70% Success Rate

The Freedom Center is the most successful drug treatment program in the country, with a history of an astounding 70%+ success rate. That means that more than 3 out of 4 of our graduates leave clean, and stay clean. This far exceeds that success rate of traditional 12-step programs and other alternative methods of drug rehab.

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2. Drug Rehab Program
3. Success Story
4. How Our Program is Different From Others
5. Proven Results
6. The Life Cycle and Mechanics of Addictions
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Our Rehab Facility

Freedom Center provides a safe and comfortable environment for recovery. Here you will find Bedrooms that are comfortable and clean. This will help you get the rest you so desperately need to recover. Also, There is plenty of space for relaxation in our many lounge areas. The Freedom Center Drug Rehab Center is nestled in a quiet, semi-residential area. The 58,000 square foot building rests on 10 acres, is surrounded by large oak trees and the back of the property is wooded and peaceful.  Deer can often be seen grazing in the back and there is plenty of space for walking and quiet reflection. While learning life skills you will enjoy the casual classroom environments excellent for learning. Our addiction treatment facility has an on-site work-out facility to get your body healthy and fit!  You may also enjoy recreational sports such as volleyball, basketball, pool and occasionally we take students swimming.  Having a relaxing and enjoying facility really helps in the addiction treatment process.

Success Story

“Before this program my life was legally, emotionally, and physically in shambles. By doing drugs I had lost control of my life and everything in it, ruining relationships and hurting all of the people I cared about the most. The Freedom Center program has given me the skills to confront any problem or situation I encounter, to communicate with others and handle them when they are having difficulties, and to regain control of my life and everything in it. I am more confident in myself and my abilities than I ever have been. This is a GREAT feeling.”

(no name to protect privacy)

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Our Drug Addiction Treatment Program

The  Freedom Center program doesn’t distinguish people addicted to drugs and alcohol as addicts.  Instead we view them as students, people learning to live with out substance abuse. Our addiction treatment program is designed to enable graduates to get back into their life on their own. The programs focus is on teaching students to live ethical lives free of their addiction, and be able to become a contributing citizen.

It takes more than just getting rid of the substances in your body to overcome addiction.

To reduce drug and alcohol use the Freedom Center knows that greater results can be achieved by helping to educate students.

We Teach Students:

• To confront situations
• To control situations
• To communicate effectively
• To purge the body of drug residues
• To use tools needed to acquire and retain knowledge
• To overcome living in the past
• To avoid harmful situations
• To restore ethics, morals, responsibility and integrity
• To improve problem-solving skill

Information about our addiction treatment program:

1. The Therapeutic Training Routines Course
2. The New Life Detoxification Program
3. The Learning Improvement Course
4. The Communication and Perception Course
5. The Ups and Downs in Life Course
6. The Personal Values and Integrity Course
7. The Changing Conditions in Life Course
8. The Way to Happiness Course
9. After Care Program

The Therapeutic Training Routines Course

This is a basic drug treatment course which rehabilitates an individual’s ability to confront, control, and communicate. It has been found that through the cycle of addiction these skills are lost or suppressed. These skills are rehabilitated through simple drills that are done in a course room setting. Upon completion students find that they are better able to exist comfortably in the present moment, communicate in a much more rational manner, and control themselves in situations that they would previously lose control in.

What is the Core Problem?

“Drugs aren’t even the real problem, but symptoms of an underlying problem”

Many people mistakenly think that drugs and alcohol are the problem, and focus all their energies on handling the substances, rather than the true problem. Time and again, we see addicts removing themselves from their drug of choice (jail, treatment, hospitalizations) and yet they return to active addiction. The drugs are no longer in their system, we like to think…therefore the drug problem should be gone. But, of course, it is not.

And, in addition, if their “drug of choice” becomes less available (moving to another area, lack of finances, needing to take drug tests, etc) then many substance abusers will switch from their drug of choice to another more available or cheaper substance. This includes addictive behaviors such as gambling or sex. Again the drug problem doesn’t seem to be much of a drug problem, but a behavioral or thinking problem.

If the drugs aren’t even the problem, what is the problem then? In it simplest form, the problem with a substance abuser isn’t so much the drugs, but a problem of avoiding uncomfortable feelings, things and situations. Drugs alleviate uncomfortable feelings, they make us feel better. But so do other behaviors that we see common to supposed “drug addicts”.

