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Drugs and alcohol are a huge problem that our society faces today. Many people who want to quit find themselves unable to do so on their own, so they chose to go to a drug rehab or an alcohol rehab. When someone is addicted to drugs, they have built their whole life around the substance and the culture that goes with it. All of their friends will most likely be associated with the drug in one form or another. All of the places they frequent will be associated with drugs in one form or another.

There are several different forms of treatment for drugs or alcohol. They range from very low impact outpatient sessions or meetings to very intensive long term inpatient care. The type of rehab that would best suit the individual needs is not a decision to be taken lightly. Only after careful consideration, should a final decision be made. All factors should be taken into account; this will only help to make the very best possible decision. If the person in need has made several attempts to recover and only failed, then you definitely want to check out various longer term inpatient facilities. If they are fairly new to drug or alcohol abuse and badly want to cease from drinking or using, then support meetings or outpatient care may suffice. Usually something long term and pretty intensive is necessary. Again, choosing a rehab is a lifesaving decision, make it wisely.

An individual’s needs are unique. A treatment program should be, too. There is no such thing as one-size-fits-all when it comes to addiction treatment. There should not be a standard drug rehab program, facility or center. Counselors should develop a treatment plan that is unique to each and every individual as everyone is different and needs a variety of different issues addressed and handled. These are the aspects that successfully help others achieve true long-term sobriety.

Effective drug and alcohol addiction treatment philosophy incorporates a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional methods, employing both Western and Eastern medical techniques. Utilizing the talents of some of the best practitioners and experienced counselors in the world is what makes rehabilitation and rehab successful and effective and gives individuals hope at a bright future. Allowing individuals to achieve long lasting sobriety and have a chance at a good clean and sober life is the main goal and prerogative. Successful drug rehab and alcohol rehab will change your life.

A great rehab is one where the methods are special and can aid in the addict’s journey through the first term called alcohol detox. Though it is very difficult for the alcohol addicts to keep away from alcohol in the initial phases of the Alcohol rehabilitation, it can be a cakewalk with appropriate help at hand.

It is very essential for the Drug rehabilitation program to be fruitful without the right ambience to back it all up. It is always essential for any addict to believe in the fact that an addiction can be overcome by summoning upon their hidden reservoir of strength.

It usually happens that when the trials are based upon individuals themselves there is a poor rate of success in returning back to normal life. It is this lack of proper application and the absence of a supportive structure that brings in a low rate of success.

Thus the individual can never ever be greater than any organization put together for the successful accomplishment of a task. Hence it is always advisable to go in for a treatment for addiction at a Drug rehabilitation center that helps out to solve the addiction issue.

The extremely caring and efficient programs at the rehab centers do a world of good in achieving an ideal environment towards the accomplishment of goal for the addicts. Even the same applies at the alcohol rehab centers that run alcohol rehab programs which are successful for addicts of varying degrees.

Anyway it is always the most difficult part for any addict to approach for help to overcome their addiction. There is also another very important matter that no amount of rehab can work truly until and unless an addict truly stops drinking and sets his heart upon it.

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by United Nations Development Programme

Question by sheashea09: If the purpose of prison is rehabilitation what should a program look like?
3rd part of final
What can you do in this rehab program, what are the rules.

Best answer:

Answer by INSOMNIAC IS FREE AT LAST
Here is one you can take some ideas from.~
A government-backed program that seeks to rehabilitate Iowa prison inmates by converting them to fundamentalist Christianity violates the U.S. Constitution, Americans United for Separation of Church and State charged in a pair of federal lawsuits filed today.

Americans United is challenging state promotion of the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, a program run by Charles Colson’s Prison Fellowship. In the lawsuits, AU charges that InnerChange constitutes a merger of government with religion. The program indoctrinates participants in religion, discriminates in hiring staff on religious grounds and gives inmates special privileges if they enroll.

The InnerChange program is currently in operation in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Texas, and a similar program is under consideration for use in the federal prison system as well. President George W. Bush and other advocates of “faith-based” social services have praised InnerChange as a model program.

But Americans United insists the arrangement is deeply flawed.

“This program is one of the most egregious violations of church-state separation I’ve ever seen,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director. “It literally merges religion and government.

“It is unconscionable for the government to give preferential treatment to prisoners based solely on their willingness to undergo religious conversion and indoctrination,” said Lynn. “Officials should use public funds to help rehabilitate all prison inmates, not just those who are willing to convert to fundamentalist Christianity.”

Continued Lynn, “Sadly, President Bush sees nothing wrong with an arrangement like this and indeed wants to spread it across all social services, affecting all Americans. It’s a dangerous agenda that must be stopped.”

Americans United filed suit on behalf of Jerry D. Ashburn, an inmate at Newton Correctional Facility in Newton, Iowa, who objects to the program’s religious tenets. A separate suit was filed on behalf of family and friends of Newton inmates who also object to the sectarian emphasis of the program.

Both lawsuits assert that InnerChange is based entirely on fundamentalist Christianity. InnerChange materials describe the program as “a revolutionary, Christ-centered, values-based pre-release program supporting prison inmates through their spiritual and moral transformation” and says it is “explicitly Christ-centered.”

In addition, InnerChange openly discriminates in hiring staff on religious grounds, despite its support from public funds. All employees must be Christians who are willing to sign a statement of faith that reflects fundamentalist Christian dogma.

InnerChange staff do not hesitate to discuss the group’s sectarian goals. Jack Cowley, national director of operations for InnerChange, told The Non-Profit Times in 2002 that the program seeks to convert inmates to fundamentalism. “From the state’s point of view, the mission is to reduce recidivism,” Cowley said. “From a ministry point of view, our mission is to save souls for Christ.”

The lawsuits also note that inmates in the InnerChange program receive much better treatment than inmates in the general population. InnerChange participants, for example, have keys to their cells and have access to private bathrooms. They are allowed to make free telephone calls to family members and are given access to big-screen televisions, computers and art supplies. These benefits are not extended to general-population inmates.

Newton officials fund InnerChange in part by charging general-population inmates and their family members exorbitant rates for telephone calls. The profits are then used to pay for 40 to 50 percent of InnerChange’s costs. Housing for the program is also completely subsidized with public funds.

This unusual funding mechanism means that all inmates and their family members and friends who wish to communicate by telephone are forced to support InnerChange. Americans United expects other plaintiffs to join the cases as they get under way. AU attorneys urged Newton inmates (or those who pay into the phone fund on their behalf) to contact AU. Persons who are interested in counseling prison inmates in Iowa and are qualified to do so, but do not meet InnerChange’s religious criteria for employment, also may be eligible to join the case.

“These cases have substantial implications for President Bush’s faith-based initiative,” said Ayesha Khan, Americans United’s legal director. “The president says it’s okay to use public dollars for religious discrimination, and we say it’s not. These cases will be among the first to determine how far the government can go in funding religious programs.”

In addition to AU’s Khan, other attorneys involved in the lawsuits include AU Litigation Counsel Alex Luchenitser and local counsel Dean Stowers, a constitutional lawyer with the Des Moines law firm of Rosenberg, Stowers & Morse.

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