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When you are searching for rehabilitation centers, start by asking staff for details about their program. Find out the components and what part of addiction each component is intended to handle. If the program uses opiate replacement therapy, realize that the addiction itself is not being addressed and can re-occur as soon as the opiate replacement medications are ceased. The person has not learned how good it can feel to be fully drug-free and has not learned to make drug-free decisions. Opiate replacement therapy is at best a band-aid, a very shallow therapy for a very deep problem.

Every person who becomes addicted started their addiction and drug use with a problem of some sort. It could have been more stress or threat than they knew how to handle. It could have been as simple as a desire to fit in with a crowd or boredom or desire for excitement. Drugs may have alleviated that problem for a little while. If a person uses drugs enough, they build up a tolerance and then a dependence and finally must use the drug or alcohol in order to simply feel "normal." The punishment for this addiction is the terrible withdrawal symptoms that keep people trapped in an addiction. Withdrawal can be so punishing that many people feel they must stay addicted as wtihdrawal is too terrible to be faced.

But even a monster like drug withdrawal can be faced with the right support. Intelligent nutritional supplementation can go a long way to making withdrawal more tolerable. Gentle physical relaxation processes and reorientation exercised help a person through the physical and mental symptoms of withdrawal.

Don't settle for a pharmaceutical shortcut to addiction treatment. Find a program that will support the person all the way through recovery.