Breaking the Bars Neural Recovery vs. Incarceration Changing Public Views, the Judicial System, and the Medical Profession on the Social/Moral Issues Surrounding

Breaking the BarsNeural Recovery vs. Incarceration

Changing Public Views, the Judicial System, and the Medical Profession on the Social/Moral Issues

Surrounding Addictive Behavior

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Would you give up drinking for this?

Volstead Act Legitimizes Addiction

The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the production, sale, and transport of "intoxicating liquors,“ but it did not define "intoxicating liquors" or provide penalties.

The production, importation, and distribution of alcoholic beverages was taken over by criminal gangs, which fought each other for market control in violent confrontations, including murder.

Source: How Booze Built America: The Discovery Channel

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/how-booze-built-america/videos/this-balls-for-you.htm

Alcohol Controlled by the MobThe Volstead Act actually created three legs to the now underground criminal alcohol industry:

Importation from Europe: Underground EmpireManufacturers: MoonshinersDistributors: Bootleggers


Saint Valentine's Day MassacreThe Saint Valentine’s Massacre - the 1929 murder of seven mob associates as part of a Prohibition-era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran. Former members of the Egan's Rats gang were also suspected of having played a significant role in the incident, assisting Capone.


MoonshinersMoonshine, white lightning, mountain dew, hooch, and Tennessee white whiskey are terms used to describe illicitly produced high-proof distilled spirits. Stills using old automotive radiators as condensers were particularly dangerous; in some cases, the liquor contained glycol, products from antifreeze causing people to go blind and deaf.


Bootleggers

Bootleggers distributed moonshine. The mob had the financial resources to fund the development of faster cars to get away from the police – an industry that led to the creation of NASCAR.


Kennedy Bootlegging Fortune Joseph P. Kennedy traded in illegal booze. Some believe the family business went underground during the dry years. Harvard classmates say he supplied the illicit booze for alumni events.

In 1973 mob boss Frank Costello said he and Kennedy had been bootlegging partners. It is thought that bootlegging is one area where Kennedy built his fortune and in doing so was able to fund his son, John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign.


America’s Alcohol Legacy

When JFK was president he wanted to put a man on the moon… and the financing to make Buzz Aldron the first man to walk on the moon came from alcohol money and the Volstead Act.


Alcoholic Anonymous

More than half a century ago, Alcoholics Anonymous introduced the idea that alcoholism is a disease as opposed to a moral failing.

The failure of the 12 years of prohibition followed by decades of neuroscience research has shown that moral teachings do not stop most alcoholics from drinking, and incarceration does not work either.


The shortest paragraph in The Big Book appears on page 88:

“It works – it really does.”

When science-based evidence and the Big Book are combined they become a very powerful tool for addiction recovery.

However, one must be able to count to 12 to do the 12-steps.

Science as it Relates to Addiction

Science has now become an ever-expanding universe; involving physiology, genetics, neuroscience, neuro-imaging, psychiatry, education and spiritualism.

Thus having a profound impact on addiction treatment.

The Father of Pharmacology

The Muslim Avicenna, the “father of pharmacology” authored The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine, categorizing human ailments and prescribed cures. It was the medical textbook for European universities into the 17th century.

Circa 980 - 1037 AD

Evolution of Pharmacology

At the research level, the conflicts teeter between Hippocratic beneficence vs. worldly profit.

At the clinical level, pharmacology manifests a tension between therapy vs. toxicity, and benefit vs. side effect.

Historical Use of Opioids

Humans have been using opioids for the last

6,000 years.

The earliest recorded mention of opioid use was around 4000 BC, in Asia and, later, Europe and America. Notably their use is high in the United States.

The Brain’s Opiate ReceptorOpiates such as morphine have long been known to effectively reduce pain. In 1974, Candace Pert and Saul Snyder discover that the brain has its own receptors for opiates. This provides evidence that the brain must produce something on its own that is akin to drugs like morphine.

Pert's and Snyder’s discovery enables other researchers to find opiate-like molecules produced by the brain – endorphins; such as those produced during exercise. They are the body’s own natural mood enhancers and/or painkillers.