In addition to the substance abuse, we also see many of these common traits with substance abusers:

• Postponing or delaying uncomfortable responsibilities such as paying bills, going to school, finding work, etc. “I’ll take care of this tomorrow”
• Shutting down. “If I sit here and don’t talk, sooner or later they will go away and quit yelling at me.”
• Reacting explosively when confronted to make things go away. “Leave me alone!”
• Lying to avoid uncomfortable confrontations. “I swear I didn’t use drugs today”
• Avoiding uncomfortable confrontations of any type. “I don’t want to talk about this right now. Can we deal with this later?”
• Avoiding uncomfortable problems by immersing themselves for long periods in distractions such as television, music, or even gambling.
• Playing the victim to make them feel more comfortable. “This isn’t my fault. If you had my problems, you’d use too.”
• Shifting the blame. “If you wouldn’t give me such a hard time, then I wouldn’t use.”Not taking accountability for their actions. “This wasn’t my fault.”

In other words, a substance abuser isn’t actually addicted to drugs (although he may have become temporarily physically dependent) ,  they are actually addicted to is avoiding uncomfortable feelings, things and situations . This manifests itself in so much more than just the drug abuse.

If we do not work on the real problem, this instinctive avoiding of uncomfortable things, then no matter how long we take the substances out of the abuser, they are probably going to eventually seek it out again…and in the meantime continue avoiding facing uncomfortable life situations which will create its own share of problems.

At the Freedom Treatment Center, after successfully withdrawing off of drugs or alcohol, the first area of recovery that we need to focus on is composed of three parts found within our Therapeutic Training Routines:

1. Raising our ability to confront uncomfortable feelings, things and situations.
2. Being able to effectively communicate problems, things and situations in such a way as to not create further discomfort.
3. Being able to control ourselves and our surroundings in a healthy manner.

We accomplish this by having our students perform 8 basic drills that are designed to increase ones ability to effectively confront, control and communicate. We consider these the basic foundation, without which it is impossible to successful apply the remaining steps of our program to recovery and freedom from active addiction. This step is considered so vital that it is repeated again, at a much higher level, further down the program.

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The New Life Detoxification Program

If I am truly clean and sober, why don’t I feel better?

One of the biggest problems facing substance abusers entering addiction treatment is that very little emphasis is placed upon the physical component of addiction. In other words, many people who find themselves addicted to drugs check themselves into treatment, are given a handful of drugs for a few days, and then told they should be fine. But, in actuality, they are far from fine.

Many opiate, alcohol, or benzodiazepine abusers find that they have lost the ability to sleep for weeks after their supposed “detox”. Even worse still, trace elements of the substances can become stored in the body and slowly released over time, causing physical reactions or cravings for the substances. The most addicts are usually told is just to “tough it out”. Understandably, these symptoms will dissipate over time, but in some cases this can take up to several years.

In other words, just because we have stopped taking drugs does not mean that we are no longer under their effect. But, what if we could accelerate the process? What if we could effectively remove drugs and toxins, increase health and nutrition, and also restore unhealthy sleep patterns within weeks and not years? Well now you can. This course is the detox portion of the program which accelerates the natural detox of the  body.  In this detox program,  the students begin by reading a short book that is an orientation on the sauna program and receive Doctor approval to begin this step ( in some extreme cases a medical detox is necessary).

The purpose of the Sauna Detox Program is to purge the body of drug residues, thus greatly reducing or completely removing cravings.

How Drug and Alcohol Detox is Accomplished:

• An exact regimen of vitamin, mineral and oil intake
• Exercise, preferably running, to stimulate circulation
• Regular diet supplemented with plenty of fresh vegetables
• Prescribed periods in a low heat sauna to promote perspiration
• Sufficient liquids to offset the loss of body fluids through sweating
• A properly ordered personal schedule, which provides the person with the normally required amounts of sleep

By working on the physical, as well as the mental, emotional and the spiritual aspects of addiction and recovery, we can exponentially increases the long-term chances of a substance abuser remaining abstinent.

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The Learning Improvement Course

This part of the drug rehab program enables the student to advance their reading and comprehension skills. It also helps give the tools needed to acquire and retain knowledge, identify and overcome the barriers to study and gain full understanding no matter what is being studied in life. Once this course it completed, the person is able to grasp and apply fully all the steps of study and application that follow.

