.

What has been missing for a long, long time is science. Real, credible, in-depth scientific research and answers to the treatment of addiction. Only recently, relatively speaking, has science truly entered the field. And, in most cases the science has been about what causes it, not necessarily about treating it -- though one does generally follow the other.

Science has now entered the picture in a big way. It brings real evidence of success. But there are still doubters, even in the treatment field. People who have been in the field for a long time have seen many “magic cures” come and go. I heard one clinical director say not long ago that it seems like every month there’s something coming across her desk that is the newest, biggest, bestest answer – the one everyone has been waiting for, the so-called “magic bullet”. As you’ll see, there have been a lot of those. Still, science has in fact presented us with an answer – or better, a part of an answer. But a very important part that no treatment center or program should be without. It can be the difference between real recovery and the revolving door of recovery and relapse, recovery and relapse, recovery and relapse.

One of the biggest problems anyone with an addiction -- or someone with a loved one who has an addiction -- has in seeking treatment is information. It’s mind boggling what’s out there. If you go to the internet and plug “addiction treatment” into your favorite search engine you’ll be amazed at what pops up. A lot of it pops up by design. There are places that spend thousands of dollars every month to insure placement on search engines. There are places that have dozens of websites so that they’ll come up many times, often appearing as different places or programs, on the same search. There are places that create websites that appear to be “independent” and “free” referral sources for people seeking treatment – but they’re not, they only refer you to -- surprise! – one facility; their own. Unless, of course, you don’t have any money and then they’ll actually refer you someplace else.

Is this ethical? Especially in what should be a very ethical business?

No. Particularly when you consider that many of these places were started by someone who not only went through recovery but also still goes to AA meetings, where the steps are pretty much all about integrity and honesty. There’s a bit of a conflict there. It’s shady and deceptive. The good people in the business know who the shady characters are. Unfortunately, you, the public seeking help, don’t. The good places don’t behave this way. But too often it’s the shady places that come up in your search first. So, beware. Really research, go way down the page to see who is there, look at a lot of places, go to the next page and the next. Get referrals from doctors and psychologists. See who the leading speakers and authors are in the field, and write them for a referral or visit their websites. Get in touch with addiction treatment associations, both national ones and state. Find out what colleges have an addiction treatment course of study and see who they recommend. Really research not only who is good, but what kind of program is good for your needs.

There are a lot of different ideas on what constitutes treatment, and what should comprise a treatment regimen, especially in a residential recovery environment. You will find “talk” therapy, meditation, yoga, equine therapy (yes, they use horses), wilderness therapy, medicinal/pharmaceutical therapies, etc. And you’ll find them in all kinds of co