HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 12 Step Tricks or Real Treatment? Which Are You looking For? If You Want Actual Treatment, Here’s How We’re Different From Every Other Program In The Country: 1. You’ll benefit from help based on the actual research on how people eliminate or moderate destructive behaviors; 2. You’ll have our help in attaining the [...]
Yes, we can help you leave your drinking problems behind, create a much better life, and create a present and future worth living. But we can’t do it for you, or to you. No myth is more destructive that the idea that somehow you can go off to treatment and effortlessly leave your alcohol problems [...]
Holidays are coming… When I was driving to San Diego on Friday I saw something that astonished me – A CHRISTMAS TREE LOT OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!!!! And of course the Halloween costume stores are open, as are the piles of pumpkins at every store in sight. What’s it all mean? That’s always a good question, [...]
“But I’ve been to the very best places….” That’s what last week’s caller wailed and she rattled off a list of widely recognized “programs” around the country. Hazenden, Cirque Lodge, Passages, Sierra Tucson. And, if the accommodations and view and pampering are the criteria, then, yes, they are “the very best places”. The trouble is [...]
“No, we’re sorry. We can’t do it for you, but we can do it with you.” That’s an answer we have to give to several callers a week. Though we don’t blame people for asking or hoping. After all, the treatment industry, like the diet industry, thrives on pretending that you can make major changes [...]
“But I can’t afford…” A caller said what many do – “I can’t afford to spend the money to fix the problem.” Even though the “problem” is about to cost you your marriage and career and has already screwed up your mental and physical health? If we were suggesting you spend $40,000 to $200,000 and [...]
Quitting or modifying your drinking? Success depends on who you surround yourself with – including where you look for help. Why? Simply put, your drinking problems exist within the context of your everyday life and no one influences that, or is affected by it, more than the people closest to you. When you change a [...]
A recent client commented on the difference between our website and the others he visited when he was looking for help. “It took me awhile,” he said, “and I’d almost given up. Then I found your site and it suddenly made sense. Everyone else was talking about the facility, the view, the beach, the mountains, [...]
Privacy and Confidentiality Your privacy and confidentiality are issues which any program should protect but which none of them do. So lets take a look at the factors that contribute and how we address them. First there are matters as small as a program’s duration. It’s pretty hard to disappear for 4, 6, or 12 [...]
Our 100th Issue!!!! Two years ago we sent out our first newsletter wondering how we’d ever find enough material to go beyond five or six issues. Now we don’t worry – ongoing research, questions from clients, callers, and readers, and articles from the various other newsletters, blogs, newspapers, and magazines keep us well supplied with [...]