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Freedom Foundation's treatment programme is based on the principle, abstinence is only the first stage of the recovery process. Genuine sobriety means abstinence plus a return to full physical, psychological, social, emotional and spiritual health.

Following the AA/NA 12-steps programme,it incorporates effective and modern techniques of group and individual counselling, psychiatric inputs when required, yoga and a well-structured schedule with daily attendance of AA/NA meetings.

The process:

  • Dual Diagnosis of patients where the treatment combines dual aspects of the clients health disorders i.e. both dependency and any other psychiatric disorder
  • Healthy interactions with the medical psychiatric community addressing the client's cases from this dual standpoint
  • Group therapy sessions divided into two small groups under the supervision of one counsellor each, to improve client-counsellor interaction and gain in depth inputs from counsellors regarding the progress of clients.
  • Patients to undertake written exercises to get over negative feelings. This would not just be confined between patients and their respective counsellors but shared within a designated group for a more varied feedback.
  • Counsellers to process the `daily thoughts and feelings' of the patients.
  • Special meetings for families of in-patients every weekend during treatment

The residential treatment entails a stay for a minimum period of 4 months (120 days). All basic amenities are provided including a well-balanced, nutritious diet (vegetarian/non-vegetarian).

Freedom Foundation is primarily a rehabilitation facility. It is recommended that the clients undergo detoxification at any of the numerous hospitals/nursing homes available. However, adequate facilities including doctor and medication are available for detoxification at Freedom Foundation, whenever necessary.

From initial management of withdrawal symptoms, the client adheres to a structural daily schedule with adequate free time for entertainment especially during weekends.

Families are allowed to meet the clients during weekends on prior permission from the concerned counsellor.

Clients are to work the first three steps of the NA/AA 12-step programme on an intensive level in groups and individually with their counsellors. On satisfactory progress of the step work, clients are shifted to TRANSIT accommodation during the last 2-4 weeks. They then commence working step 4 onwards with a sponsor of their choice in the AA/NA fellowship.

The Transit period prepares them to face the world again with a fresh perspective not to mention fortitude. The shift from the rehabilitation progress to integration with society is thus monitored for a fruitful and productive transition.

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12 steps programme

Study of these Steps is essential to progress in the AA/NA program. The principles they embody are universal and applicable to everyone, whatever his religion or creed. At Freedom Foundation, we strive for a deeper understanding of these Steps, and pray for the wisdom to apply them to our lives. They are:

1. We admit that we are powerless over alcohol- that our lives have become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and become willing to made amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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