Source: The New Medicine

Suboxone Worse Than HeroinSuboxone (Buprenorphine) was first marketed in the 1980s as an analgesic.

Suboxone is the first opioid medication approved under the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA) for the treatment of opioid dependence in an office-based setting.

Suboxone Abuse

Today, Suboxone replaces methadone, intended for only 3-5 days for withdrawal from Heroin but addicts stay on it for weeks, months, even years.

Pharmacological Treatment Is Addictive

By 1956, the New York Times was heralding “Alcoholic Peril Found in Drugs: Some Tranquilizing Therapy May Be Habit Forming….” Benzodiazepines (e.g. Valium, Librium, Xanax, etc.) made their debut in 1960, and in subsequent decade’s were used in treating seizures, anxiety and alcoholism. We now know that detoxing from benzos causes life-threatening seizures.

By 1963, scientists from the Addiction Research Center of the National Institutes of Health began warning that benzodiazepines were “drugs of addiction,” just like barbiturates.

Pharmacoligics – Dangerous & Addictive

As an understanding of brain chemistry progressed, so did the chemical response.

As one class of pills followed another, each was declared “safe” and “non-habit-forming,” only to be found as dangerous & addictive.

Happy Pill History

Amphetamine

While ‘speed’ was used and abused on the street during the 1960s and 1970s, it did not raise the public alarm that LSD did.

Like many legal synthetics, it was considered “safe” and “non-addictive.” Indeed, Desoxyn is still legally prescribed and is still unsafe and addictive.

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Incarceration of Addiction

In 1951, Congress introduced mandatory minimum sentencing to the nation. Judicial discretion was pushed aside as judges were forced to sentence anyone in possession of more than 4 oz. of a hard drug to a minimum of 15 years.

In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared the ‘War on Drugs’. During the Reagan administration the number of people behind bars for non-violent drug offenses increased from 50,000 to 500,000.

The War on Drugs has never been about Drugs.

The ‘War on Drugs’ was also known as the new Jim Crow act because of the mass incarceration of African-Americans.

War on Drugs The 40 year history of the War on Drugs has resulted in 40 million arrests at a cost of over one trillion dollars.

The film: The House I Live In examines how political and economic corruption have failed the 40 year war.

In 1992 Bill Clinton advocated for treatment instead of incarceration as a campaign issue – but after being elected he rejected the concept.

Attorney General Eric Holder calls for scaled-back use of mandatory

minimum drug sentences.

August 2013

Access to RecoveryAccess to Recovery (ATR) was announced by President George W. Bush in the 2003 State of the Union address as a 3-year, $600-million program intended to expand the array of addiction and recovery services available to individuals with alcohol and other drug problems.

The initiative, as originally described by President Bush, was intended to provide 100,000 people annually with access to a comprehensive continuum of treatment and recovery support service. 2001 - 2009

Year of the Brain“Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s; developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries ten times more powerful. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.”

-- President Barack Obama

In April 2013 President Barack Obama asked Congress to spend $100 million in 2014 to start a new project to map the human brain in hopes of eventually finding cures for diseases like Alzheimer's.

Big Pharma

For latter half of the 20th century, Americans pursued their illusory happiness in the “legal” psychotherapeutic drugs developed and marketed by Big Pharma. And their lessons in the pursuit of happiness were not lost on the emerging generations. Young people discovered their parents’ medicine cabinets.

The pills are out of the box and onto the street, and down in the family room, and traded in locker rooms at middle school. Prescription drugs, which once were the source of power to the psychiatric profession, are now out of the sorcerer’s control.

Psychotropic Drugs and Gun Violence

Everyone’s Talking About:

The ties that bind: gun violence and psychotropic drugs like the recent Batman theater and Newtown school shooters.

You don’t need a PhD in scientific logic to realize the hard proof lies in the percentage of shooters prescribed SSRI’s.

This Not This

Prescription EpidemicAmerica has an epidemic problem with ‘legal’ drugs being used illegally. Nearly 150 million prescriptions for the legal opiates hydrocodone and oxycodone are written annually. Inevitably, these reach ‘The Street’, where they sell for upwards of $100 per pill. Additionally, enough prescriptions for benzodiazapines are written to cover a third of the American population. These, too, are piped to ‘the street’ or shared illicitly.

