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INTEGRATED TREATMENT FOR THE BODY, MIND AND SOUL
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APM and ADEPT
an integrated counseling service
for substance abuse and mental health serving Anne Arundel County and surrounding areas
8028 Ritchie Highway, Suite 313
Pasadena, MD 21122
office: (410) 761-0725
fax: (410) 761-2412
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Addiction is the act of becoming physiologically and/or psychologically dependent on a drug or other harmful substance. It is to turn ones life over to a mood altering substance, causing periods of unmanageability and turbulence.
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Addictions is a disease, that affects not only the substance user, but families as well. It does not discriminate. Treatment can and does work.
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Denial usually allows a substance abuse problem to continue and often get worse. The drug of choice often enables the chemically dependent person to deal with everyday problems that seem to enormous to handle. This causes the chemically dependent person to minimize the extent of his or her problem and sometimes deny that one exists. Every person goes through periods of denial because of fear. The chemically dependent person fears being labeled an “alcoholic” or even worse “drug addict”.
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