Harmony's approach views addiction - whether to
alcohol or another drug - as a medical disease. As this
disease progresses, it has dramatic, often devastating consequences
that impact important life areas - health, jobs, finances,
relationships, and value systems. Our treatment program is
specifically designed to treat the physical, emotional, spiritual
and psychosocial aspects of this disease - a comprehensive
approach to recovery. We believe that with guided help and
through a process of on-going change, our students can transform
themselves into the responsible, stable, productive, and
capable individuals they know themselves to be.
We strongly believe in the principles and philosophy embodied
in 12-Step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous and Cocaine
Anonymous. We find that this approach - outlined in
1935 and used successfully by millions of people thus far-
offers the most responsible path to recovery for people
with chemical
dependency problems. Our goal is to help students through
the first five steps of the 12-Step program during their
28-day stay in treatment - and to help them see the
long-term value of a support group like AA as the key building
block in their recovery plan.
We believe that this is a chronic, progressive disease.
However, it is a disease from which many people can and
do recover - when
they take responsibility to actively treat it on a regular
basis like other chronic diseases, such as diabetes or
heart disease. We help people learn about their disease and
the
steps they can take to keep it in remission. By doing so,
they begin to enjoy a more meaningful and personally rewarding
life in recovery rather than continuing to live in the
pain and misery of active addiction.
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