A Functional Approach to Healing

 Contrary to popular belief, people don’t choose their addiction it chooses them. Instead of a “drug of choice”, it’s more like “the drug that chose you”.  Most substance abuse problems result from biochemical imbalances in the brain that impair normal function and alter normal behavioral and emotional responses. Recovery begins when we are able to re-establish normal brain chemistry, or the case of many patients when we establish normal brain chemistry for the first time in their lives!

 A psychotropic substance is any chemical that interacts directly with the biochemistry of the brain to alter mood, thought, or behavior. Any psychotropic substance is potentially addictive.

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