Can We Cure Addiction?
"Can we cure addiction? Absolutely not! This is because addiction has caused unrecoverable changes, alterations and death to brain cells. Brain cells cannot be regenerated, so the changes caused by the drug abuser are permanent. What we can do is arrest the illness, teach new living techniques, rewrite the brain to bypass those addicted cells and give the addict in recovery a worthwhile life. It can't be cured but addiction can be effectively prevented and treated."
Darryl Inaba, Pharm.D.
RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT PROGRAMS
The life-long journey in recovery starts when an addict finally admits and accepts her or his addiction as life-long and surrenders to the long-term, one-day-at-a-time treatment process.
OUTPATIENT PROGRAMS
Continued participation in group, family, and 12-step programs is the key to maintaining long-term abstinence from alcohol and drugs. The addict must accept that addiction is chronic, progressive, incurable, and potentially fatal and that relapse is always possible.
"I know that I have another relapse in me. I don't know if I have another recovery in me."
7-year member of A.A.
31501 Rancho Viejo Road #101
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Call Us Today: 866-225-3260
Able To Change Recovery Staff
Cindy Brooks, BA, CATC
Cindy joined our organizations team of addiction treatment professions in March 2010. She possesses special talents and skills that amazingly allow our clients to express themselves through art. Her services are very well received and after a long week of therapy and emotions, our clients look forward to her relaxing and comforting therapy sessions.
Cindy is a member of the California Association for Drug and Alcohol Educators and a Certified Addiction Treatment Counselor. She has special education in Art for Healing and Creativity and has been counseling recovering addicts and alcoholics since 2007. Cindy brings creative expressive art into the hearts of the clients as a tool for healing. She received a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts from Wittenberg University and obtained her Alcohol and Drug Studies certificate from Saddleback College. Cindy is in the process of receiving a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology.
Her previous employment includes working in a detoxification inpatient program, other residential treatment settings and the satellite office of Alcoholics Anonymous. Cindy currently brings art into hospitals, domestic violence shelters and psychiatric units. She plans on becoming a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist emphasizing the use of Expressive Arts in her practice.
Cindy has raised four beautiful children and has two grandsons. She currently lives in San Clemente where she has the opportunity to create and enjoy a blessed life
