by NYS OASAS

When youre drinking is increasing and going out of control it means you are getting addicted to drinking. Alcohol can ruin or complicate your life. It will not only destroy your life but will also affect those who are close to you. People close to you may leave you one day due to drinking, So before it becomes too late come out of this habit. There are a number of finest alcohol treatment centers available which will take action according to your requirements and help you come out of this problem.

Persons who go through alcohol addiction are not supposed to see their case in separation because it can affect any person. Most of the people get satisfied after knowing that if they look for help from a great alcohol treatment center, the trouble can be treated in favor of good within a very small time. It is very important to note that the help should be taken from the well known alcohol treatment center if you really want the problem to go away from you.

You should not think that it is just a minute problem and can be managed with lightness. If you are thinking the same then you are spoiling your life as well as cost. Though there are lots of persons who require treatment to come out from the alcohol problems but most of them are not ready to entrust on an addiction treatment program. If you are prepared to look for the facilitation through alcohol rehab then Kelowna has an alcohol abuse treatment Kelowna program that can be a right choice for you.

A number of people are hereditarily inclined in the direction of budding alcoholism, whereas others build up the habit of drinking behaviors mainly as an effect of their surroundings as well as the circumstances they practice. Your trail towards alcoholism was covered with a selective arrangement of aspects that are inimitable to you. Alcohol treatment center in Kelowna identify that there is not a single range fits every approach to alcohol rehab. Each and every human being faces unlike struggles at the time of dealing with alcohol addiction.

Research has been found that there were 80% of people were between the ages of twenty and fifty who came for the treatment for alcohol alone and out of them the majority common age vary between 41-45 years. The people who were getting the treatment for alcohol as well as a secondary drug likely to be a little younger and 83% of the people were between the ages of twenty one and fifty. The people who were between the age group of 26-30 years were the most regular age range. It has found that inside the alcohol treatment center in Kelowna. Men were twice in number then women and the ratio between men and women was 7-3.

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Question by Maryy: What percent of rehabilitated people actually are cured?
ok so this is for a project….
does anyone know what percent of rehabilitated people get out and dont do the same mistake agian??? (i.e.- they would use drugs daily, went to rehab, then when they got out they quit completly)
i searched yahoo, google, and ask jeeves. i did all of my project and this is just a small part of it wich isnt really gonna be graded so keep your useless coments to yourself

Best answer:

Answer by raysny
Rehabs often claim amazing results, but the reality is less than spectacular.

According to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_addiction
“The effectiveness of alcoholism treatments varies widely. When considering the effectiveness of treatment options, one must consider the success rate based on those who enter a program, not just those who complete it. Since completion of a program is the qualification for success, success among those who complete a program is generally near 100%. It is also important to consider not just the rate of those reaching treatment goals but the rate of those relapsing. Results should also be compared to the roughly 5% rate at which people will quit on their own. A year after completing a rehab program, about a third of alcoholics are sober, an additional 40 percent are substantially improved but still drink heavily on occasion, and a quarter have completely relapsed.”

That estimate is based on information from Dr. Mark Willenbring of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and in my opinion, optomistic.

” About 80 percent of addiction patients will relapse, studies suggest, and long-term success rates for treatment are estimated at 10-30 percent.
“The therapeutic community claims a 30 percent success rate, but they only count people who complete the program,” noted Joseph A. Califano Jr., of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. “Seventy to eighty percent drop out in three to six months.” ”
http://www.addictioninfo.org/articles/1633/1/Little-Evidence-that-Costly-Treatment-Programs-Work/Page1.html

90-95% of rehabs in the US are 12step-based. The rest are Scientology or religion-based.

The 12step treatment method has been shown to have about a 5% success rate, the same as no treatment at all:

Although the success rate is the same, AA harms more people than no treatment:
1) Dr. Brandsma found that A.A. increased the rate of binge drinking, and
2) Dr. Ditman found that A.A. increased the rate of rearrests for public drunkenness, and
3) Dr. Walsh found that “free A.A.” made later hospitalization more expensive, and
4) Doctors Orford and Edwards found that having a doctor talk to the patient for just one hour was just as effective as a whole year of A.A.-based treatment.
5) Dr. George E. Vaillant, the A.A. Trustee, found that A.A. treatment was completely ineffective, and raised the death rate in alcoholics. No other way of treating alcoholics produced such a high death rate as did Alcoholics Anonymous.
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters85.html

1) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Brandsma
2) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Ditman
3) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Walsh
4) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Orford
5) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Vaillant

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Question by BK: Can you tell me a song about drugs and/or alcohol?
Hi, I need a song that has to do with drug and/or alcohol abuse. I found the song “Rehab” by Amy Winehouse, but I don’t think it has that much to do with alcohol and drug abuse itself. Sure, it does, but I need a song that has a lot to do with alcohol and/or drug abuse. Can anyone tell me a song about drugs and/or alcohol abuse please? It can be any type a song. It just can’t have curse words in it. Thanks so much!

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Answer by K.
Lovely Bones-Dead And Divine
D.R.U.G.S.-Dead And Divine

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Question by J.: Would a standard medical (not issued for court prosecution) blood detect drug and alcohol abuse?
I have a very minor problem with a leaky valve, and the doctor wants to do a blood test tomorrow for it. However, I stupidly partied last night with alcohol and vew vicodin pills. Will the panel that the doctor orders indicate any such “abuse”? Thanks.

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Answer by aanglea
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