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d7e31fd You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever. depression inspiration inspire addiction-disease alcohol-disease rehab-centers drug-addiction rehab healing-addiction alcohol-addiction-treatment alcoholics-anonymous addiction alcohol-rehab dependency alcohol-addiction passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu addiction-cure addiction-treatment-center chris-prentiss alcoholism alcoholism-addiction-recovery disease alcoholic self-help Chris Prentiss
311c114 If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse. withdrawal drug-addiction relapse non-12-step alcohol-addiction addiction-and-recovery passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu chris-prentiss alcoholism Chris Prentiss
d73db23 Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain. drug-addiction alcohol-addiction pax-prentiss addiction-cure addiction-treatment alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss drug-abuse Chris Prentiss
bf3f574 Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society. change philosophy substance-addiction drug-addiction non-12-step-program 12-steps alcohol-addiction passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss drug-abuse treatment alcoholism society recovery Chris Prentiss
5f0bd61 It's the causes, not the dependent person, that must be corrected. That's why I see the United States' War on Drugs as being fought in an unrealistic manner. This war is focused on fighting drug dealers and the use of drugs here and abroad, when the effort should be primarily aimed at treating and curing that causes that compel people to reach for drugs. depression drug-war war-on-drugs alcohol-rehab drug-rehab drug-rehab-center dependency alcohol-treatment-center passages-ventura pax-prentiss substance-abuse passages-malibu chris-prentiss drug-abuse Chris Prentiss
21e1d72 There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms. depression sadness medical-research medical-treatment wellbeing pax-prentiss passages-malibu chris-prentiss Chris Prentiss
2982823 Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes. confidence addictions-treatment-centers alcohol-disease cure-addiction overcome-addiction rehab-centers addiction passages-rehab passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu addiction-treatment chris-prentiss healing-abuse healing-trauma healing alcoholism disease change-the-world self-image Chris Prentiss
b9dc24b "People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch." science holistic-treatment passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu chris-prentiss alcoholism alcoholism-addiction-recovery health Chris Prentiss
81b645c We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you use substances to alter your mood, to cover up your sadness, to ease your heartbreak, to lighten your stress load, to blur your painful memories, to escape your hurtful reality, or to make your unbearable days or nights bearable. pain live memories sadness heartbreak life holistic-rehab holistic-treatment-center holistic-therapy holistic-treatment holistic-health dependency non-12-step passages-ventura pax-prentiss substance-abuse passages-malibu addiction-cure addiction-treatment-center alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss drug-abuse heartache survival Chris Prentiss
db14a86 To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing. change philosophy recovering-addict passages-treatment rehab holistic-treatment passages-rehab non-12-step life-improvement passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu addiction-treatment alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss healing-abuse healing alcoholism therapy alcoholic recovery self-help Chris Prentiss
0db7694 One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of any mind- altering or mood-altering medications that our clients are taking. As soon as any non essential drugs are out of their systems, the feelings they were trying to suppress usually emerge. When that happens, we can see what symptoms the client was masking with drugs or alcohol. depression drug-addiction alcohol-addiction-treatment drug-addiction-treatment holistic-treatment holistic-health non-12-step alcohol-addiction passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu addiction-treatment addiction-treatment-center alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss drug-abuse quotes Chris Prentiss
bf1403e If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That's the primary reason there is such a high rate of relapse among people who have become dependent of alcohol and addictive drugs. It has little to do with alcohol and addiction themselves and almost everything to do with the original causes that created the dependency. ecstasy prescription-abuse prescription-drugs dependency alcohol-addiction addiction-and-recovery alcohol-treatment-center passages-ventura pax-prentiss substance-abuse passages-malibu chris-prentiss drug-abuse alcoholism self-help heroin Chris Prentiss
5d9006e The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, or if they put bubbles in an ethanol product and call it champagne or beer- everyone is selling ethanol. beer ecstasy prescription-abuse prescription-drugs dependency alcohol-addiction addiction-and-recovery alcohol-treatment-center passages-ventura pax-prentiss substance-abuse passages-malibu chris-prentiss drug-abuse alcoholism self-help wine heroin Chris Prentiss
d7dcbf3 We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed. pain drug-war headaches rehab root-of-addiction war-on-drugs holistic-treatment pax-prentiss passages-malibu chris-prentiss healing remedies Chris Prentiss
0633b56 We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging. alcohol-rehab drug-rehab dependency passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu addiction-treatment-center alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss drug-abuse recovery Chris Prentiss
acc2ce3 When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help others discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free. holistic-health passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu chris-prentiss alcoholism Chris Prentiss
6b23c21 The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I'm aware. depression addiction alcohol-rehab chris-prenitss drug-rehab drug-rehab-center non-12-step alcohol-treatment-center pax-prentiss substance-abuse drug-abuse Chris Prentiss
cfd16b5 "How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that "once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict" and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?" holistic-health holistic passages-rehab passages-treatment-center wellbeing wellness non-12-step zen-and-the-art-of-happiness passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu chris-prentiss treatment therapy Chris Prentiss
9f014d1 Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars. alcohol-addiction passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu chris-prentiss alcohol Chris Prentiss
08d5137 If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The reason alcoholism no longer sounds silly to you is because you're used to hearing it, reading it, and thinking about it. inspiration wisdom addiction-and-recovery alcohol-treatment-center passages-ventura pax-prentiss substance-abuse passages-malibu alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss alcoholism Chris Prentiss
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