That is may favorite definition for the word CONFRONT. This definition immediately suggests that if you are avoiding or not squarely looking at something you are not confronting.

At first glance you may not think this has much to do with drug use or recovery from the effects of drugs. If so you may be surprised to find out it has very much to do with both.

Consider for a moment that Confronting is an Ability. So it is something that can be acquired, practiced and improved thereby. What good would a high confront or strong ability to face something without flinching or avoiding be? Take a look at the areas of your life you avoid. If you are avoiding it, can you at the same time be successful in handling it? Can you even really see it in detail? Conversely, those areas of life where you are capable, you might now notice the you can confront in those areas.

What if you found a method to raise your ability to confront? Might it translate into helping you better handle, face, see, and control those parts of life you tend to avoid? Many people notice the correlation between an improved confront and making their lives go better. Isn’t that interesting?

In the case of a person who has been using drugs, what is the level of their confront? They may be able to confront the idea of not using drugs and even consider the idea to be a good one—but an idea if very light and involves little effort to create or face. Ask them to take some action on the that idea and immediately they have to face force. It may be a force in their minds but you might as well have asked them to bench press a truck. This force may be the real or imagined withdrawal pain from an earlier attempt to quit.

What is the level of confront of a person under the influence of various drugs. Much of the behavior is not in agreement with the person himself when not on the drug so to what degree is the person himself really in control let alone able to really confront.

Here is a question. What was the person not confronting to start using drugs in the first place? Was it a lost love, lost job, possible loss of people considered important? If something like that is at the root of the drug use, raising confront is going to be very necessary to achieve a full and stable recovery.

The only program I know of that actually addresses this ability is the program on this site.

You must be able to face life to live it enjoyably!

The product of any drug rehab program is the person who can get on with his life without the interference of the effects of drugs on the body. People who no longer have the craving, no longer suffer the maladies due to the toxins. People able to function again. That is the product!

This rehab/detox program has been used to accomplish just that for the people too close to the Chernobyl disaster, the firemen suffering from exposure to toxins after 9/11 in New York, and now this endorsement from the Utah police who have been exposed to toxins and drugs from their work in closing down Meth Labs in their state.

Listen to the litany of symptoms before the program and what was said after by these officers. Hear what the Attorney General of Utah has to say about this program.

Utah Meth Cops Project

Many people crave agreement. They go where the crowd goes, do what the crowd does. They try to fit in. This can be a benefit in your life or work against you.

If you have to work as a team to accomplish some goal where many benefit, you need agreement and harmony to get the job done. In this case it and work in your favor.

On the other hand if you crave agreement from people who are causing harm to themselves and others, breaking the law, etc., then you could find yourself going along with this crowd. This can really backfire in your life.

So, how do you judge when it is wise to go along with the agreed-upon way of acting or not?

It is really simple. Just look at each situation and decide if it benefits survival or not. That is not just your survival but that of your family, your group at work, the society, etc. and simply decide whether it is really pro-survival or not. If not, don’t do it.

If you find that even though you know what the group is doing is not best for your survival yet you still can’t just walk away and find something better to do, then it is time to reevaluate your connections. You could write down the names of the people you know and look at each and decide if their influence helps or hinders your survival.

Then, start spending time with the people who help, bring you up, believe in you and your abilities, and don’t hang out with those who do otherwise.

This is a very important step after doing any detox program. Reconnecting with those who agree you should be doing drugs instead of the people who are validating you for helping yourself and improving yourself, can make your life challenging and set you up to fail.

Now is your chance to rise above any craving for agreement and continue to improve your life.

With a bit of success in life and conscious practice of this simple principle, those who would harm you, will find you impossible to knock down.

It is rather commonly know that in our modern society with strong chemicals everywhere that we are exposed to plenty toxins and our bodies have to deal with them. Take a typical day for an average American: drive to work, breath some diesel fumes; fill up the car with gas, breath some gas fumes, enter the professionally cleaned bathroom at work, and smell the chlorine; the new carpet in the reception area is now out-gassing formaldehyde which remains trapped in the temperature controlled building for weeks.

In our attempts to kill germs, kill crop eating bugs, and produce everything faster and cheaper, we may be gradually creating an unhealthy environment for ourselves and introducing toxins faster than human evolution can respond.

Add into that the “miracle” prescription drugs designed to dampen symptoms while ignoring causes and street drugs for personal highs or to “fit in” socially and the body can get overwhelmed and the immune system depressed. When that happens the normal fight against other life forms that want to use you body as a host like bacteria, parasites and viruses have a better chance of really multiplying.

What does the body do naturally when this occurs? It detoxifies! This detoxification may take an unpleasant form but the body must get rid of the problem (the toxins and/or inhospitable life forms) somehow. It may detoxify through the skin, the bowels, the mouth, nose or chest but something’s got to give.

One of the bodies temporary solutions is to store some of the toxins in the fat of the body. That takes them out of circulation somewhat. What if a person had taken LSD at some point in his life. I am told that a millionth of an ounce of the active ingredient (wheat rust) is enough to trigger a full blown trip. That could be stored in body fat for 30 years and one day it is dislodged for some reason and the person could find himself in trouble. I hope he isn’t driving on the freeway next to me or landing a passenger plane in a storm when that happens.

The first point I’m trying to make is the importance of detoxification. There is a great deal of information on the subject available and many methods a person could try.

The second point is that any drug rehabilitation program that fails to address detoxification would be doing a disservice.

And my final point is that any detoxification program that fails to deal also with the fat in the body would be incomplete.

Welcome to this blog. This is my first entry. It would seem appropriate to start off by suggesting that there is hope. Many people, habitual users of one drug or another, do get off the drug and do get their lives back.

It takes some work, determination and desire and often no small amount of help from friends and family. But, it can be done, and is being done all across the country.

Of course, in many cases, the person who has recovered physically, still has to make amends to clean up their relationships with family and friends that were damaged while one’s life was still greatly influenced by a drug or drugs.

It may be helpful for the person recovering to know that friends and family are so grateful to see you functioning better in life that much of the needed repair is already done.

Check this blog from time to time as I will be posting suggestions that will assist in keeping you from ever falling back into old and unsuccessful patterns or losing your gains.