Nobody wakes up one morning and decides that today is the day they will try and get addicted to drugs or alcohol. There usually is a lot of underlying circumstance such as abuse, learned behavior, coping, or peer pressure to name a few. The problem is not in experimenting with a substance one time, it is when that experimentation leads to an addiction that overtakes a person’s life and starts to ruin it. The good news is there is help available, the addicted just has to want to get the help they need in order to break the addiction and turn their life around. Being a woman is hard enough, even in this day-and-age, but to be a woman who is addicted to drugs and trying to raise a child(ren) makes it even harder. Thankfully in the state of Wisconsin,
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(n.d.). The best part about this facility is that it allows the mother’s to keep their children with them. Some may argue that is not a healthy environment for the children, but it is less damaging than having to separate them during the treatment process. It also helps teach the mother’s a good sense of discipline for their children, and how to properly administer it without violence or …show more content…
Therapeutic community (TC) is a generic term for residential, self-help, drug-free treatment programs that have some common characteristics, including concepts adopted from Alcoholics Anonymous (Abadinsky, H. (January, 2013). There is no specific data when it comes to the effectiveness of the programs offered at The Beacon House so it is hard to say just how effective the programs really are. However, the fact that the facility has been around for over twenty years must mean that there is at least a decent amount of success stories coming from it or they would have closed their doors by now. Many TCs release statistics that cannot withstand scrutiny by disinterested researchers. In a study of two TCs, researchers found that while participants who complete the programs showed positive treatment effects, a 50 percent drop-out rate may indicate that successful residents have unique characteristics, commitment to change, for example, that explain the results (Abadinsky, H. (January,
(n.d.). The best part about this facility is that it allows the mother’s to keep their children with them. Some may argue that is not a healthy environment for the children, but it is less damaging than having to separate them during the treatment process. It also helps teach the mother’s a good sense of discipline for their children, and how to properly administer it without violence or …show more content…
Therapeutic community (TC) is a generic term for residential, self-help, drug-free treatment programs that have some common characteristics, including concepts adopted from Alcoholics Anonymous (Abadinsky, H. (January, 2013). There is no specific data when it comes to the effectiveness of the programs offered at The Beacon House so it is hard to say just how effective the programs really are. However, the fact that the facility has been around for over twenty years must mean that there is at least a decent amount of success stories coming from it or they would have closed their doors by now. Many TCs release statistics that cannot withstand scrutiny by disinterested researchers. In a study of two TCs, researchers found that while participants who complete the programs showed positive treatment effects, a 50 percent drop-out rate may indicate that successful residents have unique characteristics, commitment to change, for example, that explain the results (Abadinsky, H. (January,