Archive for September, 2010

Lindsay and Paris – What Role Models!

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Wow.  These two young women are such shining examples as role models for girls in this country.  Apparently they don’t get it, and their need for self-destruction is greater than their need for survival.  With Lindsay’s latest blunder of failing a drug test right after being released early from treatment, and Paris’ guilty plea for cocaine possession in Las Vegas, it makes me wonder if they will ever get their acts together. 

People (and most doctors, too) often underestimate the need for a long-term drug rehab that works, and offer too many chances to fail with light punishments, short-term inpatient rehabs or even outpatient treatments.  The most effective approach, according to The New Face of Recovery, is a long-term, drug-free non-disease-based treatment that promotes personal responsibility and doesn’t give more drugs to addicts.

Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month 2010

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Each year in September National Recovery Month is celebrated throughout the country by treatment professionals, recovery advocates, former addicts, family members and others as an observance that real recovery is possible.

However, The New Face of Recovery has recently publised an addiction recovery book that has a new twist on the old celebrations – that addiction is NOT a disease and that people can and do permanently recover without relapse.

The theme for this year’s National observance is “Now More than Ever” and events are being held all month long across America.  It’s time to end the false idea that addicts are diseased for life and that they must stay “in recovery” forever.  Join the growing number of people denouncing the prescription-driven disease theory and help restore responsibility and accountability in the treatment industry.