Changing Public Views, the Judicial System, and the Medical Profession on the Social/Moral Issues
Surrounding Addictive Behavior
Copyright © 2013 Courage to Change Addiction Recovery Ranch

Would you give up drinking for this?

The Eighteenth Amendment to the
Constitution prohibited the production, sale, and transport of "intoxicating liquors,“ but it did not define "intoxicating liquors" or provide penalties.
The production, importation, and distribution of alcoholic beverages was taken over by criminal gangs, which fought each other for market control in violent confrontations, including murder.
Source: How Booze Built America :
The Discovery Channel

The Volstead Act actually created three legs to the now underground criminal alcohol industry:
Importation from Europe:
Underground Empire
Manufacturers: Moonshiners
Distributors: Bootleggers
Source: How Booze Built America :
The Discovery Channel

The Saint Valentine’s Massacre - the
1929 murder of seven mob associates as part of a Prohibition-era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in
Chicago: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran. Former members of the Egan's Rats gang were also suspected of having played a significant role in the incident, assisting
Capone.
Source: How Booze Built America :
The Discovery Channel

Moonshine, white lightning, mountain
dew, hooch, and Tennessee white
whiskey are terms used to describe illicitly produced high-proof distilled spirits. Stills using old automotive radiators as condensers were particularly dangerous; in some cases, the liquor contained glycol, products from antifreeze causing people to go blind and deaf.
Source: How Booze Built America :
The Discovery Channel

Bootleggers distributed moonshine.
The mob had the financial resources to fund the development of faster cars to get away from the police – an industry that led to the creation of
NASCAR.
Source: How Booze Built America :
The Discovery Channel

Joseph P. Kennedy traded in illegal booze. Some believe the family business went underground during the dry years. Harvard classmates say he supplied the illicit booze for alumni events.
In 1973 mob boss Frank Costello said he and
Kennedy had been bootlegging partners. It is thought that bootlegging is one area where
Kennedy built his fortune and in doing so was able to fund his son, John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign.
Source: How Booze Built America :
The Discovery Channel

When JFK was president he wanted to put a man on the moon… and the financing to make Buzz Aldron the first man to walk on the moon came from alcohol money and the Volstead Act.
Source: How Booze Built America :
The Discovery Channel

More than half a century ago,
Alcoholics Anonymous introduced the idea that alcoholism is a disease as opposed to a moral failing.
The failure of the 12 years of prohibition followed by decades of neuroscience research has shown that moral teachings do not stop most alcoholics from drinking, and incarceration does not work either.
Source: How Booze Built America :
The Discovery Channel

When science-based evidence and the Big Book are combined they become a very powerful tool for addiction recovery.
However, one must be able to count to 12 to do the 12-steps.

Science has now become an ever-expanding universe; involving physiology, genetics, neuroscience, neuro-imaging, psychiatry, education and spiritualism.
Thus having a profound impact on addiction treatment.

The Muslim Avicenna, the “father of pharmacology” authored The Book of
Healing and The Canon of Medicine, categorizing human ailments and prescribed cures. It was the medical textbook for European universities into the 17th century.
Circa 980 - 1037 AD

At the clinical level, pharmacology manifests a tension between therapy vs. toxicity, and benefit vs. side effect.
At the research level, the conflicts teeter between
Hippocratic beneficence vs. worldly profit.

The earliest recorded mention of opioid use was around 4000 BC, in Asia and, later, Europe and America. Notably their use is high in the United States.

Opiates such as morphine have long been known to effectively reduce pain. In 1974, Candace Pert and Saul
Snyder discover that the brain has its own receptors for opiates. This provides evidence that the brain must produce something on its own that is akin to drugs like morphine.
Pert's and Snyder’s discovery enables other researchers to find opiate-like molecules produced by the brain – endorphins; such as those produced during exercise. They are the body’s own natural mood enhancers and/or painkillers.
Source: The New Medicine

Suboxone (Buprenorphine) was first marketed in the 1980s as an analgesic.
Suboxone is the first opioid medication approved under the Drug Addiction
Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA) for the treatment of opioid dependence in an office-based setting.

