SYSTEM FOR CHANGE

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When one looks at the addiction community, as the failure rates continue to rise, and drug addiction continues to grow, it is easy to come to a conclusion that something must change.  There are many dedicated treatment professionals, medical professionals and treatment facilities throughout the US working on this problem every day, but something is missing in our quest for a cure to drug and alcohol addiction.  Our team at NARA has identified three areas where we believe a National Charity (NARA) might be able to tremendously help, and contribute to this already enormous effort, to rid this country of the scourge of addiction taking place every day in ALL of our States.  

• Our Industry Experts all come back with one need they witness in Treatment Centers across our country, the increased requirement for one-on-one counseling to achieve a successful treatment.  Often times this is limited by financial constraints of patient and/or facility, and the number of hours don’t meet the critical thresholds required to stop the problem and avoid relapse.

 

• Treatment and Recovery physicians and scientists need to be enabled to share their findings and success stories with the medical community as a whole.  Many General Physicians, Psychologists, and Specialists have no idea what is taking place in hundreds of Treatment Facilities and research facilities dealing with addiction 24/7.

 

• We need a national communication effort to help educate businesses on how they can help in the cause and improve their bottom line performance. Relapse to addiction recovery treatments are still extremely high, and often times this can result from peer pressure within a patients new work environment. Employment is key to self worth and a successful path to recovery, so a patients work environment is an important element to success as well.