High Society

In 2002, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that 29.6 million Americans had used pain relievers non-medically; by 2005, that number had risen to 32.7 million.

Americans like to think that the road to social sanity is paved with good intentions, but it may be paved with the cobblestones of hard and irrefutable science.

Anatomy of an EpidemicMagic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of

Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America

Whitaker sounds the alarm. The arrogance of inventing diseases, while guessing at the biological origin, is blindly dangerous. The protocol of prescribing one drug after another in an attempt to block, rather than work with nature, may give short term relief but provides few, if any, long term answers.

Whitaker’s investigations show that “Do no harm" has taken a back seat to agendas which, at best, ignore it's intent, at worst are opposed to it.

Nora D. Volkow, M.D., became Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in 2003. NIDA supports most of the world's research on drug abuse and addiction.

Dr. Volkow's work has been instrumental in demonstrating that addiction is a brain disease. She pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate the toxic effects of drugs and their addictive properties.

Introduction to the Addiction Brain Disease Model

Dr. Nora D. VolkowNIDA Director

The Recovery RevolutionRecent scientific advances have revolutionized our understanding of addiction, which is now recognized as a chronic relapsing brain disease expressed in the form of compulsive behaviors.

This understanding has improved our ability to prevent and treat addiction.

Healthy Brain Alcohol Damaged Brain Drug Damaged Brain

Courtesy of Dr. Amens

The brains of addicts are abnormal, both in structure and in function. Thus repairing the function is crucial to recovery.

Volkow stated: “The brains of addicted people have been modified by the drug in such a way that absence of the drug makes a signal to their brain that is equivalent to the signal of when you are starving, as if the individual was in a state of deprivation, when taking the drug is indispensable for survival. It’s as powerful as that.”

Dr. D. Corydon Hammond of the University of Utah School of Medicine suggests that alcoholics and their children find it difficult to relax and tend to self-medicate with alcohol and other drugs in an effort to treat their own brain pathology. Research has found that addicts have lower levels of alpha and theta brain waves and an excess of fast beta activity.

Brain Damage

By this time – the damage done to the brain from various factors; genetics, in-utero-toxicity, nutrition, environment, trauma, abuse, and early use of alcohol and drugs, takes its toll on brain functioning. Fear is another factor that has a profound effect on brain development.

In the case of brain dysfunction, we need to blame ourselves, our psychology or our attitude. In the case of physical health problems, we tend to blame Lady Luck or the hammer that smashed our toe. But both types of dysfunctions have the same root- brain dysfunction.

Care & Feeding of the Brain

The remedy of brain dysfunction often lies, literally in our own hands – and in what those hands are transporting toward the mouth. Simple attention to food rather than professional help is sometimes all it takes to improve our lives, outlook, and physically health.

There are lessons to be learned from addiction science – particularly in America, where the most overfed population in the history of the world is also one of the most nutritionally compromised.

The nervous system influences how we think, feel, and act, and acts as a conduit for how the entire of the body functions. The function of the CNS, including a balance of neuro-transmitters, plays an essential and central role in the health of all body systems.

Neuroscience

Innovative science-based healing brings attention to the brain as the common denominator of all pathological and mental illness; i.e., the neurotransmitter/ communication system that signals every other cell in the body, and the function of brain waves.

Neuroscience

NeuroScience, Inc. advocates an assess-address approach to nervous system function.

NeuroScience, Inc. works with healthcare providers to develop Targeted Amino Acid Therapy (TAATTM) programs designed to address the spectrum of neurotransmitter & hormone imbalances.

LENS – Low Energy Neurofeedback Therapy

LENS is a new form of brainwave biofeedback and neurofeedback that is optimizing human function in the areas of mood, cognition, and energy levels.

The advent of the emerging field of neuroscience has put LENS in the spotlight as a revolutionary technique for restoring optimal brain function.

Len Ochs, Ph.D. pioneers the Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS), which utilizes gentle, non-invasive EEG biofeedback and neurofeedback. The system has a history of showing promising clinical and experimental results throughout its 15 years of evolution.

