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Quote of the Week
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers
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PAIN MANAGEMENT
WE TREAT THE DEPENDENCE AND THEN THE PAIN
Introducing our New Pain Management Track. We understand what you're going through and are here to help you. A dependency on prescription medication has become common in this country. It is estimated that today more than 4.7 million Americans are dependent on prescription medications. Whether it is a result of a physical injury caused by an accident, surgery, anxiety, or chronic pain caused by cancer or another disease, people from every walk of life are struggling with this problem. This is a problem that does not have any external signs. It is not something that is easily identified just by a looking at a person, and can affect anyone, anywhere; but we can help.
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Russian President faces tough challenges
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is faced with a daunting challenge. Medvedev has declared war on the country's addiction to alcohol, specifically the addiction to cheap vodka. At the beginning of this year, merchants in Russia had to start charging at least 89 rubles - or about $3 - for a half liter of vodka. Last year, Russians were paying only $1.70 for the same amount of vodka. This low price was fueling Russia's addiction to alcohol as well as crime and social problems.
Often Russians drink vodka like water. They believe that the drink helps them survive the country's harsh winter and frigid temperatures. It is the national drink, and, as a result, has created a huge problem for Russian leaders over the years.
Alcoholism is a serious problem in Russia. The average Russia drinks almost five gallons of pure alcohol each year. That amount is twice the amount the World Health Organization believes to be harmful.
Many believe that the new higher prices for vodka will not deter Russians from purchasing and drinking vodka. Melissa Tarling
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From the Desk of our Clinical
Director
The Treatment Center of The Palm Beaches is committed to give our patients the most up to date and progressive treatment in the nation. Our comprehensive approach which encompasses a holistic approach to treating co-occurring disorders. Many treatment centers offer this approach but what makes us exceptional is our amazing staff who have years of experience in the addiction field.
Marcie McMaster, LCSW CAP
Clinical Program Director
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A Word from Dr. Baker
Hope Exists
Today, there is significant hope that a person suffering from addiction can be released from its deadly grasp. Recovery from addiction is indeed possible with appropriate treatment and continued support. With continued research and available treatment options, the future of addiction treatment is vastly improving. If you or someone you know and love is suffering from the disease of addiction, it is important to know that help does exist. Although reluctant or unable to admit it, most addicts are in desperate need of assistance from an outside source, as they are most likely unable to quit using on their own. Hope does exist and recovery is possible.
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TGIF
Greetings
As we move through the second and final week of the 21st Vancouver Olympiad, we can say with enthusiasm they have been exhilarating and exciting. We have experienced breath-taking, death-defying gold, silver and bronze moments from athletes (20+ USA medals). With all the Olympic events soon to be recorded for posterity and history, we also saw moments when athletes literally hung on the edge of life and death.
Over the years our advanced medical and scientific technologies have improved our abilities to call back people from the dead who were seriously ill, experienced traumatic accidents and even flat-lined on the table. These men and women were resuscitated after thought or pronounced clinically dead. What is most fascinating for those who remembered the event are 9 common stages of a near death experience (NDE):
- Feelings of profound peace and calm
- Out of the body
- Moving through a tunnel or passageway
- Meeting loved ones
- Encountering the Being of Light
- Review of life with out being judged
- Border of limit and or no return
- Coming back or being sent back to complete mission
Moreover, there are thousands of others who had a NDE but don't remember due to anesthesia blotting out memory or young age. They, with people who can recall, had a life-changing, mind-transforming NDE evidenced by 8 significant common indicators. Their attitudes, behaviors, and lives are different but they never CONNECT these dots to a NDE. All 8 Indicators are consistently experienced in common with all NDER'S - regardless of religion or no religion, believer or non-believer, cultural and age differences. The 8 indicators are:
- New appreciation and love for life... an insatiable appetite or passion for living, seeing, experiencing as much as life ahs to offer.
- Heightened awareness, interconnectedness, solidarity with all life and the ability to sense things in others or transparent vision.
- Desire to devote their life to a profession or vocation in service to others that make a meaningful contribution to life.
- No fear of death yet not wanting to die but live as fully as possible.
- Sense of belonging to and getting along with all ages, groups, etc. while ever avoiding cliques.
- Being repulsed by violence and ever wanting to avoid and or stop a fight.
- Being described as an old spirit and or befriending older people.
- Advocating for the underdog and victimized.
These attitudes and behaviors portray deep inner convictions and a lifestyle of a NDE'R who never identified their transformed attitudes and behaviors with nearly dying.
