12 Steps and Drug Rehab
Depending upon your first experience with 12 step treatment, you may or may not be a little bit weary. Many feel that they couldn’t stay clean without it while others feel uncomfortable with the lingo and open sharing that often happens at meetings. No matter how you feel about it, if you are headed into drug rehab, you’ll most likely experience some form of 12 step treatment whether it’s through support groups at the facility or required outside meetings. One huge benefit: 12 step meetings are one thing that can go with you when you return home from drug rehab, allowing you a measure of comfort and structure that may be the very thing that comes between you and drug and alcohol relapse.
The 12 Steps
If you decide to fully involve yourself in the 12 step program inside or outside of drug treatment, you can get a sponsor of another member of 12 steps to help you “work the steps” or talk about and apply them to your life. The following are the original Twelve Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His Will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
The Experts on 12 Step Treatment and Drug Rehab
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse and their online Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A Research Based Guide:
“Self-help groups can complement and extend the effects of professional treatment. The most prominent self-help groups are those affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), and Cocaine Anonymous (CA), all of which are based on the 12-step model, and Smart Recovery®. Most drug addiction treatment programs encourage patients to participate in a self-help group during and after formal treatment.”
12 Steps and Drug Addiction Treatment at The Canyon
At The Canyon, we combine traditional 12 step groups with alternative therapies so that everyone who comes to stay with us will benefit from a well-rounded treatment program.
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