ARCA’s Addiction Rehab Centre
ARCA’s Addiction Rehab Centres are fully licensed and registered with the Department of Social Development and Department of Health. The licence covers in-patient Detoxification and in-patient care. Medical Aid covers ARCA drug…
Carte Blanche – Drug Drug Episode
ARCA Durban were showcased on Carte Blanche, interest in ARCA's Rehabilitation Programme has catapulted. Trish Beaver from Weekend Witness discovers and explains the benefits. Drug Drug Episode Kicking a heroin…
How does one get addicted to drugs?
It is the wrong choices we make in our lives that lead us to becoming drug addicts. Teenagers are faced with peer pressure every day, be it at school or while socialising. From the age of 11 to 17, teenagers tend..
Creation of a false belief system:
ʻFalse beliefʼ is when drug users start to believe that once on the drug they are invincible and can accomplish anything. This leads them to becoming reliant on the drug for that false sense of confidence. At first, the drug was used for fun and then for confidence, and from then on drug users would find a reason to use it for every emotional state experienced, be it a good or bad emotion. At this stage, drug users have developed the belief that when they experience a good emotion and they want to heighten that emotion, they need to use the drug to take them there, and if it is a bad or sad emotion the drug will numb the pain that they are experiencing.
The Intervention
REHAB ADDICTION INTERVENTION is a procedure by which an addict is guided into a treatment facility or counselling session in an objective, caring and non-judgmental way; the interventionist being diplomatic yet assertive.
Alcoholics? Quitting is Only the Beginning
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Peddling Poison – Etv
Watch 'Peddling Poison' on Etv - Sunday 19th January 2014 at 18.05hrs - Story of a little girl called Viola. Her parents are whoonga addicts living on Durban streets-http://goo.gl/WZ92h2