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The Sunshine Summit Rehabilitation Approach

At Sunshine Summit Lodge, a San Diego county rehabilitation facility guided by the principles of the Narconon Fresh Start Program, clients are viewed as students of life rather than as addicts. With the mission to treat drug and alcohol addiction as something that can be eliminated from a person's life for long-term sobriety, the program's 76% success rate is founded on a program that educates each student about their addiction and about themselves in order to properly heal and recover from addiction on a physical, emotional, and psychological level.

The program begins with the physical effects of drug and alcohol addiction by addressing withdrawal, which is monitored 24 hours a day by specialists who have been trained to understand the process and help each client through this challenging time. Each client is handled separately for privacy and comfort. The detoxification process also involves rest, vitamin supplements, and nutritious meals, but there are no drugs used to wean a patient off their addictions because this is not a means of achieving complete withdrawal. The detoxification process takes many weeks to ensure that all toxins and residuals have completely left the client's body.

Once this process is completed, the client is able to migrate to the role of student where they can focus on specific issues that may have led to the addiction so that they can modify their behaviors and learn the coping strategies that will help them maintain lifelong sobriety. A number of courses are provided to help the students over the course of many months. Three of these courses include the life skills, communications, and learning improvement courses. These educational courses are intended to help clients become more aware of causes in their lives and internal issues so that they can create the solutions themselves that will enable them to change their life course. Recognizing that this is not very easy for most people, the communications course provides a way for clients to increase their skills in this area to express themselves and learn how to effectively interact with others and reach a level of personal responsibility that will provide a way to live without alcohol or drug dependency.