Today, Suboxone replaces methadone, intended for only 3-5 days for withdrawal from Heroin but addicts stay on it for weeks, months, even years.

By 1956, the New York Times was heralding “Alcoholic
Peril Found in Drugs: Some Tranquilizing Therapy May
Be Habit Forming….”
Benzodiazepines (e.g. Valium, Librium, Xanax, etc.) made their debut in 1960, and in subsequent decade’s were used in treating seizures, anxiety and alcoholism.
We now know that detoxing from benzos causes lifethreatening seizures.
By 1963, scientists from the Addiction Research Center of the National
Institutes of Health began warning that benzodiazepines were “drugs of addiction,” just like barbiturates.

As an understanding of brain chemistry progressed, so did the chemical response.
As one class of pills followed another, each was declared “safe” and “non-habit-forming,” only to be found as dangerous & addictive.

1676 Laudanum
(tincture of opium)
1870’s Lithium
(lithium)
1912 Luminol
( phenobarbitol)
1954 Ritalin et al.
( methylphenidate)
1955 Miltown et al
Tranquilizer
(meprobamate)
1958 Elavil et al.
Tricyclic Antidepressant
(amitriptyline)
1991 Zoloft et al.
SSRI
(sertraline)
1959 Marplan et al.
MAOI Inhibitor
(isocarboxazid)
1992 Paxil et al.
SSRI
(paroxetine)
1963 Valium et al.
Tranquilizer
(benzodiazepine)
2002 Lexapro et al.
SSRI
(escitalopram)
1987 Prozac et al.
SSRI
(fluoxetine)

While ‘speed’ was used and abused on the street during the 1960s and
1970s, it did not raise the public alarm that LSD did.
Like many legal synthetics, it was considered “safe” and “non-addictive.”
Indeed, Desoxyn is still legally prescribed and is still unsafe and addictive.

In 1951, Congress introduced mandatory minimum sentencing to the nation. Judicial discretion was pushed aside as judges were forced to sentence anyone in possession of more than 4 oz. of a hard drug to a minimum of 15 years.
In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared the ‘War on Drugs’. During the Reagan administration the number of people behind bars for non-violent drug offenses increased from 50,000 to 500,000.
The War on Drugs has never been about Drugs.
The ‘War on Drugs’ was also known as the new Jim Crow act because of the mass incarceration of African-Americans.

The 40 year history of the War on Drugs has resulted in 40 million arrests at a cost of over one trillion dollars.
The film: The House I Live In examines how political and economic corruption have failed the 40 year war.
In 1992 Bill Clinton advocated for treatment instead of incarceration as a campaign issue
– but after being elected he rejected the concept.

August 2013

Access to Recovery (ATR) was announced by
President George W. Bush in the 2003 State of the
Union address as a 3-year, $600-million program intended to expand the array of addiction and recovery services available to individuals with alcohol and other drug problems.
The initiative, as originally described by President
Bush, was intended to provide 100,000 people annually with access to a comprehensive continuum of treatment and recovery support service.
2001 - 2009

“Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s; developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries ten times more powerful.
Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.”
-- President Barack Obama
In April 2013 President Barack Obama asked Congress to spend $100 million in
2014 to start a new project to map the human brain in hopes of eventually finding cures for diseases like Alzheimer's
.

For latter half of the 20 th century, Americans pursued their illusory happiness in the
“legal” psychotherapeutic drugs developed and marketed by Big Pharma.
And their lessons in the pursuit of happiness were not lost on the emerging generations. Young people discovered their parents’ medicine cabinets.
The pills are out of the box and onto the street, and down in the family room, and traded in locker rooms at middle school. Prescription drugs, which once were the source of power to the psychiatric profession, are now out of the sorcerer’s control.

The ties that bind: gun violence and psychotropic drugs like the recent
Batman theater and Newtown school shooters.
You don’t need a PhD in scientific logic to realize the hard proof lies in the percentage of shooters prescribed SSRI’s.

