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Addiction is a disease that affects a significant portion of the world's population. In South Africa and abroad, millions of people struggle with alcoholism, drug addiction, various other types of dependencies and eating disorders. Oasis Centre in Plettenberg Bay provides a safe place for addicts to find recovery, and has become one of the leading drug treatment faciltlies in South Africa.

The information and news below helps to enlighten individuals about the disease of addiction, and provides useful insight into addiction treatment and rehabilitation. Contact Oasis Centre in Plettenberg Bay to find out more about our drug treatment facility, or for more information about alcohol and drug addiction, dependencies, eating disorders and dysfunctional behaviours.

Drug addiction is a serious condition which should be treated with professional drug addiction counselling, and preferably in-patient treatment at a drug and alcohol rehab centre. Oasis Counselling Centre, located in picturesque Plettenberg Bay in South Africa, provides dedicated in-patient treatment for those suffering from drug addiction and all other types of addiction.

What is drug addiction?
Drug addiction is a disease that is incurable and progressive, and which worsens if not arrested. The most successful way of managing the disease and achieving abstinence is through an extended stay in a drug addiction treatment centre, where counselling is available, and the adoption of a 12 Step recovery programme.

What type of drug addiction treatment does Oasis Counselling Centre provide?
Oasis Counselling Centre is an Extended Primary Care facility, meaning that the programme offered lasts three or more months. Studies have found that clients have a better success rate in staying clean if they participate in in-patient treatment for at least three months.

Take a look at the drug treatment facilities at Oasis Counselling Centre to find out how they can help you or someone you know truggling with a drug problem.

Therapy
Drug addiction counselling offered at Oasis Counselling Centre comprises group therapy and individual counselling sessions. These types of therapies are both popular and successful methods of treating the disease of addiction. The qualified addiction counsellors and therapists at Oasis are fully qualified and include a registered social worker, a psychotherapist, and addictions counsellors.

The 12 Steps
Oasis Counselling Centre encourages clients to work a 12 Step recovery programme. This programme is used in organisations such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, as well as in rehabilitation centres around the world. The Minnesota Model of counselling incorporates the 12 Steps into therapy sessions, and enables clients to create a stable foundation from which to re-build their lives once they have left treatment.

12 Step fellowships such as AA and NA are excellent organisations offering meetings and support, as well as a programme of daily maintenance to help clients deal with life on life's terms.

Healthy body, healthy mind
A healthy lifestyle is an important part of recovery. Addiction is a disease that causes significant physical damage to sufferers. Whilst undergoing therapy at Oasis Counselling Centre, clients participate in daily beach walks, weekly nature excursions, practise yoga and meditation, and consume healthy, tasty and nourishing food.

Find recovery at Oasis Counselling Centre
"Oasis Counselling Centre provides a peaceful setting in Plettenberg Bay where addicts can deal with their demons and face the difficulties of life without drugs, and they don't have to do it alone. We're there with them, every step of the way," says Helen Schaffer, Director at Oasis. "Getting clean isn't easy, but we have highly professional and trusted drug treatment facilities at our rehab, which help clients begin to rebuild their lives, without drugs."

Contact Oasis Counselling Centre in Plettenberg Bay today for more information on their treatment centre in South Africa.

About the Author
Oasis Counselling Centre is a rehab with qualified addiction counsellors for treating drug addiction and alcoholism problems as well as other addictions.