What is a biophysical drug rehab? The biophysical method combines biology and technology to help get a person off drugs and to help them maintain their sobriety. A biophysical drug rehab first has an intense detoxification program followed with rehabilitation treatment and training to ensure an addict doesn’t go back to his or her old habits.
Narconon Arrowhead is a biophysical drug and alcohol rehabilitation center and their program focuses on getting people off drugs healthily and naturally. There are no substitutions of other drugs or medications used in Arrowhead’s detox program. Instead the addict is taken off drugs in a natural and gentle manner and then given life skills to take back the reins and be in control of her own life again.
Intense Detoxification
The first step in getting clients off drugs and on the road to recovery is done through nutrition, exercise and a low heat sauna. When a person has been using substances for a long period of time, she depletes the good enzymes, minerals and fats that her body needs to function normally. By continuing to take the drug, they can trick their body into ignoring these problems.
The human body stores drug residues in its fat cells. Even after a person is off the drug and no longer feeling the effects of the drug, the residues remain and can cause the body not to function as well as it could. It can make one feel fuzzy in their thinking and cause them to react and think slower than bodies with no drug residues in them.
Narconon Arrowhead, through careful research, has developed a program that not only allows you to get off drugs, but to get rid of the residues in your fat tissues so you do not have to live hindered by drugs for the rest of your life. This program includes taking a variety of vitamins, mineral and oil supplements which help the body replenish its stores. The program also includes light exercise, which helps to get the circulation going. Sitting in a low heat sauna then allows the client to sweat out the toxic residues left behind in her body. [1]
Life Skills
The next step for Narconon Arrowhead is getting clients ready to re-enter the world. There is a high chance that before a user even started doing drugs, she was having some life issues that she could not handle by herself. She may have problems communicating, keeping her integrity or confronting her problems. These could cause her to revert to using drugs if left unhandled.
The Narconon Arrowhead program includes courses on these life skills in addition to the detoxification program. This way clients can get off of drugs and get the life skills they need to make better choices in the future.
Follow up
One of the most unique things about Narconon Arrowhead is the attention given to clients upon graduation. When clients begin their program at Narconon Arrowhead, they fill out an extensive questionnaire where they give multiple contact sources for Narconon to use to check up on them in case the client is unavailable. They use these contacts to see how the client is doing days, weeks and months after the rehabilitation program is complete. Narconon Arrowhead also uses this information to better improve their program and to provide statistical evidence of the effectiveness of their program. By having this system in place, countless lives have been improved by the Narconon program.
Sources:
Narconon Arrowhead: The Narconon Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Method http://www.narcononarrowhead.org/program/
Narconon Arrowhead: The Narconon Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Method http://www.narcononarrowhead.org/program/