Virginia, Alcohol Addiction Rehab Alternative

Searching for Alcohol Rehab in VA

Your alcohol rehab center search should be for a program that is not 12-step or AA based. Your alcohol rehab center search should be looking for a program that offers a social, educational, and alcohol free environment. You should be offered a consistent structured environment that is geared towards life long sobriety, true happiness, selflessness, and goal setting.

At the Saint Jude Program you would be offered many real life scenarios. You will live with other people and attend classes with them. You will come face to face with many different personalities, but share the same goals in life. You will be taught lessons that help you live life happily and successfully. You will be afforded the opportunity to practice patience and tolerance. These are two very important life skills needed to blossom in to a mature adult leading a happy sober life.

Did You Know?

The Richmond and Tidewater areas of Virginia both boast a consistent, long-term heroin abuse population. Portsmouth, in particular, has become known as a heroin source for the Tidewater region. Pockets of heroin distribution are present in other areas of the state as well, but the problem is less pronounced. Most of the heroin encountered in Virginia tends to be of higher-than-average purity. In the Norfolk area, heroin is packaged primarily in gelatin capsules, while it is packaged in small, usually colored or marked ziploc baggies in other parts of the state. In recent surveys preformed by The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), 4,765 or 8.3% of Virginia's 57,435 state residents admitted themselves into treatment for heroin. Not including the 14,933 state residents who admitted themselves into treatment for either opiates or more than one drug. Studies also show that 152,000 or 2.53% of Virginia's citizens reported needing but not receiving treatment fort illicit drug and alcohol use in the past year. Surveys indicate that 2.6% of high school seniors polled had tried heroin at least one time in their lives.

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