America has an epidemic problem with ‘legal’ drugs being used illegally. Nearly 150 million prescriptions for the legal opiates hydrocodone and oxycodone are written annually. Inevitably, these reach ‘The Street’, where they sell for upwards of $100 per pill.
Additionally, enough prescriptions for benzodiazapines are written to cover a third of the American population. These, too, are piped to ‘the street’ or shared illicitly.

In 2002, the National
Survey on Drug Use and
Health reported that 29.6
million Americans had used pain relievers nonmedically; by 2005, that number had risen to 32.7
million.
Americans like to think that the road to social sanity is paved with good intentions, but it may be paved with the cobblestones of hard and irrefutable science.

Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of
Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America
Whitaker sounds the alarm. The arrogance of inventing diseases, while guessing at the biological origin, is blindly dangerous. The protocol of prescribing one drug after another in an attempt to block, rather than work with nature, may give short term relief but provides few, if any, long term answers.
Whitaker’s investigations show that “Do no harm" has taken a back seat to agendas which, at best, ignore it's intent, at worst are opposed to it.

Nora D. Volkow, M.D., became Director of the
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in 2003. NIDA supports most of the world's research on drug abuse and addiction.
Dr. Volkow's work has been instrumental in demonstrating that addiction is a brain disease. She pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate the toxic effects of drugs and their addictive properties.
Dr. Nora D. Volkow
NIDA Director

Recent scientific advances have revolutionized our understanding of addiction, which is now recognized as a chronic relapsing brain disease expressed in the form of compulsive behaviors.
This understanding has improved our ability to prevent and treat addiction.
Healthy Brain Alcohol Damaged Brain Drug Damaged Brain
Courtesy of Dr. Amens

The brains of addicts are abnormal, both in structure and in function. Thus repairing the function is crucial to recovery.
Volkow stated:
“The brains of addicted people have been modified by the drug in such a way that absence of the drug makes a signal to their brain that is equivalent to the signal of when you are starving, as if the individual was in a state of deprivation, when taking
the drug is indispensable for survival. It’s as powerful as that.”
Dr. D. Corydon Hammond of the University of Utah School of Medicine suggests that alcoholics and their children find it difficult to relax and tend to self-medicate with alcohol and other drugs in an effort to treat their own brain pathology. Research has found that addicts have lower levels of alpha and theta brain waves and an excess of fast beta activity.

By this time – the damage done to the brain from various factors; genetics, in-utero-toxicity, nutrition, environment, trauma, abuse, and early use of alcohol and drugs, takes its toll on brain functioning. Fear is another factor that has a profound effect on brain development.
In the case of brain dysfunction, we need to blame ourselves, our psychology or our attitude. In the case of physical health problems, we tend to blame Lady Luck or the hammer that smashed our toe. But both types of dysfunctions have the same root- brain dysfunction.

The remedy of brain dysfunction often lies, literally in our own hands – and in what those hands are transporting toward the mouth. Simple attention to food rather than professional help is sometimes all it takes to improve our lives, outlook, and physically health.
There are lessons to be learned from addiction science – particularly in America, where the most overfed population in the history of the world is also one of the most nutritionally compromised.

The nervous system influences how we think, feel, and act, and acts as a conduit for how the entire of the body functions. The function of the CNS, including a balance of neurotransmitters, plays an essential and central role in the health of all body systems.
Innovative science-based healing brings attention to the brain as the common denominator of all pathological and mental illness; i.e., the neurotransmitter/ communication system that signals every other cell in the body, and the function of brain waves.

NeuroScience, Inc. advocates an assess-address approach to nervous system function.
NeuroScience, Inc. works with healthcare providers to develop Targeted Amino Acid Therapy
(TAATTM) programs designed to address the spectrum of neurotransmitter & hormone imbalances.

LENS is a new form of brainwave biofeedback and neurofeedback that is optimizing human function in the areas of mood, cognition, and energy levels.
The advent of the emerging field of neuroscience has put
LENS in the spotlight as a revolutionary technique for restoring optimal brain function.
Len Ochs, Ph.D. pioneers the Low Energy Neurofeedback
System (LENS), which utilizes gentle, non-invasive EEG biofeedback and neurofeedback. The system has a history of showing promising clinical and experimental results throughout its 15 years of evolution.