Effect of the LENS on the Brain: Standard Map

Neurotherapy as an Adjunct Therapy for Addiction Recovery

78 Caucasian 5 Native American7 Hispanic 9 African American1 Asian

Table 1Demographic Profile of Clients (N of 100)

Source: Neurotherapy as an Adjunct Therapy for Addiction Recovery: The Integrated Solution, Judith Ann Miller, PH.D., CAC III , Julie Ann Steenhoek , Lawrence Ted Ulibarri, CAC II , Sally Maxey-Schabow, MSW, Mary Kaye Kraback, AA, CAC III


Table 2Prevalence of Drug of Addiction

86 Alcohol 11 Heroin8 Cocaine 7 Methamphetamines6 Marijuana 31 Prescription Medications

73 Tobacco 5 Synthetic Opiates70 Poly-substance

Source: Neurotherapy as an Adjunct Therapy for Addiction Recovery: The Integrated Solution, Judith Ann Miller, PH.D., CAC III , Julie Ann Steenhoek , Lawrence Ted Ulibarri, CAC II , Sally Maxey-Schabow, MSW, Mary Kaye Kraback, AA, CAC III


Table 3

Prevalence of Symptoms Suffered by ClientsAfter 30 Days 100 % of 100 clients had no more symptoms

25 Bipolar Disorder 100 Sleep Problems86 Anxiety 2 ADHD86 Depression 5 PTSD

2 Migraines 76 Anger1 Erectile Dysfunction

Source: Neurotherapy as an Adjunct Therapy for Addiction Recovery: The Integrated Solution, Judith Ann Miller, PH.D., CAC III , Julie Ann Steenhoek , Lawrence Ted Ulibarri, CAC II , Sally Maxey-Schabow, MSW (, Mary Kaye Kraback, AA, CAC III

Nine Middle Pre-Frontal Functions of the Brain

Dr. Daniel J. Siegel in his book The Mindful Brain (2007) identifies nine functions of the middle prefrontal cortex, each of which is discussed below:

1.Bodily Regulation – The first of the nine middle prefrontal functions is brain regulation which serves as the brakes and acceleration for coordination and balance. When the neurological system is balanced all other bodily systems are automatically balanced. Substance abuse and subsequent addiction causes all bodily systems to become dysregulated. (Critchley, et al, 2003; Lane, et al, 2001; Nauta, 1971; Onguii & Price, 2000; Porrin & Goldman-Rakic, 1982).


2. Attuned Communication – There seems to be a co communication breakdown within an addicted brain. When the neurological system is balanced communication becomes attuned resulting in effective coordination of input between two minds (Bar-On, et al, 2003; Beer, et al, 2003; Mah, et al, 2005; Nitchke, et al, 2005; Shore, 2003; Trevarthen, 2001)..

3. Emotional Balance – An optimally operating neurological system allows the executive functions of the brain to provide the capacity for humans, monkeys, and mice to maintain emotional balance. Research shows that the brain’s middle prefrontal regions actually monitor and inhibit limbic firing with the optimal level of bidirectional flow from the subcortical limbic to the middle prefrontal regions (Blumberg, et al, 2003); Busch & Posner, 2000; Davidson et al, 2000; Happaney et al, 2004; Phan et al, 2002; & Tucker et al, 2995).


4. Response Flexibility – Do mice have the capacity to respond at the emotional level? Personal observations indicate that mice have a reactive response. One day many years ago I found a nest of baby mice on my red fuzzy bedspread. My cowboy husband gathered them up and flushed them down the toilet. A bit later, my 10-year-old son came to me crying. He said: “That momma mouse is frantically looking for her babies.” To respond in an active or proactive manner is a neurological choice that allows responsive flexibility. Research has shown that to make the right choice becomes a process of assessing ongoing stimuli, the delay of reaction, selection from a variety of possible options, and the selection of the responsive action. Thus the middle prefrontal brain is responsible to work in conjunction with the side areas to carry out the responsive function (Carter & Cohen, 1999; Chambers et al, 2006; Fellows, 2004; Gehring & Fencsik, 2004; Gottfried et al, 2003; Schoenbaum, 2001; & Tucker & Swick, 1999).


