Confused? Welcome to my world. I haven't even introduced the other types of licensed or certified addiction professionals: nurse practitioners, psychiatric nurses, educational psychologists, certified life coaches, guidance counselors, hypnotherapists, sponsors, all with varying degrees of education and training in addiction diagnosis and treatment. All are well-meaning and all have their own opinions that, in many cases, are freely offered to the same patient. With all the conflicting advice and variations in diagnosis, it is no wonder that people struggling with addiction are in a maze. I ran around in the maze a long time before I was able to put it all together. I've made it a life-long study and I've been able to advise patients and treatment centers alike on how to exit the maze.
The time has come to stop this insanity. Addiction can be stopped and it doesn't need to be a life-long struggle. Ineffective treatment strategies can be replaced with a system that will work. Further, we can eradicate addiction by preventing it in the first place all outlined in the book, Exit the Maze - One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure. It's time to get off the band-wagon of a cookie-cutter approach that does not work, and it's time to raise the bar rather than promoting ineffective treatment, just another hallway in the addiction maze.
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