– Choosing Intensive Outpatient Treatment –

In 2011, The American Society of Addictive Medicine, redefined Addiction as a chronic brain disease that must be medically AND psychologically treated to be effective. When the brain receives the nutritional support it needs, you automatically make better behavioral choices. This is why Luna Living treats drug and alcohol abuse as a physical disease first.

Addiction, like other chronic illnesses, requires that you manage the symptoms of the disease in ways that don’t erode your quality of life. Typical symptoms of addiction include cravings, sleeplessness, nausea, agitation, tremors, anxiety, hypertension and memory problems. Left untreated these symptoms can be debilitating and progressive.

At Luna Living you learn to manage destructive symptoms that can trigger a relapse. You build your resilience through non-addictive and nutritional chemistry, behavior modification, and lifestyle changes.

While residential treatment (where a person resides on campus for weeks to months) can be effective in the short-term, there is no evidence that residential treatment has any better long-term result on abstinence from drug and alcohol abuse than intensive outpatient programs. From our point-of-view there is no advantage for most people. Our physicians and therapists will recommend residential therapy when called for.

As an outpatient guest you can take advantage of:

• Medical detoxification with IV NAD+ therapy that eases the discomfort associated with drug and alcohol withdrawal
• Highly qualified integrative team of medical and clinical professionals experienced at helping you to enter remission and stay there
• Individual cognitive behavioral therapy sessions – not solely group therapy – during the 2-week Recovery Program
• Multidimensional family therapy
• Genetic testing and nutritional assessment
• Nutritional education and cooking instruction