Don't Buy Into the "Disease" Theory of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

For more than 50 years around East St. Louis, Illinois and across the world, alcoholism (and more recently drug addiction) has been touted by "experts" as a life-long affliction, a "disease" that can never be cured.

This preposterous idea is just a theory that has never been proven. In spite of the fact that not a single scientific study has been able to show that alcoholism or drug addiction is a disease, most drug rehab and alcohol addiction treatment programs still tell addicts that they have a disease and that will affect them for the rest of their life.

This is not our philosophy at Narconon Arrowhead.

Of the approximately 11,000 drug addiction rehab centers in the country, Narconon Arrowhead stands out as a leader through its individualized drug-free rehabilitation program. Narconon's drug rehab program is also varied in length rather than a fixed time period because addicts are just people, and no two people are the same.

There are drug rehab treatment and counseling facilities serving people in East St. Louis, Illinois that are suitable for your needs, so please call 1-800-468-6933 right away for more information.

Treatment Programs Can Be Tough to Evaluate

There are hundreds, if not thousands of different types of alcohol addiction and drug rehab and treatment programs. When choosing a drug rehab center for yourself or a loved one from East St. Louis, Illinois, it is important to become educated on the different types of drug rehab and what the end results are.

Types of drug rehab programs include detoxification, outpatient counseling, short-term inpatient treatment (30-day program) and long-term residential treatment (longer than 60 days). Within these there are also medical models that use substitute drugs in the treatment process and there are drug-free programs that do not prescribe more drugs to addicts. Most drug rehab centers serving East St. Louis, Illinois have some type of aftercare or follow-up program as well.

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