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The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery QUOTES

1 " People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

2 " Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

3 " Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe. "

― Chris Prentiss, , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

4 " You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

5 " It's the causes, not the dependent person, that must be corrected. That's why I see the United States' War on Drugs as being fought in an unrealistic manner. This war is focused on fighting drug dealers and the use of drugs here and abroad, when the effort should be primarily aimed at treating and curing that causes that compel people to reach for drugs. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

6 " Depression can be due to a low endocrine function, nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar problems, food allergies, or systemic yeast infection. Depression can also result from medical illnesses such as stroke, heart attack, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and hormonal disorder. It can also be caused by a serious loss, a difficult relationship, a financial problem, or any stressful, unwelcome life change. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

7 " One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of any mind- altering or mood-altering medications that our clients are taking. As soon as any non essential drugs are out of their systems, the feelings they were trying to suppress usually emerge. When that happens, we can see what symptoms the client was masking with drugs or alcohol. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

8 " The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct cause is diagnosed, healing will take place and hoped-for cure will come about. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

9 " Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent with what is true, an inability to cope with current conditions, or a combination of these four causes, know this: not only are all the causes of dependency within you, but all the solutions are within you as well. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

10 " The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I'm aware. "

― Chris Prentiss, , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

11 " There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

12 " It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

13 " We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you use substances to alter your mood, to cover up your sadness, to ease your heartbreak, to lighten your stress load, to blur your painful memories, to escape your hurtful reality, or to make your unbearable days or nights bearable. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

14 " Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

15 " If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

16 " To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

17 " I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

18 " In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the plate and took action to help a crippled population. All credit for the establishment of their wonderful, life-saving group goes to them and to those who came after them who have continued the tradition. However, there are hundreds of millions of people who still need help who are not among the estimated two or three million who attend twelve-step meetings. "

― Chris Prentiss, , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

19 " Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude. "

― Chris Prentiss, , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

20 " Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop. "

― , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery