Celebrate A New Life is an integrated component into the Hope by the Sea facility, of one of the very best treatment facilities in the United States. Celebrate A New Life incorporates a Biblical, Christ-centered approach to healing, restoration, and reconciliation to God, family, and to one's own dignity and self-worth, in a comfortable, safe, ocean environment.

San Juan Capistrano, CA (PRWEB) April 06, 2009 – Celebrate A New Life, http://www.celebratedrugrehab.com, a Christian drug and alcohol rehabilitation residential treatment program, is proud to announce its grand opening. The new program is part of the Hope by the Sea treatment facility in southern California coastal community of San Juan Capistrano, one of the very best treatment facilities in the United States. Celebrate A New Life incorporates a Biblical, Christ-centered approach to healing, restoration, and reconciliation to God, family, and to one's own dignity and self-worth, in a comfortable, safe, ocean environment.

Celebrate a New Life clients are transported to Saddleback Church for Celebrate Recovery® Meetings, Worship, and Bible studies. There, clients fellowship with others and to celebrate God's healing through the program's Eight Recovery Principals. Current Pastor, Rick Warren, says this experience allows those who work through the program to experience profound life change and freedom from their ‘hurts, habits and hang-ups’.

“By working and applying these Biblical principals, we begin to grow spiritually. We become free from our addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional behaviors. This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy and -most importantly-a stronger personal relationship with God and with others. As we progress through the program we discover our personal, loving and forgiving Higher Power-Jesus Christ, the one and only true Higher Power.”
Pastor John Baker, Founder, Celebrate Recovery®

Admission to Celebrate A New Life is the first step to saving a life. Here is how the process works:

Contact Celebrate A New Life by phone (800) 708-3173 Toll-Free, or complete an on-line contact form. All communication is protected by privacy laws.
The Intake Admissions Counselor will guide callers through the steps necessary for admission and answer all questions related to the program, visiting, and what to bring.
The Admissions Counselor will help with all travel arrangements including flight schedules and transportation from the airport.
Financial arrangements are made to reserving a stay with Celebrate A New Life at Hope by the Sea.
Pack for a trip (two to three week stay).
New clients are greeted at nearby airports in Orange County or Los Angeles
Celebrate A New Life staff from day one, right up to the day of discharge, treats each client with dignity, care, love and respect. The first day makes an important impression on the new client and staff members want it to be a positive experience.

Celebrate A New Life operates at Hope by The Sea, a state licensed and certified facility. Celebrate A New Life offers a high-quality program with affordable, individualized treatment plans. To learn more, call (800) 708-3173. “The miracle of recovery can be yours.” Visit http://www.celebratedrugrehab.com

Email: info@celebratedrugrehab.com

Contact:
Robert Nicholl
(800) 708-3173
bobbynicholl@gmail.com

Babyboomer parents and grandparents often wonder how it is possible that their kids may suffer grave consequences from smoking pot when they themselves turned out just fine. Legal troubles aside, researchers have found plenty of new evidence that Marijuana's health risks haven been vastly underestimated by the users of yesteryear.

Pot also packs a bigger wallop now than it did in the '70s. Marijuana has become more potent exposing users to much higher levels of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. The brain's functioning is greatly impacted by increasing impact of THC on its metabolism.

Using modern brain imaging, scientists have found that vital brain activities decline with the consumption of Marijuana, and the data shows that the effects are long-lasting – if damages can be reversed is largely unknown. Another big unknown is how a person's genes and environment may cause the development of psychiatric disorders. Some studies have concluded that people with a certain gene variant are several times more likely to develop schizophrenia after repeated Marijuana consumption.

However, there are also voices of caution among Marijuana researchers that findings of those studies cannot be applied to the public at large. Igor Grant, director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California doesn't believe there is any compelling evidence that people develop more psychiatric problems, anxiety, depression, or even psychosis as a result of marijuana use. He says that if there was such a causal effect, the surge of the drug's popularity in the '60s and '70s should have seen a distinct increase in cases of schizophrenia – which is apparently not the case.

Whichever way you choose to look at it, the statistics give good reason to be cautious: A recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that among marijuana users over age 12, almost 35 percent used marijuana 20 or more days in the past month.

Eye Movement Desensitizing Reprocessing Therapy

There is a real trend amongst holistic drug treatment centers to offer EMDR therapy as a part of an overall addiction recovery program.

EMDR, which stands for Eye Movement Desensitizing Reprocessing therapy, is a still somewhat controversial therapeutic technique that supposedly helps people to cope with the memory of traumatic events. Proponents rave about its efficacy and simplicity, and skeptics just want to see a bit more research data before jumping to firmly on that EMDR bandwagon.

But what is it? What is it supposed to do, and why should you get it done? I could explain, but this short video, produced by a therapist who uses the technique, does a pretty good job of answering these questions while letting you watch the process.