A 10 Day Spin Dry?
Here we go again, another miracle cure treatment center for alcoholism and drug addiction. Can 10 days of amino acids really cure alcoholism and addiction?
Business Executive and Recovering Addict, Mike Sanders is using Recovery Month to promote his ExecuCare Addiction Recovery Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Calling it a “revolutionary approach to treating addiction” and “A first of its kind in the state of Georgia”
According to the ExecuCare website, “Most traditional addiction recovery treatments can be lengthy and disruptive, but ExecuCare ARC’s discreet, outpatient treatment lasts only 10 days and allows clients to return home or to their hotel at night.” And how do they accomplish this?
We administer an all natural Neurotransmitter Restoration (NTR) treatment that utilizes a special formula of amino acids, which are administered intravenously over a 10-day period by a registered nurse under doctor’s orders. The NTR treatment addresses all prescription and non-prescription drug addictions as well as alcohol and nicotine addictions.
That’s it apparently folks, all there is to treating addiction is brining into balance an imbalance of amino acids. Never mind the links to physical and emotional trauma, never mind unlearning years of addiction seeking behavior, never mind identifying triggers if Sanders is right all you need is 10 days of amino acids.
Unfortunately, programs like this are likely to give a bad rap to the nutritional importance of treating addiction. There’s no getting around it, years of taking drugs and or drinking depletes the body of many minerals and nutrients and these need to be built back up. It is even possible that some relapses occur, at least in part, because of not getting the necessary supplements. Many traditional drug treatment programs do miss the mark in terms of providing nutritional information to addicts and alcoholics. Inpatient treatment programs don’t always pay attention to the nutritional needs of the alcoholic.
If you’re considering treatment for yourself or someone else it’s completely reasonable to ask a treatment program how they address the nutritional aspects of recovery, and if they don’t maybe you don’t want to consider them.
Inconvenience e.g. lengthy treatment programs is an easy excuse to avoid treatment. Easy answers like a 10 day spin dry are a great way to say you’ve been in treatment and it just didn’t work for you. Sooner or later though - maybe after you loose your career, home and family - the inconvenience of a program that takes time and addresses all the physical, mental and emotional needs you have for addressing your addiction won’t seem like such a sacrifice.
