Changing the Environment as Drug Addiction Treatment

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Many people who are looking for a drug addiction rehab start with a search for facilities in their hometown. Often they’ll expand this search to inpatient facilities within their state. While this is better than just sticking to whatever happens to be available in your city, both of these approaches are folly.

Not even taking into account the fact that conducting a multi-state search for rehab will result in you having more options, there is also a technical and medical reason for you to do so.

External factors play an important role in an alcoholic’s or drug abuser’s addiction. The people that he has used with, and the places where he has used, are two factors that can’t be overlooked as contributing to a drug addicts problem.

Dependency on drugs and alcohol is not only a personal problem; it’s a social problem. There are people in the drug user’s environment that enable and contribute to his dependency.

What is more, drug users often abuse alcohol and drugs in order to mask a problem. They hit the bottle or get their fix whenever those problems rear their ugly heads. Often those problems originate from certain relationships in the person’s life. These relationships might be familial or personal.

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For example, he encounters the ex-girlfriend and is so stressed out that he runs to the bar for an episode of binge drinking. Or his parents come down hard on him again, and so he resorts to another line of coke to “relax his nerves”.

The most effective remedy for these environmental factors during the period of a drug addict’s treatment is to simply get the addict to completely remove himself from the scene.

Even inpatient treatment, when conducted in the client’s hometown or home state, is not totally effective in accomplishing this.

But by removing the person from his environment wholesale, you greatly increase his or her chance for recovery.

For more information about why people from all over the U.S. come to Narconon Louisiana for our drug addiction rehabilitation, call us at 1-800-473-0930.