If you don’t know how to apply the material, the material won’t apply to you.

One of the biggest stumbling blocks for substance abusers in early recovery from addictions is in incorrectly processing information that could be vital towards their long-term recovery. In fact, many of us have been taught incorrect study patterns from early on. Teaching that it is “more important to memorize the right answers and get the A on the test than it is to apply the material to our own life” has left many substance abusers with one of two attitudes towards learning:

1. Developed a negative association with learning and studying because of frustration and poor performance in early education methods.
2. Became excellent at memorizing and regurgitating the “right” answers, without any strong abilities or skills to apply the material.

For example, although we are not affiliated with the Alcoholics Anonymous program and do not prescribe to its belief systems, we will use A.A. as an example. The foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous program is based upon a book published in 1939. Due to this, many of the words and phrases used are antiquated or out-dated. This leaves many readers of the A.A. literature frustrated or bored. Because of a lack of understanding in the material, the material doesn’t apply to them. They cannot relate, and do not try to. Others within the A.A. program simply memorize the material and can rapidly quote phrases straight out of the book, but still can’t stay sober. Again, memorization doesn’t necessarily mean application.

If we are to properly understand our addiction and recovery, we must be able to properly learn the ideal methods which will bring about the greatest understanding and be able to apply that information to our own lives. Reading effective material is only effective if it is properly understood.

In Learning Improvement, we seek to help our students to gain several abilities towards the field of study:

• Learn the proper techniques of study to more fully understand the material
• Recognize the stumbling blocks or barriers to study
• Learn techniques to apply the material so that it applies to their own life.

Once our students gain these skills then proper understanding of their addictions through study and how to recover become more real for them. The principles become applicable instead of just some vague concept that doesn’t make much sense.

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The Communication and Perception Course

This drug rehab course is vital to breaking past impulsive behaviors and teaches the individual how to overcome living in the past. The use of drugs can cause a person’s perception of reality to become warped to a greater or lesser degree. The course is carefully crafted to bring the person fully back into true reality with their current environment, while also restoring their perceptions of the real world. This enables the student to regain self-control, an enhanced ability to perceive the environment, and imperative skills in identifying and solving life’s problems. Upon completion of this course the person is able to see the world as it truly exists, which is a essential tool of relieving guilt, depression and leaving addiction far behind.

Am I existing in the present or reacting to things from my past?

Many times a substance abuser in early recovery is told they just need to deal with “life on life’s terms”. Unfortunately, dealing with the present is almost impossible when you are still unconsciously reacting to things from the past. Since we are about avoiding uncomfortable feelings, things and situations, when faced with trauma or distress we can often just “bury it” and try not to think about it again. Sometimes these things become so buried we are no longer aware that they exist.

But they do exist for a person early in recovery who hasn’t faced them. Instead of dealing with the present, we are reacting to a thousand unresolved past issues. Like mental image pictures these things build up over time, and we are no longer able to face life without reacting like a pinball to its elements. We have become a slave to the memories of our past and we don’t even know it.

Ask any alcoholic who drives by his old favorite bar, or a heroin addict who drives through a bad drug neighborhood. Their thoughts begin to race, their heart begins to quicken. They are no longer able to see things objectively; they are reacting to a hundred similar situations that occurred in the past. And it isn’t just drug situations that still affect us. A woman who was victimized at an early age is often affected so deeply that she is unable to have healthy relationships today.

The Communications and Perceptions Course is actually two different parts:

1. A much higher level of the first Therapeutic Trainings Routines course in order to raise our ability to confront, communicate and control more effectively.
2. Objectives Exercises designed to free us up from the past and enable us to actually deal with the present with as little past effect as possible.

If we are able to see the present as it truly is, instead of a distorted image brought on by past events, and we have an increased ability to confront uncomfortable things, feelings and situations, only then are we better able to “deal with life and life’s terms”.

We are no longer a slave to the past. We are dealing in the present.

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The Ups and Downs in Life Course

To avoid harmful situations, this drug rehabilitation course is designed to enable a student to identify true friends and isolate those whose company is detrimental to the student’s sobriety and survival. A student learns about how poor decisions regarding acquaintances and friends has damaged their past, and how they can make improved choices in their future.

