It’s a simple fact of life: if you’re addicted to drugs, you’re most likely going to need rehab in order to get clean. Drugs and alcohol are simply much too good at re-wiring your body and brain with the overriding command to keep on using them, no matter what. You could actually want to stop using drugs, but your body seemingly won’t let you.
When addiction has you under its control, you need full-time residential rehab in order to detoxify your body and re-train your mind to live a drug-free life. While this is an absolute necessity, there is one problem – most rehabs can be very expensive. You can find some more affordable ones, but you want to make sure that they’re not skipping out on key services that need to be present in order to make the rehab effective. Here are several key services that an affordable drug rehab should provide.
Sauna Detox Program
The sauna program at Narconon Arrowhead is very different from sauna treatments at any other spas. A spa focuses on relaxation whereas Narconon Arrowhead focuses on rehabilitation and recovery.
What many people may not realize about drugs and alcohol is that the chemicals present in the drugs and alcohol deposit themselves in the body after each use. Even after a high, these chemicals will remain in the body. These residues are not detectable in a urine or blood test.
In life, even after successful withdrawal has been done, these residues are likely to reactivate the body’s cravings for the same drugs which were successfully withdrawn from. These cravings can come days, weeks, months and even years after a person has been sober.
The Narconon program removes these chemicals from the body through sweating in the sauna. This sauna program is combined with a nutrition program and an exercise regime which makes the process of sweating in the sauna more effective.
A Drug Free Life
In order to be more affordable, some rehabs will try to cut costs by not actually doing much to rehabilitate their clients. For example, many programs will give a heroin or prescription drug addict some form of replacement drug in order to lessen the symptoms of drug withdrawal. This is an exercise in futility, as it never actually gets the addict off drugs.
One of the key services of a good drug rehab is that it will be completely drug-free. Narconon Arrowhead is one such program. It does not allow addicts to use any drugs while detoxifying their bodies. This all-natural system allows addicts to find out what if feels like to live completely free of harmful drugs.
Life Skills Training
In order to help a drug addict stay clean after rehab is complete, you’ll need to change the way he thinks about life and the way he acts when he is in a situation where he could potentially use drugs again. In other words, it’s not enough to just get the drugs out of the addict’s body. You have to help him learn how to not use drugs again when he is in situations where he might have wanted to in the past.
In order to do this, Narconon Arrowhead provides all of its clients with valuable Life Skills training. These Life Skills courses cover such invaluable topics as how to determine whether the people in one's environment are likely to be supportive or antagonistic; how to restore elements of one's personal integrity which may have been lost in the trials of a life of addiction; and how to make good decisions to improve conditions. With these skills under the belt of every client, Narconon Arrowhead graduates typically go out into the world and remain drug free.
References:
Narconon Arrowhead: Drug Rehab Treatment Center http://www.narcononarrowhead.org/