5. Empathy – The data shows that for a human to express empathy the brain’s middle prefrontal regions can actually assess attributes on another human to determine what might be going inside that person (Carr et al, 2003; Decety & Jackson, 2004; Heisel & Beatty, 2006); Shamay-Tsoory et all, 2005; & deWaal & Preston, 2002).

6. Insight (Self-Knowing Awareness) – To experience insightful awareness requires a linkage of the past, present, and future aspects of time. Research has discovered that the middle prefrontal cortex has input and output fibers to many areas of autobiographical memory stores and limbic firing that provides emotional access to events from the past, an awareness of the present and potential images of the future (Beer et al, 2006; Beittman & Nair, 2005; Frith & Frith, 1999; & Wood et al, 2005).


7. Fear Modulation – The release of GABA (gamma amino butyric acid), an inhibitory neurotransmitter has been found to modulate fear. The lower limbic (primitive) areas of the brain mediate fear or the flight or fight response. However, it is the middle prefrontal fibers that have the capacity to modulate fear and the response to fearful events (Harris, et al, 2005; Phelps et al, 2004; Morgan et al, 2003; and Sotres-Bayon et al, 2006).

8. Intuition – That “Gut Feeling” actually comes from our body’s viscera, i.e., the heart, lungs, and intestines. The human capacity for deep ways of knowing becomes a function of the body registering input to the middle prefrontal regions of the brain to influence reasoning and reactions to occurring events (Critchlet et al, 2001; Damasio, 1994 & 1999; and Lieberman, 2000).


9. Morality – It has been found that the middle prefrontal regions of the brain when damaged can lead to mental impairment and moral thinking can turn to various forms of amorality (Anderson et al, 1999; Bechara et al, 2000; Green et al; 2004; Green et al, 2004; King et al, 2006; & Moll et al; 2002).

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Effect of the LENS on EEG Suppression

Standard EEG Receptor SitesFear ModulationInsight (Self Awareness)Emotional BalanceResponse FlexibilityAttuned CommunicationBodily RegulationEmpathyMoralityIntuition

Positive Effects of Balanced Brainwaves

Beta Waves (15 - 30 Hz)

When beta waves are their best, the person will experience a stronglyengaged mindset. The person will be able to focus, concentrate andremember. Stimulating beta develops ability to think fast, generate newideas, and be productive. This type of fast mental processing definitelyhelps with taking tests, doing math, giving presentations or completingprojects. Beta brainwaves allow a person to become more social andoutgoing, to think on their feet, and the ability to take initiative.

Beta activity speeds up reaction time, ability to focus and mental alertness.


Alpha Waves (9 - 14 Hz)

When alpha waves are at their best the person will feel calm and relaxed,but aware of what is happening. Alpha represents a state of non-arousal.Stimulating alpha helps to reduce stress, anxiety, and feelings of paranoia.Alpha brainwaves induce relaxation and calmness, release muscle tension,and lower blood pressure. Alpha brainwaves help curb addictions.


Theta Waves (4 - 8 Hz)

When Theta waves are at their best the person will experience flashesof insight, eureka or “light-bulb” experiences. Theta brainwaves helpto disengage from the task at hand, and begin to think deeply, reflect,imagine, fantasize, or daydream. Stimulating theta brainwaves allowsfor healing, restoration, and rejuvenation. In the Theta state, the brainproduces more beneficial neuro-chemicals such as acetylcholine, andcatecholamines which enable learning and memorization. Acetylcholine(also found in Daxitrol) is vital for long term memory.


Delta Waves (1 - 3 Hz)

When delta waves are at their best the person will experience deep andrestful sleep. Stimulating delta brainwaves will induce sleep, and alsotrigger feelings of empathy, intuition, and awareness. Delta brainwavescan provide an ability to read other’s emotions and understand theirfeelings at a subconscious level. On a subconscious level a person canhear a voice inside their head telling them these things, or maybe seea mental picture, or have a hunch. Delta brainwaves can provide anadvanced state of empathy, understanding, and compassion for others.

