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Drunk driving is a menace in California. It claims several lives each year. Most of the DUI incidents occurred due to high alcohol addiction or drug usage. Punishing the accused under law is not the only solution. A complete drug and alcohol treatment should be needed to spread awareness about the impact of drinking and taking drugs. Most of the addicts go for outpatient treatment instead of rehabilitation program. It is evident through statistics that longer-term residential treatment is more effective than quick clinical treatment. With proper treatment people can be set free from the chemical addiction of drug and alcohol.

In longer rehabilitation treatment people help people to get sober and clean. It has the greatest influence on the people under treatment. Hopeless and despondent mood of the patient changed into healthy, hopeful, and full of freedom character after the treatment. Two sides of addiction treatment are there namely, clinical components and therapy /social development opportunity. Combination of these two sides is seen in residential treatment program only. In this treatment learning and developing is the main key. Group sessions are important to groom up these people under the guidance of expert professional. In this way they come to know each other and share their experiences and thoughts. This improves the mental status of the patient and makes them more thoughtful.

There are many organizations in California for drug rehabilitation and alcohol treatment. To make the treatment program more effective there should be extensive study of costs, benefits and effectiveness of alcohol and drug treatment. In this process California Drug and Alcohol Treatment Assessment plays a vital role. It specifically assesses the effects of treatment on patient behavior, the total costs of different treatment, and the economic value of different treatment to society. Alcohol treatment and drug rehab is an extended process that involves professionals in the addiction treatment field. You should check before going for any treatment program.

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THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had 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 to 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 became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when 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 the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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This version of the 12 steps is an adaptation from the original 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and is intended for general use with any addictive or dysfunctional behavior.

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had 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 God.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to 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 God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when 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 God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.