Lifestyle Changes recently introduced an innovative holistic approach to addiction treatment: HEALTHY HEALING ADDICTION TREATMENT PROGRAM. While developing the contents of the HEALTHY HEALING PROGRAM NIDA’s 12 principles for effective addiction treatment were also considered:
1.Clients to be matched to the most appropriate treatment setting, intervention, and services
2.Readily available
3.Needs to attend to multiple needs of the individual including associated medical, social, psychological, vocational, and legal problems
4.Treatment must be an adequate period of time for effectiveness
5.Combine individual and/or group counseling and other behavioral therapies
6.Medications when indicated
7.Integrated treatment of coexisting mental disorders
8.Detoxification as first stage of treatment
9.Voluntary, as well as, enticements and/or sanctions by family, employment, criminal justice system are means to treatment
10.Monitoring of possible drug/alcohol use during treatment
11.Assessment for sexually transmitted diseases
12.Stressing that recovery is a long-term process
Learn more about this innovative approach at
http://www.lifestylecounseling.com
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