Dealing with People, Places and Things

In a perfect world, a substance abuser would enter into treatment, return home and life would be wonderful. Free from the negative consequences brought upon by drug and alcohol abuse, life should be easy.

But the world is not perfect. Unfortunately there are people in our lives, old associates, and unhealthy relationships that do not want us to be well. And those people will make us sicker. They do not want us to be well.

Many drug rehab facilities simply sum it up by saying avoid old people, places and things that remind you of using and drinking. But try and explain this to a 21 year old who has spent the majority of his life hanging out with his “friends”. He doesn’t believe that they have bad intentions. They are his friends. Perhaps some of them are ok, aren’t they? In worse cases, a substance abuser may be connected with someone who is covertly working against them and their recovery. And that person might not even be a drug or alcohol user themselves. A wife who says she wants her husband to quit drinking, but discourages him from seeking treatment would be an example.

Without a proper understanding of the true motivations behind the actions of some of those we have been connected to in our past alcohol and drug abuse will often lead to gravitating right back to an unhealthy situation. One that we might not even have known was unhealthy, or even why.

One of the greatest gifts that we can give our students at Freedom Treatment Center is the ability to recognize and surround themselves with positive people that are healthy for their lives and their recovery. The Up ands Downs in Life course seeks to give our students a better understanding of how people can affect us positively and negatively. It goes much deeper than knowing to avoid the “seedy drug dealer standing on the corner hawking his wares”. It gives them the tools on how to identify and handle present life relationships that may be temporarily or even permanently unhealthy.

In addition, many family relationships may potentially become very healthy for us, but at the moment, since we have created so much antagonism from our actions, they may have become chaotic and disrupted. Learning how to properly handle and help our immediate family is critical towards long term recovery, for our family can eventually become our best support group.

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The Personal Values and Integrity Course

The next drug rehab course is an imperative step forward for the former addict. The student learns all about their ethics, morals, responsibility and how integrity is lost and exactly how it can be restored. The next part is a healing process in which a person sheds his misdeeds of the past and gains relief from the trauma and guilt of those misdeeds. The student who no longer feels guilty about his past is able to improve choices in life by applying the basic concepts of ethics and morals moving them forward into a positive future. Students also learn to make better choices regarding not only their survival, but also the survival of their families, work groups, and mankind. This helps to remove the student from the often self-centered focus that addiction causes and better able to become a contributing member of the family and society.

Becoming Responsible

Most people who have a drug addiction are inherently good people. We feel guilty for the things that we have done, and generally speaking, the best tool we have had so far is the guilty apology. “I’m sorry”. But sorry isn’t good enough. For us to truly change, we must become responsible.

Just because we have put down the drugs and alcohol, doesn’t necessarily mean that we have become responsible, although it is a step in the right direction. Responsibility, in its most basic of definitions becomes our ability to take ownership for our actions and how they affect others around us.

By responsibility, we don’t just mean “doing the right things”. It goes much deeper than that. It actually means “doing the right things because we actually understand how our actions affect ourselves and those around us”. In other words, the man who follows the speed limit only because he doesn’t want to get a speeding ticket isn’t necessarily highly responsible. A man, however, who follows the speed limit because he understands that to speed puts himself at risk, others around him at risk, as well as breaks the law agreed upon by citizens could be considered a highly responsible person. Responsibility isn’t necessarily the actions, but the understanding, accountability and motivations behind the actions.

Drug addicts and alcoholics in the midst of their addictions have notoriously low responsibility levels, regardless of whether or not they “pay the bills and show up for work on time”. They must have low responsibility levels for it enables them to do what they do. This is not a criticism, but a simple fact. How many drug addicts, before heading out the door to use drugs, say to themselves “Well, I know that in my doing this I am putting myself in legal and medical danger, increasing my addiction, and I understand exactly how my family will be heartbroken and the feelings they will go through.” If they did truly see it that way, they probably wouldn’t head out the door in the first place.

Simply deciding not to use drugs isn’t enough. For again, if our responsibility level is low enough, we will eventually create an avenue of escape. “One more can’t hurt. I’m not hurting anyone.” In addition, with each harmful act that we do to ourselves and others, we become more filled with guilt, anger, shame and remorse. Over time, we are burdened with a lifetime of guilty acts. The only recourse is to “make the uncomfortable feelings go away” through the use of mood altering substances. A never ending spiral.

