Non 12 Step Rehabs

Finding True Recovery With Non 12 Step Drug Rehabs

For over 70 years traditional 12 step type treatment has been the adopted standard for drug and alcohol rehab. This philosophy is used in local AA or NA meetings as well as most inpatient rehabs across America. While the original intent for 12-step may have been well-meaning, the reality is that statistics show this style of treatment is very ineffective.

When looking at why fewer than 10% achieve success with 12-step programs, a number of factors stand out:

12 Step Programs Use Group Therapy:
A major flaw is the group process that is used for 'therapy' and how this is difficult, if not impossible, to really get to underlying issues of an addiction. A group setting will simply not succeed in getting intensive work done and allow key breakthrough for an individual. Additionally, sitting in a group setting and talking about the past about getting high, and more causes many to experience increased desire after a meeting to drink / use drugs. Non 12 step drug rehab centers do not use group therapy methods.

12 Step Uses Heavy Indoctrination:
The process is designed to have one believe they have a disease, that they are powerless against their addiction, that they will have it for life and that relapse is part of recovery. The result is one having to accept that they have an incurable disease. Unfortunately this only makes a person feel even more hopeless and the result is often more drug or alcohol abuse after this type of 'treatment'. Non 12 step rehab does not instill in a person the idea that they are diseased or incurable in any way.

12 Step Enforces Only a Higher Power Can Help:
The teachings put heavy emphasis on the idea that one must fully submit to a Higher Power so one may be able to cope through life with their disease. While this may work well for some, a great many others have found that it mixes too much church / religion with the goal of getting help for their addiction. Non 12 step drug rehab treatment believes that one should have the ability to choose religion or faith as they see fit and that treatment should be a non-faith based rehab experience. This allows people of all faiths to get specific treatment for their addictions and emphasis is put on raising the self-empowerment of the patient to regain control of their life.

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Damaging Effects From AA / NA Meetings

There is no doubt the intention is good going to regular AA or NA meetings and get support from other addicts and get help 'working the steps'. That would be fine except that what actually happens is usually something far less productive than that. Ask anyone who has been to such meetings and they will tell you that they often feel worse after a meeting and it often leads them to having the urge to drink or use drugs immediately following.

There are a number of reasons this may occur but the most common include:

• Participants sit around in a circle and talk about the past and how bad things are in life and continue to talk about problems. Many feel that sitting around and listening to other people's problems does not help to resolve their own personal issues and addiction. The result is that many leave feeling even more hopeless about life in general and a further sense of depression sets in.
• Most telling their stories include how they are diseased and relapsed, and what they did when they were drunk or high. This instills in participants that relapse is acceptable and long term sobriety is not realistic for most.
• Some find new friends in AA or NA and through new relationships and discussion in the meetings are exposed to new ideas and ways to get high. Experimentation occurs when acting out and more complex addictions are formed.
• Drug dealers are keenly aware of the fact that 12 steppers are 'turned on' with sensation and cravings as a result of what is discussed in such meetings. For this reason it is very common to find dealers attending meetings under the guise of being in treatment or to run into dealers in the parking lot on the way out.

Meetings that include these and other negative elements can have a destructive effect on a person's ability to get over an addiction. If someone is constantly reliving the horrors of addiction, they can never really become free from it. Such elements cause people to feel trapped, sad, unhappy and in a state of emotional pain. The result is the desire to use drugs or alcohol to block this pain and not have to confront it.

Non 12 step rehab programs work to unstick someone from the past so they can resolve and move on from issues that are causing them to want to drink or use drugs. Non 12 step rehab centers believe that support groups can be created post rehab. These often include family, friends and those that care most about the person - but in a way that furthers constructive goals and purposes to succeed in life after treatment.

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