Miscellaneous

For most, alcohol and drug rehab is the start to beginning the 12-steps toward recovery. The 12-step program is still the primarily used treatment approach to alcohol and drug addiction. Overcoming addiction is a process. Even with treatment, the impulses to use and to drink remain. The 12-steps provide a guideline for continuing sobriety. Involvement in the many anonymous recovery programs also provides all the needed assistance to stay sober. Cirque Lodge is founded on the 12-step program. A stay in drug rehab isn’t a long enough time in recovery for most. We strive to help our alcohol and drug rehab clients to have a solid foundation of the initial steps towards recovery.

When residents leave any addiction treatment program, they are once again exposed to many of the temptations they previously had succumbed to. 12-step meetings and support groups take on the role of assisting continued sobriety. Prior to leaving drug rehab at the Cirque Lodge, each client is given a number of options when it comes to continuing the 12-step process. These options are constructed into a continuing care plan for recovering success. Clients also get accustomed to the atmosphere 12-step meetings and working with addiction sponsors while still in treatment. They are educated and aware of the need and importance for continuing to work with such programs.

Throughout working the 12-steps of recovery, one needs to maintain that solid connection to a higher power. This is one of the steps covered in drug rehab at Cirque Lodge. One must establish this connection and be willing to turn over their addiction problems to that power. At the Cirque Lodge, we strive to provide vital spiritual experiences. Such experiences can create a solid connection to that power greater than our own. In the difficult times, when things just seem to be working against, that connection can be the strength to staying sober.

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