Drug Addiction Detox Facilities
I feel Good Until I Walk Out The Door
I used to be a regular at "Hooper Detox" in Portland, OR. All told I've probably been in detox or treatment around 40 times. One of the things I noticed was when I was in, what I would call, the good ones, I felt okay. Then I'd leave and in a day or so I'd feel awful again and be back on the road to getting drugs. The question is obviously - Why?
Now that I've been clean for a good long while I think I know part of the answer, at least where the Hooper Detox experience is concerned. One of the things that Hooper does is they include Vitamins, Electrolytes, Herbal Teas and Acupuncture as part of the detox regimen. I never noticed any of these things making one bit of difference in the way I felt. But my idea of feeling different was to shoot heroin. I never took aspirin or herbal medicine or vitamins because I thought that it was pointless. Hey, if you can't feel it - right now - it's not working.
Well I've learned something about what I put in my body and the effect it has on my feelings. Especially the accumulative effect of things like vitamins and herbs. So what changed when I walked out? What did I stop doing? Of course I stopped doing, and getting, all the things the detox center was giving me. I didn't ask what I should continue with when I left and get a list of things to find and use. I just left.
So I left the vitamins, herbs and electrolytes behind and - I missed them - although I never made the connection. What I'm trying to say is - Get them, take them, it's connected. In fact there is no greater connection than the connection between - what you eat and how you feel.
There is also the energy system connection. Direct manipulation of the energy (Qi) system may not feel like an instance rush we get from drugs but it is one of the best things a person can do for their overall health. SO when you consider all I left behind when I walked out of those detox centers it's not surprising that I soon felt bad again and was bound to fix it the only way I knew how.
So take it with you when you go. Get it as soon as you can where ever you end up and don't stop the "treatment" when you leave the program. The real treatment is treating the way you feel. It's treating our overall health that will be the greatest help on the road to drug free wellness.