- Addiction is a chronic brain disease and requires long-term treatment.
- Stress is one of the main factors that contributes to addiction and relapse.
- It takes 8 to 12 years on average for the addiction to become embedded in the brain.
- Addiction occurs in the primitive part of the brain, which is the region of the brain that regulates our primary functions (eating, drinking, sex).
- Most addictions begin in puberty when the brain has not yet fully matured.
- Addicts are not responsible for their addiction but they are responsible for their treatment.
- 30% to 60% of addictions are genetically determined.
- Children of addicted parents are at a 40% higher risk of developing an addiction.
- Day treatment
or part-time treatment options are available. Together with you, we
will determine on which days you will be participating in our day
treatment/part-time treatment programme.
Throughout 2011, RoderSana will be opening a number of new day treatment clinics at various locations. - Addiction is a modern-day illness and the number of addictions will increase in future years.
- Sports and healthy eating habits have a positive impact on brain repair.
- Our brain repairs itself after the addiction has been conquered.
- A brain scan taken one year into the recovery from addiction will reveal that the brain has partially repaired itself.
“As both his daughters Carolien and Mireille, and his wife Eva had given him an ultimatum (you either admit yourself to an addiction clinic or you will never see us again), Karel arrived at our clinic with hesitation.”