Mid-Prefrontal Functions as Shown by LENS

Tables in the next slide show initial and follow-up LENS Suppression Maps for an N of 185 Courage to Change clients. Initial and follow-up LENS suppression mappings we given to each. It is essential to point out that some of the mid-prefrontal sides follow up frequencies were greater than the initial mapping frequencies.

Many of the clients actually required additional LENS training sessions and it is noted that many times the sequence of sites actually changes during trainings. It should also be noted that the figures below are merely frequency reports of the mid-prefrontal EEG sites.

Frequency Data

Total Amp FP1 FZ CZ F8 FPZ F4 F7 F3 FP2Initial 85 79 75 105 44 77 79 77 60Follow 57 43 57 39 48 45 40 54 30

Total Amp C3 C4 T3 T4 T5 T6Initial 53 60 51 45 68 41Follow 57 61 42 43 59 52

Frequency Data

Alpha FP1 FZ CZ F8 FPZ F4 F7 F3 FP2Initial 65 105 50 79 79 43 45 41 68Follow 39 40 65 40 40 46 26 47 36

Alpha C3 C4 T3 T4 T5 T6Initial 54 66 65 105 50 66Follow 44 47 39 40 65 45

Frequency Data

Delta FP1 FZ CZ F8 FPZ F4 F7 F3 FP2Initial 80 63 71 62 41 27 50 46 104Follow 42 50 61 43 36 47 21 56 48

Delta C3 C4 T3 T4 T5 T6Initial 47 87 72 55 67 64Follow 49 59 62 28 49 456

Frequency Data

Theta FP1 FZ CZ F8 FPZ F4 F7 F3 FP2Initial 78 85 61 87 64 55 57 73 63Follow 40 61 55 46 49 46 35 57 40

Theta C3 C4 T3 T4 T5 T6Initial 59 82 51 63 73 51Follow 55 48 49 44 42 52

Integrated ModelA New Standard of Care for

Sustainable Addiction RecoveryNeurological Rebalancing

The Care and Feeding of the Brain for Optimum Health

Clinical assessments determine individual neurotransmitter and neuro-bio-feedback recovery regime. You can’t manage what you can’t measure. A dual neurotherapy regime designed to bring the addict’s brain to optimal functioning is utilized in this model:

1. Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS) 2. Neurotransmitter Rebalancing with neuroceuticals

(amino acid/vitamin/mineral supplements)3. Bio mat

Cognitive and Motivational Therapies – Direct and Client-Centered Style to Create Behavior Change

*Explore and Resolve Ambivalence

Five Principles of Motivational Therapy

1) Express Empathy 2) Develop Discrepancy 3) Avoid Argumentation 4) Roll with Resistance 5) Support Self-Efficacy

Educational and psychological work at Courage to Change Ranch not only creates change in itself, but also is essential to the physiological repair of compromised neurons.

Cognitive Behavioral Motivational Therapy (CBT)

CBT focuses on identifying counter-productive thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, and cognitions which produce negative and debilitating emotions.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR developed as a psychotherapy treatment originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. Rapid eye movements are used in a specialized psychotherapy protocol successful in relieving chronic distress in trauma victims.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

EFT is a powerful new method based on the discovery that emotional trauma contributes greatly to disease. Scientific studies have shown that EFT is able to rapidly reduce the emotional impact of memories and incidents that trigger emotional distress. Once the distress is reduced or removed, the body can often rebalance itself, and accelerate healing.

Courage to Change also utilizes Amethyst Crystal Biomat Therapy Sessions for a true renewal retreat experience. BioMat technology is a combination of three powerful health stimulators: infrared heat, negative ions and the conductive properties of amethyst channels. The BioMat delivers soothing, deep-penetrating heat while stimulating the regeneration of damaged cells in the body.

Bio Mat

Educational Therapies Developing New Neural Pathways for Healthy Behaviors

Educational and psychological work at Courage to Change not only creates change in itself, but also is essential to the physiological repair of compromised neurons.

The Peniston Papers report that traditional addiction rehabilitation programs that merely work the 12 steps have a success rate of about 20%, but neurofeedback has actually shown an 80 to 90% success rate (Pentiston, et al, 1989). This research is a strong indicator that “You have to be able to count to 12 in order to do the 12 Steps.”

