Karen Stewart asked:


Freedom Laser Recovery may help free you from your addiction.

Established in April 2003, Los Angeles, California based Freedom Laser Therapy has helped thousands of smokers overcome their nicotine addictions. Freedom Laser Therapy’s quit smoking program has received media coverage on over 100 news networks and has been featured on numerous television shows. In March 2009, Freedom is pioneering a new addiction laser therapy treatment program and will be licensing it worldwide. The global launch of Freedom’s new addiction program is being branded under the name, Freedom Laser Recovery. The Freedom Laser Recovery Program is a non-invasive, painless, and drug free approach for treating drug and alcohol addictions, a treatment process virtually unknown in the United States to addiction suffers. This low-level laser therapy procedure will be conducted under a nationwide clinical research trial, which is overseen by an independent Institutional Review Board (IRB). The purpose of the study is to learn the laser therapy procedure’s safety and effectiveness, as it relates to addictions. The FDA has already deemed low-level laser equipment as “non significant risk devices”. This exclusive addiction treatment program will only be available to healthcare professionals throughout the world.

The laser therapy program is a modern form of an energy based addiction treatment, which has been successfully pioneered by Canadian Laser Therapist & Clinical Counselor George Lucio, which was applied during his 23 years of clinical application using low-level lasers. Lucio assisted Freedom in the program’s development by providing his extensive knowledge in the field of behavioral sciences and clinical experience to detail a specific drug and alcohol addiction protocol. Lucio is also the

co-creator of the Freedom Laser Recovery’s audio therapy program, and he narrates the addiction treatment video.

There are various treatments for drug and alcohol addiction, but thus far most receive low to moderate results aiding individuals in conquering their addictions. Drug & Alcohol Addiction Laser Therapy operates on the same principles as acupuncture. Stimulating specific acupuncture points on the hands, face, ears and wrists creates an endorphin release, which is intended to help alleviate drug & alcohol withdrawal symptoms. The endorphin release can cause a person to relax as they are detoxifying from the addictive substance or substances. Once the person overcomes their physical withdrawals, it becomes easier to cope with the psychological aspects of defeating their addiction. Common symptoms that the laser therapy procedure can help overcome are withdrawal, stress, depression, insomnia, anxiety, nervousness, agitation, hostility, irritability, fatigue nausea, shakiness, headaches, cravings, fatigue, and loss of appetite,
Freedom Laser Recovery is an outpatient program, which allows our clients the ability to conduct their day-to-day lives without being consumed by their addiction. This is not a group oriented treatment program. Our viewpoint is that addiction is a personal experience whereby the subject entered into their addiction on their own, and must get out of it on their own. Each client is provided the resource “laser therapy” to help alleviate physical withdrawal, and the Freedom Laser Recovery psychological training and education is crucial in the process for conquering their substance abuse problem. By the time the client completes their Freedom Laser Recovery treatment process, they should have a solid understanding of how drug and alcohol addictions create physical and psychological dependence.

Our belief is that the strongest willed person can become addicted to any narcotic, if they use long enough and hard enough. Addiction affects all walks of life from doctors, lawyers, teachers, judges, preachers, housewives, entertainers, homeless, college students, youths, and countless others. The Freedom Laser Recovery program does not follow a 12-step method where by a person needs to declare that they are powerless over their addiction, as well as believe a higher power can provide them strength to free them from their addiction. Furthermore, Freedom Laser Recovery does not adhere to the theory that addiction is a disease. Substance abuse affects everyone and has no boundaries. The key to overcoming an addiction is to first fully understand how they occur, and then learn the psychological tools on how to avoid ever using the addictive substance again.

Addiction is used in many contexts to describe an obsession, compulsion, or excessive physical or psychological dependence. An addiction is a characterized as a state in which the body relies on a substance for normal functioning and develops into physical and physiological dependence. When the drug or substance which a person is dependent on is suddenly removed, it will cause immediate withdrawal symptoms. Addiction is generally associated with increased tolerance to the substance. Additional dosages or amounts are needed in order to obtain the same euphoria or feeling of high.

If you have become dependent on drug or alcohol, you are not the first, nor the last. Others have been successful at getting off drugs or alcohol, and so can you. Withdrawal from drugs or alcohol can be difficult and challenging, but with the advancement of low-level lasers, withdrawal and cravings can be minimal, and in some cases non-existent. This exclusive Freedom Laser Recovery program involves a preprogrammed neurostimulation laser, which triggers the brain to produce its own natural opiate substitutes to overcome withdrawal and cravings. The usage of laser is intended to induce an endorphin release causing a feeling a well being which can help reduce stress during the crucial detoxification period. Behavior modification techniques are taught through relaxing educational and therapeutic videos discussing all aspects of addiction. The series of videos are watched during the therapy session to aid in overcoming the psychological dependency. In addition, the client is provided with a vitamin and antioxidant program to support the body as it heals. After the initial client intake, each follow-up visit lasts approximately 30-minutes. In most cases, only 6-10 sessions are recommended to break the addiction.