At the Freedom Treatment Center we believe in understanding, action, and freedom. In other words, telling someone to simply “be responsible” is basically meaningless to most people. In order to become responsible you must understand what it means as well as get into action towards getting there. In taking full responsibility for our past actions raises our responsibility level, enables us to behave rightly, and allows us to become free of a lifetime of shame and regret.

The Personal Values and Integrity Course seeks to do several things towards increasing responsibility through understanding and application. How do we achieve this? By going back through our lives and looking at each harmful act that we have committed on ourselves and others. This seems like an overwhelming task, but it must be done. In looking at each harmful act, we must now finally take accountability for what happened and how this affected others. In doing so, we can actually do several things:

• Understand how our actions always have an effect on ourselves, different areas of our lives, and those around us.
• Raise our responsibility level so that we understand how our past actions affected ourselves and those around us.
• Take accountability for our actions
• Decrease the chances of us repeating the same behaviors
• Give us the tools to remain responsible and accountable to ourselves and others.
• Remove years of guilt, shame and remorse
• Become free of our past

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The Changing Conditions in Life Course

This drug rehab course is vital for learning the ability to deal with challenging situations in life and improving problem-solving skills. The student learns specific conditions and formula to be applied in those conditions to help stop negative trends from occurring in life. This is a major step towards breaking the cycle of repeat relapse as students are taught to spot these situations and how to handle them prior to getting to the point of utter failure. Upon completion of this course the student will understand and be able to resolve any situation in life while keeping their integrity intact.

Maintaining and Improving our Addiction Recovery

To understand how important this component of the Freedom Treatment Center drug rehab program is, we must look at the beginnings of the addiction, before the abuse even set in. Generally speaking, in early development, most people are not in control of their moods, emotions or mental states. A “good day” is relatively dependant upon outside events, people and circumstances. In other words, if everyone treats me kindly, work or school goes well, and the sun is shining brightly…then I am happy. We are a slave reacting to the world and its whims.

But, the world is not always so kind. Uncomfortable life events occur and we are affected negatively. Sometimes, hoping that the next day is a better one is the only tool that we have. In other cases we lash out, hoping to change the uncomfortable events around us into something more bearable. Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.

But, in the case of the substance abuser, we found an escape route…drugs and alcohol. Instead of having to change the world around us or hoping for a happy day, we found that we could instantly change our mood no matter how unbearable the surroundings. Bills piling up, another job lost, a wife about to leave? No problem. Simply ingest a substance and life has become more bearable. Unfortunately, though, there is a cost. This is not facing life, advancing or even survival. A life lived this way becomes very small. The circle of friends becomes smaller, financial troubles increase. In the best of cases, we are left sitting in a darkened room, bottle by our side…few that care about us are left. In the worst of cases, no one is left to notice our absence and we wander the streets homeless looking for just one more sip, hit or pill to make it all go away. But, again maybe tomorrow will be a better day.

After recovery, we have become less a slave to our emotions and the world around us. But if we are to survive, succeed and remain clean and sober we must have additional tools. And these tools require action.

By analyzing our lives we can find that it is broken up into different components for us to focus improvement on. Whether it is ourselves, our health, our family, jobs, material success, or spiritual growth, these areas can be focused on and with the effective tools, improved upon.

Changing Conditions in Life gives our students the ability to recognize what condition any area of their life is in. And, once we recognize that condition, there are steps we can take to be able to climb up to a higher condition. It is also important here that we understand how every area of our life is interconnected and we must have balance. Someone who focuses only on his physical health but neglects his family is probably doomed to fall short of his true potential as a human being. Neglecting the spiritual (whatever that belief may be for the individual) and only focusing on material pursuits can also limit us.

After exiting treatment, instead of trying to simply stay clean and sober while at the same time “waiting for the world to throw you a good luck charm” isn’t recovery. Recovery is really about facing uncomfortable feelings and life situations and walking through them without distraction or avoiding. Recovery is about productively and actively pursuing improvement in all areas of our lives. Instead of being a slave, we have a chance to become free. Free to create our own lives and our own destinies.

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The Way to Happiness Course

This part of the drug rehab program enlightens the student on 21 guidelines that cover moral and ethical codes that will give them subjective reality on where they have gone and exactly how to do better in the future. This will result in a better way of living and a happier more productive person.