Each client has the opportunity to participate in the traditional 12-Step programs in addition to ‘Talking Circles’ and Sweat Lodges.

Spiritual/Experiential Therapy –Developing Emotional and Spiritual Maturity

It seems that addiction is the only disease that victims are incarcerated for. It is estimated that 80-90% of offenders in the Department of Corrections are addicts.

An alpha-theta study by Steve Fahrion involving 500 hard-core addicts in the Kansas prison system confirmed the premise that alpha-theta brainwaves of addicts are significantly low (Collins, 2011).

Changing Criminal Behavior/Addressing Self-Destructive Behavior – Developing Healthy Social Skills

Some clients had a limited education and few job skills. Several were able to complete their GED, some applied for college or a trade school.

The American Disabilities Act was a convincing factor that allowed a few fortunate to return to a ‘real’ job.

The C2C program has successfully served professionals, i.e., dentists, attorneys and nurses, with an “impaired license” who were eventually able to resume their careers.

Career Enhancement – Developing Healthy Work Skills & Fiscal Responsibility

Family Relationship Repair Healing the Wounds of Addiction

Researcher Bill Scott (2011) offers hope to families. “For those who’ve tried and failed, here is a result that says, ‘try again, there are new possibilities.’ For families and communities, it’s another opportunity to free ourselves from the specter of drugs.”

Conjoint Family Therapy goes beyond just the addict her/himself to help family members find health and happiness in the Recovery process.

Outpatient Services

C2C develops custom tailored programs to individual needs. Many of C2C’s inpatient clients transfer to the Intensive Outpatient Program.

Sustainable recovery is now possible with the state-of-the-science Integrated Recovery Regime.

C2C’s successful report for 100 clients, and the mid-pre-frontal cortex report is only the beginning. We are now in a position to replicate the Integrated Model nationwide.

Lifetime Continuing Care – Maintaining a Sustainable Recovery

Founded in 2004, the Courage to Change is licensed with the Colorado Division of Behavioral Health. The C2C program is founded on integrating holistic modalities for sustainable addiction recovery. The program works with the understanding that the body feeds the brain, and the brain guides the body, and that body and brain are not “parts,” but rather the foundation for the whole body.

C2C treats the root cause of addiction – not the symptoms of addiction.

The intensive residential program ranges from 30 to 365 days and provides a neuro-biological regime, strategically integrated with lifestyle-changing experiences, life planning skills, & the application of spiritual balance.

The C2C program draws from time-tested bio-psychosocial therapies, as well as prevailing neuroscience, as a “systems” approach to recovery.

The whole person is treated; body, brain, and spirit – to start to heal the many aspects of a person’s life that has been damaged not only by alcoholism and/or addiction, but the underlying causes - post traumatic stress, trauma and abuse and an attempt to find the feeling of well-being.

Pre & Post Neuroceutical Regime Client Photos

54 Year Old Alcoholic on Entry 54 Year Old at Transition - in 3rd year of recovery.

Meth Client at Entry Meth Client at Transition in 6th year of recovery with a masters degree.

Pre & Post Neuroceutical Regimevs. Meth

Client at Entry Client at Transition 3rd year in recovery.

Pre & Post Neuroceutical Regime vs. Opiates & Prescription Meds.

Client at Entry Client at Transition

Pre & Post Neuroceutical Regime vs. Pharmaceuticals

Client at 6 Months Transition & Reunited with Son – back with Husband and is Employed

The Chicken Story Once upon a time, there was a king who had lost a knight from his round table and he was interviewing for a replacement. Three men from his kingdom applied for the position. The king gave each man a chicken and told them:“Go where no one can see and kill the chicken.”

Several hours later the first manreturned and told the king:“I went deep into the forest,where no one could see and

I killed the chicken.”

The Chicken Story An hour later the second man

returned and told the king:“I went in the back of a cave,where no one could see and

I killed the chicken.”

The third man returned still carryingthe chicken and told the king:

“I could not kill the chickenbecause everywhere I went

the chicken could see.”

Documents

Breaking the Bars Neural Recovery vs. Incarceration Changing Public Views, the Judicial System, and the Medical Profession on the Social/Moral Issues Surrounding