Georgia Rehab Blog

Drug rehab isn’t glamorous or so I thought until I read about a place that describes itself as a luxury drug rehab program.  I assume it’s spectacular, but really, how important is the view or the linens or the food if the program isn’t effective. And most drug rehab programs unfortunately are not effective no matter how much you spend or how nice the diggs are. Maybe this luxury program is different. But if so, why was nothing mentioned about its effectiveness?

From our perspective as a professional drug rehab referral service, we  consider  drug rehab in Georgia program worthwhile if it works. If it frees the majority of its patients from addiction.  Our Clients don’t  have the luxury of going to a  grand facility with a  poor program. Addiction may not give them a second chance.

When looking for a drug rehab program, the only thing to consider is its effectiveness. 

Fritz Alders

Managing Partner, Georgia Alliance 

Michael Jackson was described by a well known spiritual guru recently as a controlled drug addict. I disagree. Drug addiction cannot be controlled. It cannot be managed. His abrupt death and that of Heath Ledger earlier reveals such a notion for what it is: an unproven theory put forth by many in the drug rehab and psycho-pharmaceutical industries.

These industries have failed to resolve the problem of addiction. Eighty per cent of addicts they treat relapse. By my reckoning, they should be the last to tell us how to treat addiction. Theirs should be the last advice you take.

Most drug rehab programs treat addiction as if it were a chronic disease. Something to be managed not cured. Which is where the psycho-pharmaceutical industry comes in. They supply the drugs to “manage” the addict’s “disease”. With only poor results to show for their work, it is fair to conclude that this is not the right approach.

The addict lives on the brink, careening down a path toward self destruction shot by shot, swallow by swallow, snort by snort. He’s lost control to such an extent that the idea his condition can be controlled is foolish. The job of a drug rehab in Georgia program is to get him off drugs for good, detox his body and so end his drug cravings, and then teach him how to confront and handle his life. His inability to handle life and the resultant poor choices he made led to drug addiction and must be resolved.

Fritz Alders

Managing Partner, Georgia Alliance

A newspaper reported recently that the meaning of rehabilitation as in drug rehabiliation is being looked at. Some experts feel it’s too much to expect an addict to permanetly quit abusing drugs. And so rehabilitation might mean something less permanent or that an addict might be considered rehabilitated even if he still needs drugs to handle his addiction.

I believe you get what you expect. If you expect less in terms of rehabilitation, you’ll get less too. Drug rehab in Georgia should mean that an addict is permanently freed of his addiction. Plain and simple.

Fritz Alders

Managing Partner, Georgia Alliance.

A friend of mine is a reformed alcoholic. He just celebrated 10 years of sobriety. As any reformed addict will tell you, quitting is far easier than staying sober. Bill quit drinking a number of times, but relapsed in each case until he did a 12 step program.

Naturally, my friend is a big advocate of the 12 step approach. When I asked him about the relapse rate among graduates of his program, I expected the number to be relatively small. After all, Bill is a regular guy blessed I assumed with no more self discipline and resolve than the next guy.

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But I must have been wrong. You see, Bill told me that few permanently quit drinking after going through a 12 step program. Just 5% make it to long term sobriety. Most relapse and once again become alcoholics.

With a relapse rate of 95%, why would anyone pick a 12 step program to treat their drinking problem? I believe most people have no idea of the high relapse rate of such programs and even if they do, they don’t have an effective alternative.

In such a case, ignorance is not bliss, but rather the wrong fork in the road that leads to nowhere but misery.

At Georgia Alliance we can help you find a program to treat drug or alcohol addiction that works. And with no cost or obligation to you. One program we regularly refer our callers to boasts a 70% rate of success, more than 12 times the program that Bill completed. There is effective drug rehab in Georgia, all you need is the right group to help you find it. I wish you much success in your endeavor.

Fritz Alders

Managing Partner, Georgia Alliance

One of the great tragedies of modern life is drug addiction. Millions of our friends and loved ones are addicts, hooked on drugs, some legal some not. In response to this growing problem, a huge drug rehab industry, a sort of psychopharmaceutical industrial complex, has been spawned. It sprawls across America promising what it has not yet been able to deliver: a cure to drug addiction.

Such a cure, though implicit in the very name drug rehabilitation, is belied by the high relapse statistic of those who’ve sought rehab.  Forty to sixty per cent of drug rehab graduates relapse. The question is why and who’s at fault for this dismal statistic? The patient or the program? Is the drug addict chronically sick or has he been treated by a chronically ineffective program?

Many in the drug addiction community: psychiatrists, drug manufacturers and treatment centers justify the high relapse statistic on a recently proposed theory that that drug addiction is a chronic disease on the order of diabetes, hypertension or heart disease. The theory seems plausible if one considers the statistics as an average. But how would such a theory explain a program that has relative few relapse victims?

And what evidence exists to support this “theory”? Chronic diseases can be tested for and verified. No such test exists to confirm that drug addiction is a disease.

Besides, if addiction is a disease and relapse a symptom, why try for a “cure” at all? Why put an addict through an expensive program if it’s doomed from the start?

In my mind, addiction is not an incurable disease, chronic or otherwise. It’s a condition which can be changed. Given the right treatment one can beat addiction for good. No relapse. A program we refer Clients to scores a 70% success rate. Such a low rate of relapse refutes the disease theory of addiction.

The disease theory deflects scrutiny from the real culprit: ineffective drug rehab programs. As long as the drug rehab profession can blame relapse on the patient rather than their program, they can excuse their failure to deliver what they promise.

Our purpose at Georgia Alliance is to help you find a drug rehab in Georgia program that works. Drug addiction is not a disease. You can hope for a full recovery with no relapse.

Fritz Alders

Managing Partner, Georgia Alliance