Alcohol or Substance abuse and addiction is a serious problem that affects millions of American adults every year. Every individual has a unique past and everyone is different emotionally and physically hence following a standard traditional treatment approach may not bring the desired results for everyone.
In a traditional approach, there is no individualized treatment. You check-in, detox, and then go to addiction-education lectures, group therapy, and AA twelve-step meetings. There is a lack of customized and personalized approach for each individual. Most programs follow a traditional 28 to 30-day program length. Once they complete these courses of treatments you go back to the real world. And the real world is filled with temptations, and unfortunately, most people relapse. In fact, according to the Journal of American Medicine Association, 40% to 60% of patients treated for alcohol or other drug dependence return to active substance use within a year following treatment discharge. This emphasizes the need to follow a more holistic drug rehab process for achieving overall recovery and minimizing the possibilities of addiction relapse. In many instances, holistic therapies, such as yoga, meditation, acupuncture, and massage, are used to augment more traditional addiction treatment therapies, like individual counseling, behavioral therapies, and medical detox. Unfortunately, holistic treatment is an alternative approach to drug and alcohol rehab that is not available at all treatment programs.
What is holistic treatment?
Holistic treatment views the body as a whole entity rather than separate and unrelated body systems. All parts of the bodywork together as one.