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A Success Story from a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facility

I came to Narconon Arrowhead's drug and alcohol treatment center with an alcohol problem. I have completed this drug and alcohol program with a chance and choice to have an alcohol-free life. I did not know before I came here how much I would benefit from a drug rehab program like this. It has been life-changing for me. The books and sauna have given me the tools and knowledge to better every aspect of my life. The technology can do this for everyone. I am happy to have and carry with me everything and more. I can now have the best drug and alcohol-free life ever! K.D.

Augusta, Maine Drug Rehab Information

Augusta, Maine Drug Rehab and Alcohol Addiction Treatment Information

Substance Abuse Costs Lives Every Year in Augusta, Maine

Substance abuse is the nation’s number one health-related problem and the effects can be seen in Augusta, Maine . 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 Augusta, Maine that are suitable for your needs, please call 1-800-468-6933.

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Drug Addiction Recovery and Addiction

Drug Addiction Recovery
True and lasting drug addiction recoveries involves handling the three factors that lead up to and then continue addiction. These three factors are 1. The cravings, mental and physical for the drugs and/or alcohol; 2. The guilt that comes from the lifestyle of addiction and the things done to loved ones that haunt us; and 3. The depression that comes from reduced health, lack of self-control, broken lives and relationships, as well as financial and criminal burdens. Unless these three factors are fully addressed and fully resolved there is little chance of lasting drug addiction recovery. There really are only three options when it comes to drug or alcohol addiction – jail, death, or sobriety. Narconon can return you or your loved one to a drug free productive life of sobriety.

 

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Outpatient Rehab and Addiction

Outpatient Rehab
An outpatient rehab is a drug treatment facility where the individual goes for treatment and then returns home at the end of the day. It could be the personal goes for a counseling session, or perhaps a seminar. All day seminars are often used as well. These offer viable services for those with a lighter abuse problem or as a starting point for full treatment. One thing that should be watched for in medical outpatient rehabs is the use of additional drugs in a mistaken attempt to handle the current drug problem, such as methadone. For most with a serious drug abuse and addiction problem an impatient and more long term treatment program is more effective, though outpatient treatment can be a good beginning if chosen carefully.

 

Drug Effects and Addiction

Drug Effects
Each drug of course can and does create its own effects. With all the substances available today the list of effects can be staggering. There are common denominators to drug abuse and addiction however. Those who start down the path of addiction begin to accumulate so much damage to their physical and mental selves and their lives that the quality of their lives in general deteriorates. If drug or alcohol abuse continues unchecked, eventually the person is faced with so many unpleasant circumstances that each sober moment is filled with despair and misery. All this person now wants to do is escape these feelings by medicating them away. This is the downward spiral of addiction.For most addicts, there are only three possible outcomes: sobriety, prison or death.

 

Addiction Recovery and Addiction

Addiction Recovery
At Narconon Arrowhead we apply the word recovery in its fullest sense. We do not operate under the false assumption of once an addict, always an addict. Recovery means to return to a normal state or an improved state following a setback or loss; it also means gaining back something lost. Narconon Arrowhead specializes in addiction recovery which leads to a drug free productive life for a lifetime. Getting the drugs fully out of the body (not just withdrawal), handling the factors of cravings, guilt, and depression so often accompanying and adding to addiction, and the gaining of skills and abilities are all factors leading to full addiction recovery. There is a definite difference between a program that stops drug use, but leaves the underlying reasons untouched, and a program that leads to recovery in the fullest sense of the definitions above.

 

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