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Abstract

How to Quit Using Drugs and Prevent Relapse
Conventional treatment for Substance Use Disorders yields poor
long-term outcome. Drug users are typically abstinent during the
treatment program but relapse at an unacceptably high rate within the
first year following treatment. In most cases, the first lapse occurs
when the individual encounters a crisis of stress or temptation with
which (s)he is not prepared to cope. Emotional reactions to the first
lapse (such as demoralization, self-loathing, and diminished efficacy)
often promote complete relapse and loss of control.

Is Chemical Dependence a Disease?

The word disease means different things to different people. A common
inference is that if you have a disease you should be treated for it by
someone who knows what they are doing. If you needed brain surgery, a
professional neurosurgeon would be a better choice than doing it
yourself.

But you are the best person to change your mind. You are the one who
must cope with the crises you encounter. You are the one who will have
to live with the consequences of the choices you make. At a practical
level it is you, not youre your treatment provider, who is responsible
for the course of your life.

Nevertheless, in the United States most providers of treatment for
Substance Use Disorders encourage users to admit powerlessness over
their disease and turn responsibility for behavior change over to an
external agent [Deity, treatment provider, support group]. The one with
the disease is assigned the passive patient role, who has little say
over the goals and methods to achieve them. The disease model in which
the patient is obedient to the treatment protocol works well as long as
the external source of control is around to exert its influence.
However, when the source of control is unavailable, the individual is
left to cope with crises on his or her own.

The Problem of Immediate Gratification (The PIG)

Addicts are suckers for the promise of an immediate payoff, so eagerly
seek immediate gratification of their desire to be free of their
addiction the more rapidly and effortlessly, the better. Developing the
skills and faculties to act as you intend despite the influence of
local conditions is effortful and it takes time to see the payoff for
your efforts.

It is tempting to turn responsibility for good outcome over to a
powerful external entity. This option is especially appealing when you
are desperate or demoralized. However, treatment based on the disease
modelpromoting the acceptance of powerlessness over a diseasedoes a
poor job of preparing people to cope with the crises of stress and
temptation they will certainly encounter as their future unfolds.

Depending upon an external agent to free you from dependence is an
example of the mentality of childhood that maintains the addictive
trap. You become free of dependence when you develop the capability to
act as you intend despite the pull of local stressors and temptations.
The skills required to exercise your willrather than follow the path of
least resistanceemerges during a developmental passage that no one can
take for you nor spare you

For substance users whose cognitive or medical conditions allow them no
options other than to replace dependence on a substance with dependence
on a more benevolent source of control, this is the only viable
approach. However, for those with good cognitive abilities and a
practical, inner-directed mind set, developing the capability to cope
with crises is a better approach than assuming powerlessness, because
skill development is irreversible.

The Path of Greatest Advantage

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You can change the course of your life if you know what you want and
appreciate the principles of cause-and-effect. You are not the first
one to face this challenge. During the passage that lies ahead, you
will encounter many of the same challenges that others have encountered
before you. Over the past three decades, psychologist, William J.
Dubin, Ph.D., has accompanied thousands of individuals through their
passage from dependence to self-determination. The Path of Greatest
Advantage: How to escape addictive traps and act in accord with your
interests and principles is the resource kit that has emerged from
these collaborations.

Learning to resist the influence of local motivations so you can act in
accord with your interests and principles is an ambitious goal. To
achieve it you will have to do more than passively read text. Thought
experiments and media files included in the kit elicit trance-formative
experiences that encourage you to explore alternatives to the mentality
of childhood. Trance formative exercises invite you to observe the
cause-and-effect principles determining your current emotional state
and to practice working with these principles to manipulate
state-dependent phenomena, such as your appraisal of a lapse before and
after it happens. [Working with subjective experience is effortful, but
the exercise is not without its own rewards.]

Collaborative Support to Help You through a Dangerous Passage

That which does not destroy me makes me stronger Nietzsche

One way or another it is essential that you accomplish what you set out
to accomplish. Ahead of you is perhaps the most heroic challenge of
your life. Failure can destroy you; success can give you payoffs beyond
your expectations. If you can develop the emotion-focused coping skills
so that you are able to act as intended during crises of stress and
temptation, you will become stronger because of the struggle than those
who did not have to develop these powers of will.

Over my long career as a scientist-practitioner I have acquired a lot
of knowledge about addictive traps and how to escape them. You have
specific knowledge about your history, vulnerabilities, values, and
goals. Our task is to collaborate in a way that helps you get what you
want out of this one life you have to live. There are many ways for us
to collaborate. The first step is to download The Path of Greatest
Advantage. Go ahead and try it out now; there's NO RISK to you. If you
find that it is not well matched with you, or does not do what you
wanted, simply let us know within 60 days and we will refund you in
full. No questions asked.

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