The approach of the program, as I see it, is educational and humanistic. It also appears that it is guided by the assumption that the participants in the program, regardless of the severity of their substance abuse problems, will become able to accept individual responsibility for their personal behavior.
All the activities of the program are drug-free. Psychotropic medications are not utilized during detoxification or through any of the steps of the rehabilitative process. The assumption is that individuals may gain the skills to live a constructive drug-free life without dependence on psychoactive agents. The rehabilitative approach therefore does not try to substitute the drugs abused by the men and women in the program for other psychoactive agents whether apparently benign or illicit.
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