Recovery From Drug Addiction

Meaningful recovery from drug addiction and/or mental illness begins with understanding. The understanding that the illness or illnesses your son faces are life threatening, and not a moral weakness--but a complex and serious disease requiring specialized treatment and rehabilitation focused on the needs of young adult men.

Your son is not alone! It's no secret that young adult drug abuse has become a national epidemic with far reaching societal implications.

Alcohol and marijuana abuse (gateway drugs) are tolerated and often viewed as simply a rite of passage for young adults. For some that may be the truth, but for others it's the just the beginning of a dark and difficult journey into addiction. Unfortunately chemical dependency is indiscriminate and can affect anyone--young or old, male or female, rich or poor and any race or ethnicity. Drug use is at a certain a level a game of Russian roulette.

Drug addiction becomes addiction when an addict's body comes to rely on a drug or drugs to sustain its normal metabolism. Prolonged drug use is associated with changes in the chemical composition of a drug abusers brain ultimately creating conditions under which he literally needs a drug to survive. Over time simple pleasures like the enjoyment of watching a beautiful sunset or spending time with a loved one become impossible without the use of a particular drug or drugs.

Drug addictions psychological dimension are no less important or problematic as over time an addict's mind comes to rely on a drug or drugs as part of its routine emotional processing. Chronic drug users lack the capacity to confront the world or themselves on "sober" terms and thus "need" drugs to function in any meaningful way. Researchers and treatment professionals also have linked drug use to a myriad of psychological disorders with depression and other mood disorders an almost certainty with chronic drug abuse. The combination of chemical dependency and psychological disorders can limit treatment options and make rehabilitation efforts significantly more complex.

Learning as much as you can about addiction and what you can do today to help both your son and your family start on the path to recovery from drug addiction is an important first step. We invite you to call our highly experienced and knowledgeable Admissions Counselors to talk about both the disease of addiction and the options for your son's full recovery.

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Drug and Alcohol Treatment--Specialized Rehabilitation for Young Adult Men

Selecting drug intervention options for your son can be extremely intimidating and confusing given the thousands of drug and alcohol treatment options available throughout the United States. Most are excellent programs and for the right individual can be highly successful in treating the disease of addiction.

What's critical to remember is the importance of selecting a program designed and experienced in treating the very unique and specialized needs of young adult men. This becomes even more critical when significant emotional-behavioral and psychiatric disorders are combined with substance abuse.
Young men on the threshold of adulthood bring special challenges requiring more than what might be needed for an adolescent or older adult. The questions parents need to carefully consider include:

Finding and selecting the right treatment option for your son is critically important. Looking beyond the easy questions involving the quality of the facilities and the qualifications of the staff will help to ensure the best fit and dramatically improve the likelihood of a real recovery rather than short-term abstinence or sobriety.

San Cristobal Academy has been in the business of providing comprehensive and holistic 12-step based extended care treatment and recovery for young adult men ages 17 to 26 since 2001. We focus on young adult men with chemical dependency problems often in combination with emotional-behavioral and other psychiatric disorders. Our understanding and practical experience in working exclusively with young adult men provides our students and families with qualities critical to successful recovery from drug addiction. Specifically, we provide addiction and psychiatric assessments, detox services, treatment planning, group and individual therapy and counseling, substance abuse education, family therapy, drug testing, life skills training, relapse prevention, academic support, aftercare options and orientation to self-help groups.

Knowledge is power! Please call our Admissions Counselors
to understand more about our specialized and successful rehabilitation program for young adult men. We're available and waiting for your call.

866-918-8383