Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Sober Living For Men And Women

sober pacific livingDo your relative or friend is an alcoholic or a drug addict? Are you having a hard time to find a suitable rehabilitation for them? Sober pacific living is for you. Sober living is located at the Dana Point, California, near the Pacific Ocean. This is perfect treatment for the alcoholic and drug abuser person. The sober living homes offer each patient a bedroom with a plasma T.V., a wireless internet access with lop top, a fire place, private yard and a beautiful view of the ocean.

The services includes free transportation, onsite chef to assist in meal planning, access to 24-hour fitness gym, access to over 100 12-step meetings per week. The sober living will help the patient to fight there addiction on dugs and alcohol.

Men’s sober living

The men’s sober living facilities are similar to apartment or dormitory where all of the people are men who are involved on healing from addiction. A strong brotherhood is developed for they work together as a one community. They use the skills they learn in the treatment to help others to recover. Some ex-addict male, who had already recovered and healthy, are now active in the community to help their brothers to recover fast. They help the addicts develop an ability of responsibility and independence.

Women’s sober living

The women sober living facilities are similar to apartment or dormitory where all women are involved on the treatment of addiction. The skills they learn in the treatment will also help others to recover. Same as men, women also here develop an ability of responsibility and independence. The women here have the power to become strong and this is the best place to start a new life and journey.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Drug And Alcohol Interventions

Intervention is a term used when a traumatic event is involving addiction to dugs, alcohol, and etc. The main objective of intervention is to confront a person and allow him/her to see his/her wrong behaviors, how these behaviors destroy and affect him/her, friends, family and etc. It undergoes one or more counseling sessions; one is an education of the effects of drinking or drugs, asking questions, creating goals for the change of behavior, and etc.

Drug intervention is a discussion with other people about getting someone to seek professional help. It can be a doctor or a drug interventionist of someone to discuss your observations. It can also be people who are significant to the patient to directly talk to him/her.

Alcoholism intervention includes alcoholism treatment program. It includes confrontation of family, friends, and etc to the alcoholic about how alcohol is a problem in their lives and let him/her know how they feel and how it affects them.

With all these interventions, there will be more chance that the alcoholics and the drug addicts can recover from their behavior. With just counseling, confrontation, and discussion, the chances of recovering will be better.