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23 Jun When is Detox Needed
Detoxification, or detox, is merely the clearing of drugs and toxins out of a person’s system. If you ever go to a health spa, they also do detoxes to get toxins out of your system, though this is a very light form of detox and…
06 Jun What to Expect From an Intervention
In the old days, families of people who were addicted to alcohol or drugs simply had to wait for them to “hit bottom”, which is to say wait until they just got too exhausted and were sick of dealing with their own addiction. How long…
31 May The Party Drug… Until The Party’s Over
There is a global meth addiction problem and just when it seems to quiet down in one place it flares up somewhere else. Many people start using meth as a “party drug”. It “enhances” the fun. People at discos can dance all night and never…
26 May Which Rehab is Better for You – Large or Small?
One of things you must consider when going to a residential treatment center is whether you want to go to a large facility or a smaller one. Here in Thailand there are places with 60 beds or more, and then there’s us, Lanna Rehab. “Small…
20 May Alcoholism Still The Leading Form Of Addiction
Although much of the news over the past few years has been about the surge in addiction to prescription drugs and the huge number of deaths from abusing them, alcohol is still the leading drug for abuse and still far ahead in terms of the…
18 May Is a 12 Step Recovery Program Still Relevant?
First, Lanna Rehab is not a “12-Step Recovery Program” in the traditional sense. Meaning, we offer a 12-step program if in talking to you that’s what you want, or part of what you want. We believe in custom creating a treatment program to the individual…
10 May Heroin Vs. Opioid Addiction
It really isn’t that long ago that the words “heroin addiction” conjured up images of desperate junkies in squalid back alleys scoring “H” from nefarious dealers, a cigarette dangling from their lips as they pulled small packages of powder out of the breast pocket of…
30 Apr Why Get Addiction Treatment in a Luxury Rehab?
There are people who think that a luxury rehab only offers more amenities – 300 count cotton sheets and four-star cuisine, for example. Well, yes, that’s true. But we created Lanna to be a luxury rehab center with far more differences than that, and many…
26 Apr Is Relapse Part of Addiction Treatment?
Over the decades drug addiction treatment has changed in many ways. Once, it was mainly about detoxing and learning how to white knuckle your way through life. Then, we realized there may be other contributing factors, so psychology began to play a role. Then we…
