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Road to Recovery
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Road To Recovery:
Road To Recovery is a Men’s 90-day drug and alcohol program and Transitional Living Center (informally known as a Halfway House), located in Houston, Texas.
We are committed to providing cost-effective, community-centered, physical, and emotional safety and growth for chemically dependent individuals and their families.
Alcoholism and addiction to other chemicals is a disease of the mind, the body, and of the spirit.
It was unofficially recognized as a disease by many experts long before the advent of Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1930s (as far back as the 1700s) and officially recognized by the medical establishment in the 1950s.
In 1991 it was officially recognized as both a physical and mental disease.
(Wikipedia: Alcoholism (Disease))
It is a disease of the mind (just as surely as schizophrenia or manic-depressive) because once a person ingests the alcohol or other drug (alcohol is a drug – it just happens to be legal and socially acceptable) they cannot stop. Willpower cannot combat the mental obsession to drink/ get high because the brain (subconscious) does not “ask” the will for permission. The decision to drink/ use drugs are made in a lower part of the mind – the subconscious. Much like the “fight or flight” mechanism, the subconscious does not ask the conscious for permission. The decision is made before you realize it.
Addiction/ Alcoholism is a disease of the body. The body changes to adapt to the poisonous chemicals and when the poisons stop being introduced, the body chemistry has to change back. This causes the body discomfort (sometimes extreme discomfort and sickness) and in the case of alcohol and benzodiazepines, sudden withdrawal can even be fatal. The body does not like discomfort. Since the body remembers that the solution to the discomfort of withdrawal is to ingest more of the drug, the compulsion to continue to use/ drink is very, very strong.
Addiction/ Alcoholism is also a disease of the spirit. Look in the lifeless eyes of anybody who is caught up in this disease, and you will intuitively know that something is dreadfully wrong. The lights are not on. The entire being of the addict is enslaved by a very cruel master.
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