So this TGIF weekend, let us be mindful and grateful life is more than material; embrace our spiritual identity. Then treasure our communion and interconnectedness with Mystery-Presence and others - as fellow sojourners transitioning to divine realms that never end.
P.S. NDE and the 8 Indicators should not seem odd or sensational for one who believes life is eternal - just comforting and reassuring!
Ron
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Derek
This week I'm having some major problems with my car. I don't know what's wrong with it but it is making a terrible noise, a running really rough. During my active addiction, I would have ignored this, and just driven the car right into the ground and figured it out later. But, now that I'm sober, this really is no big deal. I have a job, so I will be able to pay to get it fixed, and I have friends and a support group, so I will have no problem getting around while it is in the shop. This would have turned into a major crisis just a few short years ago. Sobriety affects all parts of your life, whether you realize it or not. If you want and need to make a change, please call us and we will help you back on the right track. |
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COOP'S CORNER
Self-Esteem and Drug Abuse
When a person is in treatment for alcohol or any other substance, receiving therapy and counseling is very important to recovery. Besides the dual-diagnoses aspect, many addicts have low self-esteem and feel very poorly about themselves. A lack of confidence combined with self-hatred can make the recovery process difficult. One of the things that individual and group therapy do to help those in recovery is help the addict to try to understand why she started to use in the first place. Often there is a combination of poor self-esteem and several other factors.
By increasing a person's self-worth, the addict will begin to see hope instead of feeling despair. The guilt that is felt will start to go away and the addict will have a better chance at sobriety outside of treatment. Many studies have found that even young children, 11 years old, have a greater chance of using drugs if they have poor self-esteem. Being unhappy with oneself can lead to many problem and drug abuse and addiction is one of the main ones.
Many addicts began using substances because they believed that they could never fit in with their peers, or felt unloved or rejected by family members. The 12 Steps of AA offer a blueprint for improved self-esteem; helping us identify and acknowledge our character defects and trust in a higher power to empower us to become the people that we want to be. Therapy is also helpful as we explore how these character defects have functioned as defense mechanisms against pain that we don't know how to handle.
Self esteem is a crucial component of recovery, Increasing the self-esteem of users will help them in their battle against addiction. If the user feels that he or she can stay sober, the chances of success increase.
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CEO'S DESK
You have been reading about the Alumni program Tony Martino runs for us. There is another side of Alumni...former patients who unfortunately relapse and need treatment again. About 20% of our patients today are Alumni. We always welcome them back and offer our help again. Returning to treatment after relapse is an opportunity for an Alumni to learn about what may have triggered the relapse and work on those issues with us. It is also an opportunity for our Clinical Team to try different strategies to help the patient. Alumni are always welcome at The Treatment Center!
Bill Russell CEO The Treatment Center
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ALUMNI NEWS
During the very beginning of my recovery, I didn't think it was possible to have fun while being clean and sober. I thought I needed some kind of substance to make me happy. In all reality, the drinking and drugs were making me absolutely miserable. When I pictured living clean and sober, I imagined a miserable old man in a smoke filled AA room complaining about life with little to no joy in life. I couldn't have been further from the truth. The people I meet in recovery are happy, joyous, and free. They have a new thirst for life and everything it has to offer.
During my first few months of recovery, my opinion was, "If I can't have fun while being clean and sober, what is the point?" I took it upon myself to make sure I found things that I enjoyed doing to keep myself busy. I grew incredibly close to the people I was in treatment with and the people I lived with in my halfway house. I would schedule scavenger hunts, golfing, playing sports, going to the movies, walking aimlessly around south Florida, or spend nights sitting outside telling stories. These were some of the greatest times of my life. I have never smiled or laughed so hard in my life. In my addiction, I was in constant physical and mental pain. Now I wake up every morning happy, joyous and free.
Tony Martino Alumni Coordinator 215.896.7859 Tmartino@thetreatmentcenter.com |
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MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is to restore hope. At The Treatment Center we recognize
the value of every person, and are guided by our commitment to deliver
the highest quality of treatment to addicted and dual-diagnosed individuals.
We accomplish this by providing exemplary physical, emotional and
spiritual care for each of our patients and their families. Our goal is
to provide the highest standard of personalized patient care possible
to those suffering from drug addiction, alcoholism, and co-occuring
mental health disorders. The Treatment Center is a place of healing;
we restore the diminished spirit using a holistic multi-disciplinary
approach to treatment in a loving and supportive environment. | |
