Northeast Addiction and Mental Health Centre for Holistic Recovery
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Mission Statement
Mental illness, addiction, and chronic pain have devastating impacts on individuals and society, and need ongoing follow up. The solutions to these problems lie with the self, and how it relates to the self. At NAM, we believe that better is possible. We believe in holistic recovery for all.
About This Cause
NAM is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing integrated addiction treatment that is evidence-based and trauma-focused. Founded in 2018 by Dr. Harbir Singh Gill, a certified addiction medicine specialist, NAM was formed to increase access to affordable, medically supervised, holistic recovery with special attention to marginalized populations. NAM staff use a recovery coaching paradigm to holistically address the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual facets of addiction, mental health, and chronic pain in a model we call the Recovery Diamond. Spiritual: This faceted foundation of the recovery diamond that increases a person’s capacity to love themselves and others authentically. If people truly love themselves, making changes that support them becomes possible. Biological: Things that directly make a person’s neurobiology healthier. Toxins in the blood (i.e., drugs and alcohol) make it difficult to heal. Social: Mental health and addiction often isolate people from healthy connections, either totally isolating them or making them engage with unhealthy company. Psychological: These involve a person’s thinking patterns. There are aspects people are aware of (conscious) and unaware of (subconscious). These patterns permeate into coping patterns and relationships. Often these ways of relating and coping are not helpful but need to be cultivated. Without a holistic approach, patients can generally maintain short to medium term abstinence either by “white knuckling it” or by shifting one behavior for another, for example trading alcoholism for workaholism. However, because the underlying issues are not addressed, relapse is much more common, as the fundamental stressors still remain (due to diminished recognition of problems in relationships and emotional dysregulation). Following a holistic assessment, diagnoses will be established and a complete treatment plan will be made, and then worked on. Our goal is to promote self efficacy in treatment, and not to make the patient dependent on our therapy services. We will follow as long as it is beneficial to do so and for as long as necessary; for some this may involve life long treatment. All services are offered in English and Punjabi. At NAM Centre for Holistic Recovery, we recognize that addiction and mental health is a disease that affects families. Families are therefore a key part of the solution, and we will engage family as much as possible to develop sustainable recovery.