Georgia Rehab Blog

In my experience, the rich do get richer. In business, it’s easy to see why. They have extensive resources. They can afford expensive marketing; smaller businesses can’t. The little guy may have the better product, the proverbial better mousetrap, but  few will beat a path to his door if they don’t know the way or that he even exists for that matter.

And so it is with drug rehab in Georgia. A drug rehab center’s success results often from its powerful marketing rather than from having an effective drug rehabilitation program. Big centers with big budgets win in the fight for business even if the smaller centers and less well known programs offer clearly better treatment.

Every business must make a profit to at least to survive. That’s true. But not every business must satisfy its customers to make it.  This might seem inherently illogical, because with most businesses the opposite is true. A restaurant, for example, is only as good as the last meal it served. It depends on repeat business and referrals to make a profit. That’s its business model.

A drug rehab center, on the other hand, may work on a different business model. It does not depend on repeat business, nor on referrals.  After all, the family doesn’t want everyone to know that Johnny has a problem with drugs, right? And the profit, and there’s a lot of it, is built into the first visit. Which, by the way, will probably be the only visit. You see, most Centers fail their patients, with only one in seven remaining drug free over time.

Drug rehab centers survive largely because of the law of supply and demand for drug rehab. There’s not much supply, and there’s a huge demand for it. With effective marketing, the powerful psychiatric centers, the big players in the drug rehab industry, channel the demand into some of the least effective programs. This threatens the survival of smaller centers who can show more impressive results. The sheer cost to duplicate their marketing hinders competition and ensures continued dominance of the big players. 

Most of the drug rehab centers which people see on t.v. or the internet or hear about on the radio get poor results which ironically works to their benefit. People desperate for help don’t really have a choice as long as they don’t find out about other more effecitive programs. Kind of a what you don’t know won’t hurt them.

There is effective drug rehab available to you in Georgia, but it can be hard to find without the help of professionals, like Georgia Alliance. We’ve done an extensive analysis of the programs available in this area and know which ones work.

Fritz Alders,

Managing Partner Georgia Alliance

This is a story about a young woman who worked for me, her struggle with cocaine addiction, and and how she found effective drug rehab.

Since she has a unique name in real life, I’ll call her Cindy. Who knows… you might come across her one day-she stands out in a crowd-and I wouldn’t want her image to be influenced by her past. 

Cindy and her sister Ann came to be just before Christmas a couple years back.  We worked in a large apparel distribution company in Atlanta. They were crying. I was alarmed. I’d never seen them cry before. “What’s going on?”, I asked. I suspected a breakup or something along those lines.

“Cindy has a problem with cocaine and it’s getting worse”, Ann blurted out. Well, that explains a lot of things, I thought to myself. The constant nervousness, the inability to keep her attention on her work, the emotional swings. And the money problems. All of it was due to her cocaine problem.

I had handled just about every kind of employee issue before. But not hard core drug dependency. I wasn’t sure what to do.

I knew people who’d been to rehab. And that’s why I didn’t know what to do. You see, traditional rehab failed every one of them. They were either back using street drugs in no time; or were taking brain altering psychiatric medication which can be dangerous. 

I never understood the idea of treating a drug addiction with drugs. Many psychiatric programs take this approach. It doesn’t really solve the problem for one (their abysmal track record proves my point). And at best, a patient is converted from a User of hardcore illegal drugs to a User of hard core legal drugs.

The legality doesn’t, however, make the drugs any less dangerous to the body and mind. Besides what kind of lesson do you teach an addict when you put him on drugs to handle his problem. Doesn’t this confirm that he can’t handle life without drugs? How discouraging!!

I told Cindy and her sister what I thought of traditional rehab. It made sense to them. Ann’s former boyfriend is a heroin addict. He’s been through four programs and now lives on the street, a hollowed out shell of his former self.

God what a nightmare this day was turning out to be. Fortunately, Ann not only had the problem, she had the answer too. She’s a real go getter, one of the top sales reps in our industry. She checked out a number of places, and asked the hard questions, for example, what percentage of patients remain drug free a few years after they’ve finished a program. 

Most Centers admitted that as few as 1 in 7 actually kick the habit for good. She was shocked and continued to look beyond the well advertised sites she found on the internet.

Ann remembered about a drug free approach I told her about she came to me regarding her boyfriend’s problem. In the end, he chose a different Center and a different approach (they treated his addiction with methodone), and the rest is history as they say.  

She called Narconon, the program I had mentioned. She liked what she heard. “They get terrific results, Fritz.  I really think they can help Cindy”, she cheerfully told me.   

Cindy was treated at one of their Centers for about four months. What a difference. When she came back to work, she looked terrific. Her skin. Her hair. Her smile. They radiated health and confidence. She was energetic, positive and focused. In no time, Cindy became one of my top Reps. 

I’m no longer with the Company, but I check up on her from time to time. I just saw her in fact the other day. It’s been 3 years since Cindy finished her Narconon program. She’s still on top of the world. She went back to college to complete her degree. And is going to nursing school in the Fall. Cindy got her life back and then some.

I became a Managing Partner at Georgia Alliance last year, frankly because I wanted to create happy endings in more people’s lives. Ours is a free service, but the results can be priceless. Cindy is a good example of what happens when you find right drug rehab program for someone you love.

Have a wonderful day,
Fritz Alders 

Managing Partner, Georgia Alliance

I’ve known quite a few social drug users in my day. Most fell far shy of their potential in life. The sad truth is that even if treated for their addiction, they might not have been helped.

You see, many drug rehab Centers, the ones for example which consider drug or alcohol addiction to be a brain illness caused by a chemical imbalance, will admit that just one patient out of seven or eight patients treated at their facility quits using drugs permanently. Just terrible.

The failure stems from their inability to get the drugs out of a User’s system, so he continues to be saddled with cravings. Instead the user is taken off his drug of choice, and put on one of their own. These prescription, psychiatric medications have powerful but unpredictable effects on the brain. Unpleasant and often dangerous physiological side effects are an inevitable consequence of this approach to drug rehab.

By using drugs to treat drug addiction, the User is also taught that drugs is the answer to life’s problems. Which is the very lesson that got him or her into trouble in the first place.

We do not refer our Clients to psychiatric programs such as the type I’ve briefly described. We prefer a faith based approach or a biophysical program which removes the drugs from the User’s system through a full body, deep cleansing detox, and cures three to five times the number of patients treated and for a significantly lower cost.

That’s my take. I hope you’ll take our free advice and use it for the good of your loved one and family. I wish you well.

Fritz Alders

Managing Partner, Georgia Alliance