Neurotherapy as an Adjunct Therapy for
Addiction Recovery
Table 1
Demographic Profile of Clients (N of 100)
78 Caucasian
7 Hispanic
1 Asian
5 Native American
9 African American
Source: Neurotherapy as an Adjunct Therapy for Addiction Recovery:
The Integrated Solution, Judith Ann Miller, PH.D., CAC III , Julie Ann
Steenhoek , Lawrence Ted Ulibarri, CAC II , Sally Maxey-Schabow,
MSW, Mary Kaye Kraback, AA, CAC III

Neurotherapy as an Adjunct Therapy for
Addiction Recovery
Table 2
Prevalence of Drug of Addiction
86
8
6
Alcohol
Cocaine
Marijuana
73 Tobacco
70 Poly-substance
11
7
31
5
Heroin
Methamphetamines
Prescription Medications
Synthetic Opiates
Source: Neurotherapy as an Adjunct Therapy for Addiction Recovery:
The Integrated Solution, Judith Ann Miller, PH.D., CAC III , Julie Ann
Steenhoek , Lawrence Ted Ulibarri, CAC II , Sally Maxey-Schabow,
MSW, Mary Kaye Kraback, AA, CAC III

Neurotherapy as an Adjunct Therapy for
Addiction Recovery
Table 3
Prevalence of Symptoms Suffered by Clients
After 30 Days 100 % of 100 clients had no more symptoms
25
86
86
2
Bipolar Disorder
Anxiety
Depression
Migraines
1 Erectile Dysfunction
100
2
5
76
Sleep Problems
ADHD
PTSD
Anger
Source: Neurotherapy as an Adjunct Therapy for Addiction Recovery:
The Integrated Solution, Judith Ann Miller, PH.D., CAC III , Julie Ann
Steenhoek , Lawrence Ted Ulibarri, CAC II , Sally Maxey-Schabow,
MSW ( , Mary Kaye Kraback, AA, CAC III

Nine Middle Pre-Frontal Functions of the Brain
Dr. Daniel J. Siegel in his book The Mindful Brain
(2007) identifies nine functions of the middle prefrontal cortex, each of which is discussed below:
1. Bodily Regulation – The first of the nine middle prefrontal functions is brain regulation which serves as the brakes and acceleration for coordination and balance. When the neurological system is balanced all other bodily systems are automatically balanced. Substance abuse and subsequent addiction causes all bodily systems to become dysregulated. (Critchley, et al,
2003; Lane, et al, 2001; Nauta, 1971; Onguii &
Price, 2000; Porrin & Goldman-Rakic, 1982).

Nine Middle Pre-Frontal Functions of the Brain
2. Attuned Communication – There seems to be a co communication breakdown within an addicted brain. When the neurological system is balanced communication becomes attuned resulting in effective coordination of input between two minds (Bar-On, et al, 2003; Beer, et al,
2003; Mah, et al, 2005; Nitchke, et al, 2005; Shore, 2003; Trevarthen,
2001)..
3. Emotional Balance – An optimally operating neurological system allows the executive functions of the brain to provide the capacity for humans, monkeys, and mice to maintain emotional balance. Research shows that the brain’s middle prefrontal regions actually monitor and inhibit limbic firing with the optimal level of bidirectional flow from the subcortical limbic to the middle prefrontal regions (Blumberg, et al, 2003); Busch &
Posner, 2000; Davidson et al, 2000; Happaney et al, 2004; Phan et al,
2002; & Tucker et al, 2995).

