What Makes Las Vegas Recovery Center Different?

Today, treatment centers can be found in just about every major city and small town. Chances are you probably have read about those other treatment centers. Or perhaps this is the first time you are reading about a treatment center. Either way, we can guess what you have seen—pictures of beautiful facilities located on a beach with white-capped waves cresting onto the sand, or cozy cottages nestled among towering trees with mountains piercing the horizon, or maybe institutional prison-type settings. You probably have read about the lessons offered by a tennis pro, or about maximizing the detox process by sitting in a sweat lodge, or about a drill instructor screaming at you that you are in denial. But what does it all mean? How do these things translate to recovery from drug addiction?

Las Vegas Recovery Center
You might want tennis lessons or feel you need a drill instructor, but Las Vegas Recovery Center has everything one needs to begin the discovery and recovery process. Our goal is "first you get clean and address your problems; then you can take a vacation or go to a spa." We are not trying to downplay our centers. Our facilities are first-rate and our amenities are second-to-none, but it is our staff, with their knowledge and experience of addiction and recovery, that makes us different. We do not try to make the recovery process painless, since life and growth are painful. This is part of the healing process. Our compassionate and dedicated staff will walk with clients as the recovery process begins and the totality of addiction unfolds.

The Recovery Process
Recovery is messy; it is difficult and does not always feel good. When clients come to Las Vegas Recovery Center, they are going to feel! Feeling emotions without the cushion of substances is a terrifying concept for most addicts. They try everything to avoid feeling. We work with clients to bring up those buried emotions from the darkness of addiction into the light of recovery. We bring reality to recovery, giving clients the opportunity to experience real results and real change. This is done in a safe, comfortable, and loving environment.

The recovery process cannot easily be put into words or captured in a photograph. It cannot be printed on paper or shown on television. It is a process of heartfelt connection between staff and clients in which empathy allows the healing process to begin. A client said, "Never have I been to a place where love and respect could be scooped from the air." We believe real recovery comes from one place—the heart. Our staff will not allow clients to hide from their feelings. After all, they have been hiding for a lifetime.

We assist clients in being accountable for their actions. We offer love and support while guiding them to take responsibility for their actions. Personal responsibility is a building block in the foundation of recovery. One client who went through treatment at Las Vegas Recovery Center said, "They were with me during my most painful moments, and they were there to congratulate and support me when I celebrated one year of recovery and staying clean!"

Clients entering treatment will find compassionate, flexible treatment that offers hope. Our comprehensive education about the disease of addiction leaves no stone unturned. We believe addiction is much more than addictive use of substances. Addiction does not discriminate. Addiction does not care how many degrees one has or how many square feet make up one's home or even if one has a home. We see the addict simply as a human being who has suffered and endured a life of pain, but we hold no sympathy for our clients, only empathy.

Family Involvement
We also understand that each client's family has endured pain. This is why Las Vegas Recovery Center incorporates family into our clients' recovery process. It is important for our clients to begin healing, but families need to heal as well. This is a simple, though vital, component of recovery—multiple voices with a singular purpose. And that is the purpose of healing.

If recovery is a journey with no destination, then CRT is the start of that journey. It is never too late to begin the recovery journey, because we believe anyone can find recovery. We believe anyone can find a new way of life, dare to dream again, find hope, and begin to trust in a life free of addiction.