Must Be Willing to Surrender
In rehab I learn that 5% of the problem is the drugs and alcohol and the other 95% is me. I also learned that to stay clean and sober we need to keep that tiger asleep. Because once we wake him up we…
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Medication Helps With the Drug Withdrawals
Being able to talk to someone about your problems without getting looked down upon, and being able to get the medicine you need. People don't understand that drugs like heroin have physical withdrawa…
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Strict Structure Helped My Recovery
Structure. The program is all about structure, and in order to get my life back, I had to develop structure in my life. All the structure and rules that are set up by the program, it isn't just so th…
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I Wasn't the Only One With a Problem
Oakdale taught me that I wasn't the only one going through the drug problems that I had. The NA meetings really helped me learn a lot. I also learned that I could start to trust people again. The sta…
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I Learned to Cope With the Disease
To understand my behavior. That there is always a solution as long as I keep working at my recovery. I have been sober since March 26, 2005. I was a resident of the Villa in 1998, however I had a rel…
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Peer Support and Structure Helped
The most helpful feature was forced abstinence, peer support, and structure. Having daily chores taught me humility. Being isolated from family and friends and all my electronics (no phone, iPod, TV,…
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Learning What Was Inside Me
For me the most helpful feature was the fact that we were not taught about drugs, we already knew that. Once that took root, the sky is the limit. I am now a certified peer counselor working with peo…
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Every Aspect of Rehab Is Helpful
I got a lot out of most every aspect. My sessions with my chaplain, individual and group therapy and whole group classes. So many things about it helped me and the tools I got from rehab has helped m…
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Rehab Saved My Life
I learned that I wasn't alone anymore. That I was a liar before drugs. I learned that it takes work to stop. But it's worth fighting for. It gets easier one hour at a time. I now have to hate drugs t…
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Gave Me a Foundation for Recovery
The tender loving care and the way they treated me was awesome. They treated me like a human not like I had boo boo on me - that's what I was used to. I never had received love growing up, just abuse…
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Treatment Can Save Your Life
The structure of everyday classes. They have about 8 or so classes that u attend daily and those classes taught me how to take care of myself and to fight my addiction. They gave me the tools needed …
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They Gave Me Tools I Still Use Today
Growing up for me was like living by myself. As a child I had no real honest structure. Parents were both on drugs and grandma was my hide out away from drama. I was a pest in school until the 6th gr…
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Learning Coping Skills Helped Me Quit Drugs
The coping skills they taught us in class are amazing week in and week out. They teach you these coping skills and they work. My life is drug free for the first time. These skills they taught me work…
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Don Try to Sober Up on Your Own
Taking the first step, realize you have a problemPersonal inventoryWorking the 12 step programFacing realityDon't make any major decisionsYour addictive personality can play tricks on you!Learn to st…
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Facility Not Equipped for Dual Diagnosed Patient
This center exercised gross negligence discharging a resident who was gravely disabled (paranoid with very disorganized thinking) with no real discharge plan. He consequently returned to my parents e…
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Treatment Got Me Out of My Comfort Zone
Being separated from my comfort zone of home and being institutionalized with other fellow alcoholics. Having other alcoholics whom I was in treatment with help me see my addictive behaviors through …
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Good Diet and Alcohol Cravings
The importance of a good diet. If you aren't eating right, you have cravings and since you have the habit of feeding these cravings with alcohol, you crave alcohol. If you're hungry, you have trouble…
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Three Residential Programs, 13 Detox Centers
The group sessions I found helpful and working with one-one-one counselor. however, as I found out, being in structured environment for a 9-month period is not a cure, as I found out through many rel…
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Rehab Was a Blessing to Me
The staff loved me until I could learn to love myself without the use of drugs. I beat a 15-year prison term and was blessed with NCSH, they welcomed me with open arms and I felt like I was finally h…
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Detox for Morphine Lasted 10 Days
The counseling I received from Travis and Diane. They were the ones who I personally believed saved my life and gave me the tools to stay clean and sober. My family is so grateful to have their mothe…
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Learning Gratitude
Within the first day of arriving I was chatting about my alcoholism with other alcoholics around the breakfast table. We were sharing openly and honestly without reservation. We all felt safe with ea…
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My Way Wasn't Working
I accepted that doing things my way wasn't working. I began to listen. and I mean really listen. Sometimes I would have to focus on every word said. The other addicts were not always making sense and…
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Reach Out and Help Others
Getting right with God and being humble and having willingness to help other people and staying honest with myself about the disease! I learned that there are many others out there who need help, and…
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Forced Into Treatment
Getting out was the best part. I was forced into treatment as a teenager in 1983. I was 20 years younger than most of the other clients, and the only female. I learned that it's important to research…
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Learned How to Live Again
Being in treatment helped me to learn how to live again. I realized that I am not in control of other people, I got psychological help, and I learned how to live without alcohol and drugs. I don't kn…
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