Nine Middle Pre-Frontal Functions of the Brain
4. Response Flexibility – Do mice have the capacity to respond at the emotional level? Personal observations indicate that mice have a reactive response. One day many years ago I found a nest of baby mice on my red fuzzy bedspread. My cowboy husband gathered them up and flushed them down the toilet. A bit later, my 10-year-old son came to me crying.
He said: “That momma mouse is frantically looking for her babies.”
To respond in an active or proactive manner is a neurological choice that allows responsive flexibility. Research has shown that to make the right choice becomes a process of assessing ongoing stimuli, the delay of reaction, selection from a variety of possible options, and the selection of the responsive action. Thus the middle prefrontal brain is responsible to work in conjunction with the side areas to carry out the responsive function (Carter & Cohen, 1999; Chambers et al, 2006; Fellows, 2004;
Gehring & Fencsik, 2004; Gottfried et al, 2003; Schoenbaum, 2001; &
Tucker & Swick, 1999).

Nine Middle Pre-Frontal Functions of the Brain
5. Empathy – The data shows that for a human to express empathy the brain’s middle prefrontal regions can actually assess attributes on another human to determine what might be going inside that person (Carr et al,
2003; Decety & Jackson, 2004; Heisel & Beatty, 2006); Shamay-Tsoory et all, 2005; & deWaal & Preston, 2002).
6. Insight (Self-Knowing Awareness) – To experience insightful awareness requires a linkage of the past, present, and future aspects of time.
Research has discovered that the middle prefrontal cortex has input and output fibers to many areas of autobiographical memory stores and limbic firing that provides emotional access to events from the past, an awareness of the present and potential images of the future (Beer et al,
2006; Beittman & Nair, 2005; Frith & Frith, 1999; & Wood et al, 2005).

Nine Middle Pre-Frontal Functions of the Brain
7. Fear Modulation – The release of GABA (gamma amino butyric acid), an inhibitory neurotransmitter has been found to modulate fear. The lower limbic (primitive) areas of the brain mediate fear or the flight or fight response. However, it is the middle prefrontal fibers that have the capacity to modulate fear and the response to fearful events (Harris, et al,
2005; Phelps et al, 2004; Morgan et al, 2003; and Sotres-Bayon et al,
2006).
8. Intuition – That “Gut Feeling” actually comes from our body’s viscera, i.e., the heart, lungs, and intestines. The human capacity for deep ways of knowing becomes a function of the body registering input to the middle prefrontal regions of the brain to influence reasoning and reactions to occurring events (Critchlet et al, 2001; Damasio, 1994 & 1999; and
Lieberman, 2000).

Nine Middle Pre-Frontal Functions of the Brain
9. Morality – It has been found that the middle prefrontal regions of the brain when damaged can lead to mental impairment and moral thinking can turn to various forms of amorality (Anderson et al, 1999; Bechara et al, 2000; Green et al; 2004; Green et al, 2004; King et al, 2006; & Moll et al; 2002).
PLEASE ADD Siegels Photo!!

Fear Modulation
Insight (Self Awareness)
Emotional Balance
Response Flexibility
Attuned Communication
Bodily Regulation
Empathy
Morality
Intuition

Positive Effects of Balanced Brainwaves
When beta waves are their best, the person will experience a strongly engaged mindset. The person will be able to focus, concentrate and remember. Stimulating beta develops ability to think fast, generate new ideas, and be productive. This type of fast mental processing definitely helps with taking tests, doing math, giving presentations or completing projects. Beta brainwaves allow a person to become more social and outgoing, to think on their feet, and the ability to take initiative.
Beta activity speeds up reaction time, ability to focus and mental alertness.

Positive Effects of Balanced Brainwaves
When alpha waves are at their best the person will feel calm and relaxed, but aware of what is happening. Alpha represents a state of non-arousal.
Stimulating alpha helps to reduce stress, anxiety, and feelings of paranoia.
Alpha brainwaves induce relaxation and calmness, release muscle tension, and lower blood pressure. Alpha brainwaves help curb addictions.

Positive Effects of Balanced Brainwaves
When Theta waves are at their best the person will experience flashes of insight, eureka or “light-bulb” experiences. Theta brainwaves help to disengage from the task at hand, and begin to think deeply, reflect, imagine, fantasize, or daydream. Stimulating theta brainwaves allows for healing, restoration, and rejuvenation. In the Theta state, the brain produces more beneficial neuro-chemicals such as acetylcholine, and catecholamines which enable learning and memorization. Acetylcholine
(also found in Daxitrol) is vital for long term memory.

