We at Passages Addiction Cure Center have learned that there are only four causes of all dependency:

1. Chemical imbalance in the brain;
2. Unresolved events from the past;
3. Beliefs you hold that are inconsistent with what is true;
4. An inability to cope with current conditions.

Notice we do not list genetics as a cause. There are millions of people in the United States whose parents and/or grandparents were addicts or alcoholics and they are not. Either they do not use at all, or they can use socially without becoming dependent. Neither do we say that relapse is due to your having the “disease” of alcoholism or addiction. We know that neither addiction nor alcoholism are diseases, but symptoms of one or more of the four causes, and that once the causes have been discovered and healed, dependence on drugs, alcohol or addictive behavior ends.

Repairing the damage of drug and alcohol abuse requires one-to-one holistic treatment. Group therapy is very limited in its ability to heal deep underlying issues in a person’s life. The one-to-one approach to physical and mental treatment is by far the most effective approach to healing. Passages Malibu offers a series of one-to-one therapeutic sessions to treat, counsel, and heal patients suffering from addiction. Here on our peaceful campus on the coast of Southern California, clients recover in a limited-enrollment program designed to heal the underlying problems that are causing them to use. Once a client’s underlying problems have been healed, the need for drugs or alcohol disappears completely.

Whether you or a loved one is suffering from a heroin addiction, morphine dependency, or cocaine addiction, or whether you have been dealing with chronic alcoholism for years, we can help you to relieve the physical symptoms you are enduring and pave the way for a clean, sober and happy future. The Passages Malibu drug and alcohol treatment center has graduated many hundreds of sober, profoundly grateful people. Feel free to read some of their stories and testimonials while visiting our site.

A SMOOTH TRANSITION TO PERMANENT SOBRIETY WITH PASSAGES

The road to recovery does not have to be a stressful, uneasy experience. Your treatment team at Passages will make you feel comfortable and safe so that you can open up and allow us to help you heal. Our one-to-one approach for treating alcoholism or to drug addiction was pioneered at Passages. Other treatment centers still use the traditional group meeting approach as the main part of their program.

Instead, what most addicts need is a holistic program, meaning one that treats the whole person, body, mind and spirit. Here at Passages, that’s exactly what we offer in addition to more than 60 hours of private, individual therapy sessions each month. After all, people abuse drugs and alcohol in an attempt to cope with underlying problems, and the Passages Malibu Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center is well-equipped to handle those aspects of rehab.

Here at Passages Malibu, we know that far from being a mental or spiritual weakness, the addictive impulse is actually a protective one. It is just a misguided attempt on the part of your body to restore order. At Passages, clients learn how to handle their addictive impulses through 60 private sessions of professional one-to-one addiction treatment. Before addiction takes over your life completely, give us a call at from 7am-10pm Pacific Standard time, 365 days a year to speak with one of our truly caring admissions counselors now.

CHANGING THE TREATMENT PROGRAM PARADIGM

Unlike other programs that place clients in crowded rooms and force them to do chores such as scrubbing floors and cleaning toilets to “earn their keep,” we treat our guests as we would want to be treated ourselves, providing extensive luxuries and amenities. Enjoy your own bathroom, a first-class tennis court, a kitchen offering a wide assortment of delicious gourmet foods, a gymnasium, beautiful vistas of the Pacific Ocean on the California coastline, and quiet corners in which you can relax.

We also believe that clients should not be deprived of friends and family while undergoing drug and alcohol treatment. Would you keep a heart patient from seeing his family before, during, or after surgery? By surrounding clients with love, attention, and great amenities, they are able to relax to the point that they can really open up to discuss the underlying causes for their drug or alcohol abuse. We also permit the use of cell phones and computers, providing them if you need them.

THE MAGIC OF THE PASSAGES MALIBU METHOD: ONE-TO-ONE TREATMENT

Something magical happens during the course of a month in our intensive drug and alcohol treatment program, although it is really necessary to be at the facility to believe it. For insight into the magic behind the Passages Malibu drug and alcohol treatment techniques, read the testimonials on our website—including Passages co-founder Pax Prentiss’s own account of his ten year addiction saga. To watch firsthand as a person transforms, sometimes within only a few days of arrival at Passages, and renews his or her life is one of the most thrilling and rewarding experiences imaginable.

