All About Christian Drug Treatment and Christian Drug Treatment Centers

March 25, 2009 - PRLog -- Christian drug treatment is very popular for drug addicts who want to overcome their addiction and lead a sober lifestyle.  There are a lot of drug addicts who try a variety of drug addiction recovery programs before trying a Christian drug treatment center and finally getting sober.  Why is a Christian drug treatment center superior to a drug addiction recovery program that is not based on Christ?  There are a number of reasons that this is true.  This article will introduce the reader to what makes Christian drug treatment different from other types of programs and why it is better than the alternatives.

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Christian drug treatment looks very much like non-Christian addiction treatment when they are both examined on a superficial level.  Non-Christian addiction treatment forces a drug addict to give up his drug of choice and to live a drug-abstinent lifestyle.  The therapy provided in both types of addiction recovery will be done on an individual basis as well as in group settings (wherein many people who are battling addiction work together to get sober and help each other beat their respective drug habits).  Drug addiction recovery can be done on both an in-patient setting (where the drug addict lives at the addiction recovery facility) and an out-patient setting (where the drug addict schedules therapy and drug testing appointments around his work and social schedule).  

Christian drug treatment can be done in all of these ways.  Drug addicts and alcoholics can check themselves into (or be checked in involuntarily) a drug addiction treatment center and work to get sober as an "in-patient."  They can also choose to live at home or with their families/friends and attend meetings at a local addiction recovery center or at a local church.  Christian drug treatment incorporates therapy on both an individual and group basis.  It also incorporates lessons on Jesus Christ and Christian philosophy.  Trained counselors, therapists and teachers will show drug addicts how to utilize lessons from the bible and writings by biblical scholars to stay sober.  Most Christian drug treatment centers utilize regular church services to help their patients stay sober and have patients volunteer in the local community.

Here are the two most popular methods of Christian drug treatment:

12 Steps:  12 Steps is, arguably, the most famous and easily understood method of Christian drug treatment in the entire world.  Alcoholics anonymous developed the twelve step program and use it as their "official" method for helping alcoholics get sober.  It works for all types of drug addiction because it gives drug addicts and alcoholic specific steps that they must take to get and stay sober.  Almost everyone has heard of "working the steps."  

Replacement Therapy:  Replacement therapy is a drug addiction recovery method that is used in Christian drug treatment and secular addiction recovery programs.  Basically, replacement therapy helps addicts replace their addiction to their drugs of choice with an addiction to God.  This helps channel addictive personality types toward constructive habits and addictions like bible study and spiritual living.

The truth is that most drug addicts will go through more than one relapse as they work to get sober.  Most of these addicts swear that it was a Christian drug treatment based addiction recovery approach that helped them stop relapsing and stay sober.  Christian drug treatment, simply, offers drug addicts things that are not offered by secular and non-faith based recovery programs.  When a person chooses to utilize a Christian drug treatment center, he will be accepted into a community filled with people who believe the same thing and provide strength to those who want to get and stay sober.  The community based approach is easily replaced in the regular world by joining a local church and attending its services regularly.  Doing so provides drug addicts with a system of "positive pressure" based social support that will help the addict stay sober.

Choosing a Christian drug treatment center is not easy.  There are a lot of different types of centers to choose from.  The biggest decision to make is whether or not the addict will be served best by an out-patient clinic or an in-patient addiction recovery program.  If the addict still has a strong system of social support, an out patient recovery program will probably be sufficient.  The type of therapy offered by the recovery center is also important.  Some people need to be confronted about their addictions.  That same approach could send other people running for their drug of choice.  

A Christian drug treatment center offers drug addicts something important that is lacking in other types of addiction recovery: faith.  Addicts take quite a lot of comfort tin faith as well as in the lessons provided by Jesus Christ.  A drug addict's chances of staying sober are greatly improved when he understands that he is not alone and that a higher power is with him all the time.  Christian drug treatment centers help addicts find faith in the divine and better understand their place in the universe.

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Transformations Treatment Center is a 30 to 90 day drug and alcohol treatment program that offer 12 step based and Christian drug treatment. Clients can attend aftercare groups three days per week at no cost upon completion of the program. Clients who complete the 90 day three phase step down drug and alcohol treatment qualify for Transformations Treatment Centers Gauranteed Sucess Program.
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