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What if you could get over your addiction with customized substance abuse treatment?
What if thousands of people recommended the same road to substance abuse recovery?
Exclusive, New Addiction-Treatment Option at Memorial Hermann Prevention and Recovery Center
 
 
What if you could get the specialized help you needed without leaving the necessary support of family and friends? What if there was an addiction treatment program tailored to your individual goals?

At the Memorial Hermann Prevention and Recovery Center (PaRC), we never stop asking what if. Constantly asking what if is why we’re the only Houston center to offer innovative programs like the PROMETA™ treatment protocol, a medically based approach to alcohol, cocaine or methamphet-amine dependence. This program, led by Dr. Eugene Degner, board certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine, is just one of the ways we can help. Our expert staff includes psychiatrists, social workers, nurses and counselors. PaRC is a 90-bed, freestanding, adult facility open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It’s just another example of how we make breakthroughs-every day.

For more information about how we can help you achieve success, call anytime. 713.939.7272, toll-free at 1.877.464.7272 or online at www.mhparc.org.
 
98 percent of people who received care at Memorial Hermann Prevention and RecoveryCenter would recommend it to their friends.
What if you had access to a nationally recognized addiction recovery program right here in Houston? What if there was a recovery program tailored to meet your individual goals? At the Memorial Hermann Prevention and Recovery Center (PaRC), we never stop asking what if. Constantly asking what if is how we are able to create custom-tailored programs to meet your individual goals. It’s why so many of our former patients have such positive things to say about their time here. Our expert staff includes psychiatrists, social workers, nurses and counselors. The PaRC is a 90-bed, freestanding adult facility open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It’s just another example of how we make breakthroughs—every day.

To take a virtual tour of our facility or an online self-assessment, visit www.mhparc.org. You can also call us anytime at 713-939.7272 or toll-free at 1-877-464-7272.
 
Exclusive, New Addiction-Treatment Option
Houston, Texas – With an estimated 140,000 Houstonians struggling with alcohol or drug addiction*, Memorial Hermann Prevention and Recovery Center is offering an innovative new treatment option to address neurochemical imbalances in the brain.

The PROMETA™ treatment protocol, offered in Houston exclusively through Memorial Hermann Prevention and Recovery Center, is a medically based approach to alcohol, cocaine or methamphetamine dependence. In addition to its effect on neurochemical imbalances, the treatment also addresses nutritional deficits related to substance dependence.

“ Addiction is determined to be a brain disease by the American Medical Association and the World Health Organization,” said Eugene Degner, M.D., medical director of the Memorial Hermann Prevention and Recovery Center. “Scientific evidence has established that the substance-dependent brain is physiologically and biochemically different from a ‘normal’ brain. Until now, our therapeutic options have been limited, but the PROMETA™ treatment protocols are specifically designed to address these neurochemical changes.”

Studies show that changes in brain chemistry and function play an important role in the physical and behavioral symptoms of substance dependence, including tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, craving and relapse. Until now, treatments for substance dependence have not directly addressed the underlying medical aspects of the disease.

“Substance dependence is a complex disease, including physiological, genetic, psychosocial and environmental factors,” Dr. Degner said. “We want those who are struggling to know that there is a medical explanation for the problem.”

Substance abuse has a devastating economic, social and human impact on the country’s population. The economic burden for healthcare costs and productivity losses in the United States is estimated at $345 billion annually.

*Based on 6.86% of Texans in the SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse who experienced alcohol or illicit drug dependence or abuse in the past year, rounded to 7% and applied to the current City of Houston population of approximately 2,000,000.
 
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