Tens of millions of Americans suffer from mild to severe addiction to drugs and alcohol. With incredible advances in addiction treatment techniques and psychotherapy, one would assume that most clinics are able to maintain relatively good rehab performance statistics. The truth is that nearly every addiction treatment center, other than Passages, uses group therapy for treatment, and bases their programs on the 12-step model.

In these group rehab programs, so-called addicts and alcoholics meet with other addicts and alcoholics to discuss their symptoms, their lives, and their treatments. They are with the same people in the same room with the same counselors, day after day, listening to each other’s stories, hoping some magical word will drop into their laps and miraculously cure them. By the end of the first week, you know everyone else’s story, and they know yours, and it goes on for three more weeks.

While the group treatment method offers solace and a sense of community, it is not a substitute for individual attention. Group-oriented drug and alcohol abuse treatment centers offer only one solution for all addictions—more group treatment. By analogy, if you develop a lung ailment, would you want only other people who have a lung ailment to try to heal you? Absolutely not. You would want doctors who have studied the subject to treat you. Additionally, if you met with your doctor, complaining of an unknown pain in your chest or head, would you want your doctor to treat you without fully exploring your specific medical history, other symptoms that might be related to your particular pain, or past failed attempts?

These gaps in the logic of group drug and alcohol treatment centers can be very costly. Typical programs have a success rate hovering around 10 percent and a relapse rate of about 90 percent. Some group programs boast of higher numbers, but we encourage you to look at these statistics carefully. Often, group programs will only track successes for the first 6 months or year. After that, statistics are very difficult to keep. Many studies show that, while group treatment centers may provide much-needed drug and alcohol detox and short-term help with rehabilitation, over the long term, group therapy has only a slim chance of helping someone.

WHY THE PASSAGES MALIBU METHOD WORKS

Enter Passages Addiction Cure Center. We are a completely different kind of drug and alcohol treatment center. Our facility in sunny Malibu, California is inspiring, relaxing, and beautiful, allowing our patients to retreat into their respective treatment programs. Our success rate is significantly higher than any other drug and alcohol abuse treatment center in the world.

While we have treated many hundreds of clients, including A-list celebrities, heads of state, and top executives of Fortune 500 companies, most of our clients are average folks from middle class Ameraica who have also wrestled with major addiction problems for years to decades. Because we are expensive, and even though many people have to struggle financially to get here, they all say it’s not only worth it, but it’s also the best decision they ever made to come to Passages Addiction Cure Center.

We have the highest success rate in the country because we provide:

How do we implement our method? We place a team of 10 therapists with each client. Our unmatched treatment program offers extensive amounts of one-to-one attention and therapy and we revise our approach to each client as we become more familiar with each client’s case. We invite relatives and friends to help you in your recovery. We treat you with dignity. We get to the bottom of your drug or alcohol issues by exploring everything from your habits, to your diet, to your childhood. Each addiction story is different, and we understand that unpacking someone’s personal history takes patience, kindness, and intelligence.

Please review the personal statement of our co-founder, Pax Prentiss, as well as testimonials from dozens of happy, now completely sober graduates of our drug and alcohol rehab program. One of the most important aspects of the Passages Malibu method is that we know that alcoholism and addiction are NOT incurable diseases. In fact, they are not diseases at all. They are merely symptoms of an underlying problem. Passages can make your transition from drug and alcohol abuse to sober living easy, comfortable, and permanent.

For a more detailed description of how to heal the underlying causes of your dependency, read The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure by Chris Prentiss. Chris is co-founder and co-director of the Passages Addiction Cure Center in Malibu, California, and Passages is the most effective treatment center in the world of drug and alcohol rehab.

Full recovery is not only possible, it’s probable. Learn how to cope with your traumas and revitalize your life or the life of someone you care about. For more information, please call. Call us today at from 7am-10pm Pacific Standard time, 365 days a year to speak more in-depth with one of our addiction counselors.

And remember, we believe in a cure, and we believe in you.