Positive Effects of Balanced Brainwaves
When delta waves are at their best the person will experience deep and restful sleep. Stimulating delta brainwaves will induce sleep, and also trigger feelings of empathy, intuition, and awareness. Delta brainwaves can provide an ability to read other’s emotions and understand their feelings at a subconscious level. On a subconscious level a person can hear a voice inside their head telling them these things, or maybe see a mental picture, or have a hunch. Delta brainwaves can provide an advanced state of empathy, understanding, and compassion for others.

Tables in the next slide show initial and follow-up LENS Suppression Maps for an N of 185 Courage to Change clients. Initial and follow-up LENS suppression mappings we given to each. It is essential to point out that some of the midprefrontal sides follow up frequencies were greater than the initial mapping frequencies.
Many of the clients actually required additional LENS training sessions and it is noted that many times the sequence of sites actually changes during trainings. It should also be noted that the figures below are merely frequency reports of the mid-prefrontal EEG sites.

Total
Amp FP1 FZ
Initial 85
Follow 57
79
43
CZ F8
75 105
FPZ F4
44
57 39 48
77
45
F7
79
40
F3
77
54
FP2
60
30
Total
Amp C3
Initial
Follow
53
57
C4
60
61
T3
51
42
T4
45
43
T5
68
59
T6
41
52

Alpha FP1
FZ
Initial 65 105
CZ
Follow 39 40
50
65
F8
79
FPZ F4
79
40 40
43
46
F7
45
26
F3
41
47
FP2
68
36
Alpha C3
Initial
Follow
54
44
C4
66
47
T3 T4
65 105
39 40
T5
50
65
T6
66
45

Delta FP1
FZ
Initial 80
Follow 42
63
50
CZ
71
61
F8
62
FPZ F4
41
43 36
27
47
F7
50
21
F3 FP2
46 104
56 48
Delta C3
Initial
Follow
47
49
C4
87
59
T3
72
62
T4
55
28
T5 T6
67 64
49 456

Theta FP1
FZ
Initial 78
Follow 40
85
61
CZ
61
55
F8
87
FPZ F4
64
46 49
55
46
F7
57
35
F3
73
57
FP2
63
40
Theta C3
Initial
Follow
59
55
C4
82
48
T3
51
49
T4
63
44
T5
73
42
T6
51
52

Neurological Rebalancing
The Care and Feeding of the Brain for Optimum Health
Clinical assessments determine individual neurotransmitter and neuro-biofeedback recovery regime. You can’t manage what you can’t measure. A dual neurotherapy regime designed to bring the addict’s brain to optimal functioning is utilized in this model:
1. Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS)
2. Neurotransmitter Rebalancing with neuroceuticals
(amino acid/vitamin/mineral supplements)
3. Bio mat

*Explore and Resolve Ambivalence
Five Principles of Motivational Therapy
1) Express Empathy
2) Develop Discrepancy
3) Avoid Argumentation
4) Roll with Resistance
5) Support Self-Efficacy

Educational and psychological work at Courage to Change Ranch not only creates change in itself, but also is essential to the physiological repair of compromised neurons.
Cognitive Behavioral Motivational Therapy (CBT)
CBT focuses on identifying counter-productive thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, and cognitions which produce negative and debilitating emotions.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR developed as a psychotherapy treatment originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. Rapid eye movements are used in a specialized psychotherapy protocol successful in relieving chronic distress in trauma victims.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
EFT is a powerful new method based on the discovery that emotional trauma contributes greatly to disease. Scientific studies have shown that EFT is able to rapidly reduce the emotional impact of memories and incidents that trigger emotional distress. Once the distress is reduced or removed, the body can often rebalance itself, and accelerate healing.

Bio Mat
Courage to Change also utilizes Amethyst Crystal Biomat
Therapy Sessions for a true renewal retreat experience.
BioMat technology is a combination of three powerful health stimulators: infrared heat, negative ions and the conductive properties of amethyst channels. The BioMat delivers soothing, deep-penetrating heat while stimulating the regeneration of damaged cells in the body.

