Abstinence alone is not the cure for addiction. While it is helpful and sometimes essential to participate in an initial detox program, and live in a safe sober home environment or have a sober companion while you participate in Renew's Addiction Recovery Program, it is important to also recognize that addictions are more than a clean and abstinent environment sterilized from triggers that may lead you to use. What is important is that you truly heal from within, so that you are able to resist the urges to revert back to negative and destructive behaviors when you are living in your reality-based setting. 

At Renew we understand that treating addictions is a complex and systemic process involving the treatment of multiple systems of the body, mind, and relationships. Dr. Palmer handles the interventions in a careful and customized way with a multidisciplinary team of support and sister facilities. We understand that addiction can also wreak havoc on all systems of the body creating mental and physical stress.

Substances change the way your brain processes and functions. Not only does someone experience physical withdrawals, chemical imbalances, adrenal stress and other physiological symptoms, they can experience thought addictions, self-sabotage, emotional discomforts, toxic thinking, relationship turmoil, financial distress, and other mishaps which participate in or maintain the vicious cycles of addiction.

In other words, there are problems that originally caused the addiction, problems currently perpetuating the addiction, and problems caused by the addiction.