The following article ran in the Los Angeles Times in November 2008. Since then Hired  Power has continued to grow in our thinking with regards to treatment experiences and the

length of time necessary to attain a lasting goal of sobriety and recovery. As an industry, I believe

we are moving to treat addiction as a chronic disease with a disease management plan. These plans may include an acute experience in residential treatment and are now focused on the long term view of the continuum of care.

 

Hired Power's mission and services are focused in disease management planning which often includes, Ongoing Case Management, Personal Recovery Assistants and Long Term Monitoring Services.

 

Please consider us to partner with you and your organization as we BRIDGE THE GAP between an acute treatment experience and a lasting long term plan for sobriety and recovery.

 November 10, 2008|Shari Roan | Roan is a Times staff writer.     

Treating addiction effectively, rehab centers are finding, is truly a matter of time. The longer the stay, the better chance for success.

We love quick, tidy solutions in this country. With health problems, in particular, we're impatient. Pills to ease each and every symptom? Great. Same-day surgery? Terrific. A scheduled cesarean section? Bring it on.

But in the case of drug and alcohol dependence, it's becoming increasingly clear that there is no such thing as get-well-quick therapy. Instead, with scientific evidence showing that the longer the treatment, the better the chance of lasting sobriety, addiction centers nationwide are lengthening their programs and firmly discouraging patients from early checkouts. For more than a year, the BettyFordCenter in Rancho Mirage has offered a 90-day residential treatment program, in addition to shorter programs, that attracts about one-third of all clients. PromisesTreatmentCenter in Malibu now provides more than half of its clients with 45- to 90-day treatments and last year extended its young-adults program from 30 days to 90 days.

Visions, which provides adolescents with addiction treatment in Malibu, increased its program's length from 30 days to 45. Hazelden, the legendary treatment program based in Minnesota, has added beds in nearly all of its facilities over the last two years to meet a growing demand for treatment programs of 90 days or more.

Addiction experts say that longer treatments -- with the length of stay based on the client's specific needs -- will lead to fewer people cycling between 30-day hospitalizations and relapses for years on end. From 40% to 60% of people relapse after drug treatment, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

"Treatment is dose-related," says Dr. Harry Haroutunian, director of the licensed professional program at the BettyFordCenter. "More is often better, depending on what you do with the time."

Treatment programs of 28 or 30 days are still common. But this template was never based on medical evidence, says Dr. David Lewis, Vision's medical director. Lewis, who in the 1970s helped establish the first addiction treatment program in the U.S. Air Force, says 30-day stays were scheduled for bureaucratic reasons -- men and women didn't need to be reassigned if they were away from duty for no more than 30 days. Other treatment centers followed suit, and insurers adopted the standard of 28 or 30 days of inpatient care.

Today, addiction experts recognize that it's foolish to treat every patient the same way.

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• Conduct ourselves with integrity and work withinCompany Values
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• Foster an internal environment of innovation, collaboration, and trust

In doing so, Hired Power will become our customers' partner of choice, our industry's leader of choice, and our community's resource for recovery services.

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We take responsibility for QUALITY...
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We provide LEADERSHIP as a company and as individuals...
HIRED POWER is founded on hand selected talented employees effectively applying ethical principals, high end quality services and sound business management. We each lead through our competence, creativity and teamwork.

We act with INTEGRITY in all we do...
We are each personally accountable for the highest standards of behavior, including honesty and fairness in all aspects of our work. We fulfill our commitments as responsible citizens and employees. We will consistently treat customers and company resources with the respect they deserve.

We value HIRED POWER'S PEOPLE...
We treat one another with respect and take pride in the significant contributions that come from the diversity of individuals and ideas. Our continued success requires us to provide the education and development needed to help our people grow. We are committed to openness and trust in all relationships.   

We regard our industry professionals and our service providers as essential team members...
We owe our industry professionals and treatment service providers the same type of respect that we show our customers. professionals deserve fair, equitable treatment, clear agreements and honest feedback on performance. Our customers, team members and referents(needs are considered when conducting all aspects of our business.