Educational and psychological work at Courage to
Change not only creates change in itself, but also is essential to the physiological repair of compromised neurons.
The Peniston Papers report that traditional addiction rehabilitation programs that merely work the 12 steps have a success rate of about 20%, but neurofeedback has actually shown an 80 to 90% success rate (Pentiston, et al,
1989). This research is a strong indicator that “You have to be able to count to
12 in order to do the 12 Steps.”

Each client has the opportunity to participate in the traditional 12-Step programs in addition to ‘Talking
Circles’ and Sweat Lodges.

It seems that addiction is the only disease that victims are incarcerated for. It is estimated that 80-90% of offenders in the
Department of Corrections are addicts.
An alpha-theta study by Steve Fahrion involving 500 hard-core addicts in the Kansas prison system confirmed the premise that alpha-theta brainwaves of addicts are significantly low (Collins, 2011).

Some clients had a limited education and few job skills. Several were able to complete their GED, some applied for college or a trade school.
The American Disabilities Act was a convincing factor that allowed a few fortunate to return to a ‘real’ job.
The C2C program has successfully served professionals, i.e., dentists, attorneys and nurses, with an “impaired license” who were eventually able to resume their careers.

Researcher Bill Scott (2011) offers hope to families.
“For those who’ve tried and failed, here is a result that says, ‘try again, there are new possibilities.’
For families and communities, it’s another opportunity to free ourselves from the specter of drugs.”
Conjoint Family Therapy goes beyond just the addict her/himself to help family members find health and happiness in the Recovery process.

Outpatient Services
C2C develops custom tailored programs to individual needs. Many of C2C’s inpatient clients transfer to the Intensive Outpatient Program.
• LENS Therapy
• Cognitive Therapy
• Motivational Therapy
• EMDR
• Family Counseling
• Neurotransmitter Rebalancing
• Drug-Alcohol Evaluations for
County Courts
• DUI Therapy/Classes/Monitoring

Lifetime Continuing Care –
Maintaining a Sustainable Recovery
Sustainable recovery is now possible with the state-ofthe-science Integrated Recovery Regime.
C2C’s successful report for 100 clients, and the mid-pre-frontal cortex report is only the beginning. We are now in a position to replicate the Integrated
Model nationwide.

Founded in 2004, the Courage to Change is licensed with the Colorado
Division of Behavioral Health. The C2C program is founded on integrating holistic modalities for sustainable addiction recovery. The program works with the understanding that the body feeds the brain, and the brain guides the body, and that body and brain are not “parts,” but rather the foundation for the whole body.
C2C treats the root cause of addiction – not the symptoms of addiction.
The intensive residential program ranges from 30 to 365 days and provides a neuro-biological regime, strategically integrated with lifestyle-changing experiences, life planning skills, & the application of spiritual balance.

The C2C program draws from time-tested bio-psychosocial therapies, as well as prevailing neuroscience, as a “systems” approach to recovery.
The whole person is treated; body, brain, and spirit – to start to heal the many aspects of a person’s life that has been damaged not only by alcoholism and/or addiction, but the underlying causes - post traumatic stress, trauma and abuse and an attempt to find the feeling of well-being.

54 Year Old Alcoholic on Entry 54 Year Old at Transition - in 3 rd of recovery.
year

Meth Client at Entry Meth Client at Transition in 6 th year of recovery with a masters degree.

Client at Entry Client at Transition 3 rd recovery.
year in

Client at Entry Client at Transition

Client at 6 Months Transition & Reunited with Son – back with Husband and is Employed

Once upon a time, there was a king who had lost a knight from his round table and he was interviewing for a replacement. Three men from his kingdom applied for the position. The king gave each man a chicken and told them:
“Go where no one can see and kill the chicken.”
Several hours later the first man returned and told the king:
“I went deep into the forest, where no one could see and
I killed the chicken.”

An hour later the second man returned and told the king:
“I went in the back of a cave, where no one could see and
I killed the chicken.”
The third man returned still carrying the chicken and told the king:
“I could not kill the chicken because everywhere I went the chicken could see.”