Change to Recovery from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Los Banos CA

Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people use to numb the internal pain, thus helping oneself cope. These issues have both physical and psychological components—anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain—Depression, Anxiety, Panic, OCD, Anger, Sadness, Fear.

Merced County Mental Health Department
(209) 827-2185
635 J Street
Los Banos, CA
Hotline
(209) 381-6800
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Women, Men, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired, Spanish

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City of Pasadena/Public Health Dept.
(626) 744-6070
1845 North Fair Oaks Avenue
Pasadena, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
DUI/DWI offenders
Language Services
Spanish

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Living Center
(209) 892-3487
821 E Street
Patterson, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Detoxification
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days), Outpatient, Partial hospitalization/day treatment
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Persons with HIV/AIDS, Pregnant/postpartum women, Women, Men

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North County Serenity House Inc
(760) 741-5098
130 South Fig Street
Escondido, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days)
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Persons with HIV/AIDS, Women, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
Spanish

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Family Service Agency of Marin County
(415) 491-5700x2069
555 Northgate Drive
San Rafael, CA
Hotline
(415) 499-1100
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
Spanish

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Kern County Hispanic Commission on
(661) 864-1698
2008 D Street
Bakersfield, CA
Services Provided
Halfway house

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MedMark Treatment Centers Inc
(559) 264-2700
1310 M Street
Fresno, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Detoxification
Types of Care
Outpatient
Language Services
Hmong

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Walden House
(415) 989-4902
1445 Chinook Court
San Francisco, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days)
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Persons with HIV/AIDS, Gays and Lesbians, Seniors/older adults, Women, Men, Criminal justice clients

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Morrisania West
(415) 552-4660x104
205 13th Street
San Francisco, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Partial hospitalization/day treatment
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Barstow Guidance Clinic
(760) 256-0376
309 East Mountain View
Barstow, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with HIV/AIDS, Gays and Lesbians, Seniors/older adults, Pregnant/postpartum women, Women, Men, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Change to Recovery from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

“Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic” the American Psychiatric profession believes. Once a drug addict, always a drug addict. Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, Holistic Healer says Relapse is just a part of the recovery and alcoholism/drug addiction is a disease “Not true”. “Using a holistic approach – Body, Mind and Spirit—people can be healed of alcoholism and drug addiction without relapse and without cravings by healing the underlying causes which precipitate the need to use alcohol or drugs to cope. A holistic approach incorporates life coaching, massage therapy, acupuncture, hypnotherapy, yoga, physical fitness, spiritual awakening, as well as Chinese herbology.”The ‘Once an addict always an addict and Relapse is a Part of Recovery’ paradigm has crippled and doomed many people to a life of struggle and self-deprecation throughout the world. “You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely chosen a substance to cope with the underlying conditions that you can heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.” Today, having healed hundreds of people labeled alcoholics and drug addicts, I speak with complete certainty that alcoholism and addictions are not diseases. If not a disease, what are they? The answer is that they are labels used to describe the states in which you find yourself after you have used alcohol or addictive drugs in large quantities or long enough period of time to have developed a dependency o...

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