Addiction Treatment Success

Addiction Treatment SuccessDr. Timothy W. Wright’s testimonial about Addiction Treatment Success at Habilitat “The Place of Change.”
“All four of my children were born in Hawaii during the course of my 41 years in residence. HABILITAT was well-known to me by stand-out reputation, although it never occurred to me that “my life” would ever be affected by drugs. Coming out of a strong family background growing up, and dedicated to continuing that tradition for my own children, the threat of drug addiction was not something I even imagined. That changed when my teenagers entered the Hawaii public school scene and overnight drug issues seemed to loom everywhere, and some in my family couldn’t handle it. As a parent who wants to fight it, you try everything, and essentially make every amateur mistake as the situation gets away from you. With the urgent case of one son in trouble, I at least knew enough to approach HABILITAT for professional assistance.
From my first contact with HABILITAT, walking up to the gate to ask for help, the entire strength, purpose, logic, dedication, and effectiveness of that organization started to sink in. With zero personal experience, I could not know at that moment that I had engaged the institution that would have such a vital corrective impact on our family situation. HABITAT immediately educated me to what they were about, what they could do, and how they would do it. At their core was what they stood for, their independence from external bureaucratic resource leverage, and their technical approach to how they would put an incoming resident in charge of his own choices: no exceptions, and no short cuts to the long term residency commitment.
I remember the then Program Director telling me that the “Resident’s Bill of Rights” was: Do what we say or get out, and the gate is open if you want to walk. Then he told me that if I wanted to help, it was time for me to get out of the way. It was at that point I knew I had come to the right place. Thankfully my son walked in the HABILITAT gate and stayed. He made mistakes. He screwed up. But again, thankfully, he reached down deep enough to do it the HABILITAT way for the long haul. He succeeded. He graduated out of his residency. He has made himself personally and professionally successful and responsible in his life, stayed strong, and stayed aware and grateful for what HABILITAT truly accomplished with and for him. What a gift to my family.
HABILITAT is the best. I am still unable to fully comprehend how they can achieve such results against such a ferocious threat as drug addiction. But they do. If you approach HABILITAT you better mean it, whether you are a family member looking for help or a would-be resident: because if you don’t man-up to the drug reality that is in your face, it will defeat you. I have kept in touch with HABILITAT in the years since: the finest “action organization” addressing a problem I have ever encountered in any field.”
Signed: Timothy W. Wright, Ph.D.
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Addiction Treatment Success