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Though the medical profession labels alcoholism and addiction - America's No. 1 health problems - as incurable diseases that are manageable at best
one man is determined to prove that there is a complete cure for those twin demons.

According to Chris Prentiss
co-founder of the world-famous Passages Rehab Center in Malibu
Calif.
and author of the new book
The Alcoholism & Addiction Cure, A Holistic Approach To Total Recovery,
the current treatment methods are obsolete. Prentiss says that alcohol and drugs are not the problem.

"It will be clear to anyone who thinks about it
he says,
that we are using drugs and alcohol to try and cope with lives that are not working. We use them to change the way we feel
to blur the images that haunt us
to deal with failure
broken hearts
growing up
stress
depression
trauma and all the other events that regularly befall all of us. Once the real reasons we are drinking and using addictive drugs are discovered and cured
our dependency disappears along with our cravings."

Although that's a strong claim
Prentiss relies on statistics to prove his point. In an era when the national relapse rate is between 80 percent and 90 percent
Passages reports that 84.6 percent of their graduates have remained sober.

Prentiss' book describes the Passages holistic three-step program in detail
and it lists what he claims are the four causes of dependency and how to cure them. He says that each person's reasons for using substances are unique
and therefore each person's treatment
if it is to succeed
must also be unique.

Prentiss became involved in the field to save his son's life from 10 years of addiction to heroin
cocaine and alcohol.