Health Cost Soaring? Best Therapy For Addiction Still Affordable!
Posted 03-17-2009 at 10:41 AM by johnb
While most treatment programs and therapy for addiction carry a hefty pricetag, many people are unaware that the program that has proven to be the most effective in the world is quite affordable.
How about free? Alcoholics Anonymous and its many offshoots have demonstrated their effectiveness to be greater than programs like the Betty Ford Center and Narcanon, yet operate on the voluntary contributions of their members.
The vast majority of therapy/treatment programs are multifaceted, but strongly emphasize participation in AA or another 12-step program as imperative to recovery. Aftercare usually is founded on a regimen of meeting attendence and continued participation. As a veteran of several $10,000+ treatments, I personally feel that AA and the 12 steps was the "main active ingredient".
THE GREAT NEWS IS THAT IMMEDIATE, FREE HELP IS AVAILABLE TO ANY ALCOHOLIC, ADDICT, GAMBLER OR FAMILY MEMBER SEEKING HELP.
This resource is available at times and places convenient to all and no one that I know of has ever been turned away. Money is never the issue or a requirement to participate. Most in attendance toss a dollar or two in the basket that is passed if they desire, primarily to assure these meetings can continue.
Here are two links with further information:
For family members looking for help: http://www.alnwfl-al-anon.org/images/meetings/Districts/Dist15/meetings-D15.htm
Alcoholics Anonymous' website:
www.aa.org
How about free? Alcoholics Anonymous and its many offshoots have demonstrated their effectiveness to be greater than programs like the Betty Ford Center and Narcanon, yet operate on the voluntary contributions of their members.
The vast majority of therapy/treatment programs are multifaceted, but strongly emphasize participation in AA or another 12-step program as imperative to recovery. Aftercare usually is founded on a regimen of meeting attendence and continued participation. As a veteran of several $10,000+ treatments, I personally feel that AA and the 12 steps was the "main active ingredient".
THE GREAT NEWS IS THAT IMMEDIATE, FREE HELP IS AVAILABLE TO ANY ALCOHOLIC, ADDICT, GAMBLER OR FAMILY MEMBER SEEKING HELP.
This resource is available at times and places convenient to all and no one that I know of has ever been turned away. Money is never the issue or a requirement to participate. Most in attendance toss a dollar or two in the basket that is passed if they desire, primarily to assure these meetings can continue.
Here are two links with further information:
For family members looking for help: http://www.alnwfl-al-anon.org/images/meetings/Districts/Dist15/meetings-D15.htm
Alcoholics Anonymous' website:
www.aa.org
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Good thread of posts here, John. I appreciate your thoughts on the AA principles as an "active ingredient" within most effective treatment programs. This, I think, speaks to the fact that the founders relied upon good principles that are even more fundamental and compiled them wisely when crafting the AA concept. The irony is that something that's so valuable and yet essentially free has to be packaged in a way that seems "worth something" or else it gets no respect. Still, it's a tribute to the long-term value that those who benefit from such programs are willing to devote so much of their time and wealth to promoting it. I know that programs like the "Canaan Recovery Foundation" that you represent are based upon that kind of payback (and pay forward) that is inspired when true healing takes place.Posted 03-19-2009 at 10:21 AM by NHeditor
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