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Like the American Medical Association and virtually all
professional medical and mental health organizations, Quest
Recovery and Prevention Services defines alcoholism and other
addictions as a chronic disease.
We believe that treatment and long-term recovery from the
disease of addiction requires five main components:
- Total abstinence from all mood-altering substances
- Honesty as a guiding principle in treatment and life in
general, including ongoing honesty with all doctors and
other medical/mental health professionals to assure that all
treatment and prescribed medications support ongoing
recovery.
- Building a real-life social support system that
encourages and upholds abstinence and recovery on an ongoing
basis.
- The active participation of the client’s family and/or
other significant others in treatment and ongoing recovery.
- The willingness of the client to not only attend
treatment, but to make changes in his/her daily life to make
recovery a permanent reality beyond the time of treatment.
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