Freedom Laser Recovery is an exclusive personalized addiction treatment program, which is intended to help alleviate the physical need for drugs and alcohol, at the same time teaching the client how to remain abstinent from the substance they are addicted to. Addiction can turn into a very serious problem; it can become financially devastating and ultimately life threatening, our goal is to provide our clients with an array of vital resources to free them from their addiction.



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lillywilliam asked:


Behavioral therapies can include counseling, psychotherapy, support groups, or family therapy. Treatment medications offer help in suppressing the withdrawal syndrome and drug craving and in blocking the effects of drugs. In addition, studies show that treatment for heroin addiction using methadone at an adequate dosage level combined with behavioral therapy reduces death rates and many health problems associated with heroin abuse.

In general, the more treatment given, the better the results. Many patients require other services as well, such as medical and mental health services and HIV prevention services. Patients who stay in treatment longer than 3 months usually have better outcomes than those who stay less time. Patients who go through medically assisted withdrawal to minimize discomfort but do not receive any further treatment, perform about the same in terms of their drug use as those who were never treated. Over the last 25 years, studies have shown that treatment works to reduce drug intake and crimes committed by drug-dependent people. Researchers also have found that drug abusers who have been through treatment are more likely to have jobs.

Types of Treatment Programs

The ultimate goal of all drug abuse treatment is to enable the patient to achieve lasting abstinence, but the immediate goals are to reduce drug use, improve the patient’s ability to function, and minimize the medical and social complications of drug abuse.

There are several types of drug abuse treatment programs. Short-term methods last less than 6 months and include residential therapy, medication therapy, and drug-free outpatient therapy. Longer term treatment may include, for example, methadone maintenance outpatient treatment for opiate addicts and residential therapeutic community treatment.

In maintenance treatment for heroin addicts, people in treatment are given an oral dose of a synthetic opiate, usually methadone hydrochloride or levo-alpha-acetyl methadol (LAAM), administered at a dosage sufficient to block the effects of heroin and yield a stable, noneuphoric state free from physiological craving for opiates. In this stable state, the patient is able to disengage from drug-seeking and related criminal behavior and, with appropriate counseling and social services, become a productive member of his or her community.

Outpatient drug-free treatment does not include medications and encompasses a wide variety of programs for patients who visit a clinic at regular intervals. Most of the programs involve individual or group counseling. Patients entering these programs are abusers of drugs other than opiates or are opiate abusers for whom maintenance therapy is not recommended, such as those who have stable, well-integrated lives and only brief histories of drug dependence.

Therapeutic communities (TCs) are highly structured programs in which patients stay at a residence, typically for 6 to 12 months. Patients in TCs include those with relatively long histories of drug dependence, involvement in serious criminal activities, and seriously impaired social functioning. The focus of the TC is on the resocialization of the patient to a drug-free, crime-free lifestyle.

Short-term residential programs, often referred to as chemical dependency units, are often based on the “Minnesota Model” of treatment for alcoholism. These programs involve a 3- to 6-week inpatient treatment phase followed by extended outpatient therapy or participation in 12-step self-help groups, such as Narcotics Anonymous or Cocaine Anonymous. Chemical dependency programs for drug abuse arose in the private sector in the mid-1980s with insured alcohol/cocaine abusers as their primary patients. Today, as private provider benefits decline, more programs are extending their services to publicly funded patients.

Methadone maintenance programs are usually more successful at retaining clients with opiate dependence than are therapeutic communities, which in turn are more successful than outpatient programs that provide psychotherapy and counseling. Within various methadone programs, those that provide higher doses of methadone (usually a minimum of 60 mg.) have better retention rates. Also, those that provide other services, such as counseling, therapy, and medical care, along with methadone generally get better results than the programs that provide minimal services.

Drug treatment programs in prisons can succeed in preventing patients’ return to criminal behavior, particularly if they are linked to community-based programs that continue treatment when the client leaves prison. Some of the more successful programs have reduced the rearrest rate by one-fourth to one-half. For example, the “Delaware Model,” an ongoing study of comprehensive treatment of drug- addicted prison inmates, shows that prison-based treatment including a therapeutic community setting, a work release therapeutic community, and community-based aftercare reduces the probability of rearrest by 57 percent and reduces the likelihood of returning to drug use by 37 percent.

http://www.synergytreatment.com



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