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.
Effective, affordable, and quality
alcohol and drug abuse rehab center
31882 Camino Capistrano Ste.#220
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Call Us Today: 866-225-3260
Able To Change Recovery Staff
Ronald Israel, MA, CADC II, NCAC I, ICADC
Mr. Israel is an addiction professional with over 28 years of service in the field of chemical dependency. He earned his Bachelors of Arts degree in Human Services at Cal State University Fullerton, and his Master of Arts degree in Management Health Services. He holds certifications as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor Level II, National Certified Addiction Counselor, and an Internationally Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor. After 8 years of service as Director of Addiction Services at Charter Behavioral Health Systems in Mission Viejo, he pursued private practice in Laguna Beach. In 2000, Mr. Israel began his affiliation with Able to Change Recovery when he held its first program group counseling session for a hand full of tough hard-core alcoholic-addicts at his small private practice office. It was the begriming of his dedication to help develop the Able to Change Recovery treatment program into what is is today.
As founder of Hawk Counseling and Consulting, Mr. Israel continues his private practice in Dana Point, CA where he provides outpatient individual counseling, family counseling, intervention services, and addiction treatment consulting. Having served as Regional Director of the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (CAADAC), he is dedicated to helping bring new addiction counselors into the field. He is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a native Californian. Mr. Israel has four children, three grandchildren, and resides with his wife Brenda and their Doberman Jazz, in Rancho Margarita California.