A new pair of glasses

Most everyone when growing up is taught basic life lessons. Respect your elders, don’t steal, be honest. Perhaps we followed these lessons, or perhaps we temporarily listened to these teachings simply because we were told to. Maybe we thought they didn’t even apply to us at all. But what happens when years of substance abuse begin to distort our ideas of right and wrong? The basics of life begin to be replaced with other codes…take what you want, lie to get out of trouble, do anything to get ahead.

Upon finishing the Freedom Treatment Center program, the student has been given many tools:

• The ability to remain drug and alcohol free
• The ability to take responsibility
• The ability to confront uncomfortable things and feelings
• The ability to communicate effectively
• The ability to control oneself and one’s environment rather than reacting to it
• The ability to have a positive effect on life
• The ability to repair damaged relationships
• The ability to become productive

And with these abilities, comes an additional gift…the ability to see the world through a new pair of glasses.

Returning to age-old tenets and life lessons that have been taught by our parents, pastors, teachers, and spiritual and moral leaders for thousands of years, the Way to Happiness allows our students to see those truths as fundamentally necessary for the greatest level of happiness and survival.

Having an opportunity to look through a new pair of glasses at our lives and the world around us, no longer distorted by drugs or alcohol, we have now gained the ability to change ourselves, to help others, and find our true purpose in the world, whatever that may be. Perhaps our purpose is to be an excellent parent, a talented musician, a teacher, or someone who builds things.

Or perhaps our purpose is the same as the staff members who dedicate themselves at the Freedom Treatment Center…to help another person and maybe change a life.

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After Care Program

It is important, before leaving addiction treatment, to establish that our recovery is on a firm footing. Upon completion of the 8 areas of the  Freedom Center program, there are still at least three additional areas that must be addressed.

Facing the Substance

Although a drug and alcohol substance abuser may have done a thorough job in facing up to his responsibilities, gaining control of his life and beginning to make up damages, there is still the issue of restimulation of thoughts of using substances through images, paraphernalia, or even the substances themselves. How nice it would be if the alcoholic could leave treatment and never again be faced with a commercial, advertisement or situation involving alcohol. But the reality is that drugs and alcohol do exist in society.

Many a substance abuser does an excellent job in treatment, arrives home and opens up a drawer and there it is. The pill or bag that he forgot was there. His heart begins to quicken, his thoughts race. Not expecting it or prepared for it sometimes he crumbles and automatically does what he has done a thousand times before.

The Freedom Treatment Center drug rehab program is one of the only programs in the world that seeks to handle these situations directly, before they occur outside of a safe environment. Often called Cue Exposure Training in cognitive therapy, this process seeks to diminish the power of our conditioning to sights, sounds and feelings that have built up over time in our using.

At the Freedom Treatment Center, the student will, before completing the program and under the careful supervision of another face the things that still may have power over him and put him in a negative effect. Confronting the substances themselves (often in the form of exact look-a-like substances), the paraphernalia, and other things that trigger him is an eye-opening and very powerful element of the program. Only until the student claims to be “flat” or no longer under restimulation, and has had a powerful realization about his use can he be said to have completed this section.

Battle Plan

One of the biggest mistakes made by substance abusers who enter into substance abuse treatment is the idea that treatment has somehow “fixed” them and they no longer need anything else. With the  Freedom Treatment Center drug and alcohol rehabilitation program, our students have learned how to apply actions in the form of conditions and steps to improve in life, but ideas and thoughts without a solid plan after treatment can often lead to disaster. Learning about recovery and then going home and applying the “sitting on the couch, watching TV all day with no job and no goals” form of recovery isn’t recovery at all.

Formulating a plan or “battle plan”, under the supervision of a counselor can be just the thing needed to prevent one from falling back into complacency. Making clear cut goals for the initial days, weeks and months ahead and, in addition, formulating the steps on how to achieve these goals is part of what the Freedom Treatment Center program teaches; that we are in control of our lives and can achieve what we want through productive actions, not through complacency.

Family Follow-up

An integral part of the  Freedom Treatment Center drug rehab program is the family follow-up or aftercare. An aftercare specialist contacts the family and/or client weekly for up to a year upon completion of the program. This seeks to handle several things:

• It provides a continual contact with another member of recovery who can advise or help
• It maintains responsibility
• It provides help or assistance to the family members of a former substance abuser
• It allows us to help prevent the former substance abuser from stumbling and slipping into relapse.