{"quotes":[{"text":"If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["addiction","addiction-and-recovery","alcohol-addiction","alcoholism","chris-prentiss","drug-addiction","non-12-step","passages-malibu","passages-ventura","pax-prentiss","relapse","withdrawal"],"id":17044,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that 'once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict' and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["addiction","chris-prentiss","holistic","holistic-health","non-12-step","passages-malibu","passages-rehab","passages-treatment-center","passages-ventura","pax-prentiss","therapy","treatment","wellbeing","wellness","zen-and-the-art-of-happiness"],"id":25838,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating 'alcoholism' as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying 'scratchism' for people who have a chronic itch.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["addiction","alcoholism","alcoholism-addiction-recovery","chris-prentiss","health","holistic-treatment","passages-malibu","passages-ventura","pax-prentiss","science"],"id":107042,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help others discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["addiction","alcoholism","chris-prentiss","holistic-health","passages-malibu","passages-ventura","pax-prentiss"],"id":110673,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["addiction-treatment-center","alcohol","alcohol-addiction","chris-prentiss","passages-malibu","passages-ventura","pax-prentiss"],"id":132839,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["addict","addiction","addiction-cure","addiction-disease","addiction-treatment-center","alcohol-addiction","alcohol-addiction-treatment","alcohol-disease","alcohol-rehab","alcoholic","alcoholics-anonymous","alcoholism","alcoholism-addiction-recovery","chris-prentiss","dependency","depression","disease","drug-addiction","healing-addiction","inspiration","inspire","passages-malibu","passages-ventura","pax-prentiss","rehab","rehab-centers","self-help"],"id":174119,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"I began asking myself just what my high was about. What did I do when I was high that I didn't do when I was sober? What was wrong that heroin fixed?","author":"Pax Prentiss","tags":["addiction","heroin","passages-malibu","pax-prentiss"],"id":268976,"author_id":"Pax+Prentiss"},{"text":"It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.","author":"Pax Prentiss","tags":["addiction","addiction-treatment","alcohol-rehab","bravery","drug-rehab","fate","passages-malibu","passages-rehab","passages-treatment-center","pax-prentiss","trust"],"id":400978,"author_id":"Pax+Prentiss"},{"text":"Heroin was a coping mechanism that I had used to deal with my underlying fears. They were the real problems; heroin wasn't the culprit, my fears were.","author":"Pax Prentiss","tags":["addiction","heroin","pax-prentiss"],"id":440669,"author_id":"Pax+Prentiss"},{"text":"There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["addiction","chris-prentiss","depression","medical-research","medical-treatment","passages-malibu","pax-prentiss","sadness","wellbeing"],"id":446867,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}