TROPICAL OASIS DRUG TREATMENT CENTER IN COSTA RICA

Our alcohol and drug rehab retreat succeeds because it has the essential elements: Education, Therapy, and Lifeskills

Tropical Oasis' Nueva Vida Health & Wellness Retreat is located in beautiful Costa Rica on the central pacific coast. Our residential retreat is a safe place of non judgement and recognition of courage - the courage to change.

Our goal is to show each "guest" who comes here that they have an inborn pure core that no one can take from them and they have never lost it.

As a team we put great value on guiding principles and professional conduct. We strive to make each person feel welcome and part of our family at Tropical Oasis.

For many, just the peace and serenity found at our facility is the catalyst needed to begin the recovery process. We encourage everyone that chooses Tropical Oasis to enjoy the tropical surroundings and plentiful wildlife that takes refuge on our property. Here are a few reasons why our clients recommend Tropical Oasis Drug and Alcohol Retreat:

• First and foremost, our guests are treated with dignity, respect, and understanding.
• We honor total anonymity.
• We recognize our guests as individuals.
• Our drug and alcohol retreat program provides individually focused treatment and respects individual choices, concerns and needs.
• We provide education, guidance, suggestions, and support.
• We believe and support the success of every one of our guests.

Our Cost

Tropical Oasis Drug Rehab and Retreat Center offers better than comparable rates for an incomparable treatment of addictions program. Comparable Drug Rehab Centers in the U.S. are $28-38,p00+ PER MONTHn

Fully staffed with all Professional Therapy Staff; Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Drug and Alcohol Counselor, Pastor, Chef de Cuisine, Housekeeping staff, Landscaping, Licenced Multi Passenger Driver, Property Managers and Security Services.

Please call for individual pricing.

Tropical Oasis Drug Rehab and Retreat Center is a luxurious 10 suite residential facility with spacious suites & private bathrooms. We are privately owned and our program is completely confidential. Complete anonymity is guaranteed. All inclusive items refers to all course materials, on premise professional chef prepared meals,healthy snacks, beverages, bedding, towels, laundry, housekeeping, transportation,fitness programs, massage or accupuncture, group events and outings, therapy staff, doctors & nurse as needed. No on premise detox.  As needed,all detox done on arrival at Catolica Hospital and priced separately.

Licensure and Accreditation

Tropical Oasis Drug and Alcohol Rehab and Retreat Treatment center is a Licensed and accredited drug rehab nationally by the Instituto de Alcoholismo y Farmacodependencia (National Institute of alcoholism and drug addiction) and by the Ministerio de Salud (State Health Department) in Costa Rica.  These organization hold the same standards of treatment as the United States.  This is why many Americans and Canadians Travel to Costa Rica for various medical treatments.

In addition, all of our psychologists and medical professionals are licensed and accredited in there prospective fields, either in the US or Costa Rica.  Some hold international certifications, allowing reciprocity in both the United States and Costa Rica.

Our Mission and Purpose

All through life we hear about what is wrong with us. Parents, teachers,best friends and enemies, boyfriends and girlfriends, professors, H.R. managers and interviewers, pastors and priests, employers, partners, spouses, in-laws, and on and on and on ad nauseum...the critic, the boss, the nag...even your mother...

Until one day the mind caves in on itself and the individual loses heart and emotionally falls apart.  Someone offers something guaranteed to lift the burden of pain- to make you feel better -  and the moment of possible addiction is born.  Whether by accident in a crash or a fall, or at a party while trying to appear relaxed and cool, or maybe too much to drink before or after an argument, a failed relationship.  It does not matter how or when but somehow all those times of being reminded that there is something "wrong" with you all add up and you fall prey to repetitive moments of escape which become addiction or alcoholism according to popular theory.  But what are you really addicted to? Is it the substance or is it the feeling of freedom from the incessant cycle of pain and anger playing over and over in your mind?  Are you really just trying to feel better and going about it totally the wrong way?  The completely self-destructive way? WHAT IS RIGHT WITH YOU? Isn't that more important?

Our PURPOSE and stated MISSION is to assist you in putting an end to the vicious cycles that drive you to seek and require escape from yourself, others, and everything that you no longer love about yourself and your life. Every pain, every hurt, every long held anger at life and all that disappoints you and me every day.  It can all be processed and cleared for good in our sixty day program. That is our Plan. That is our Purpose. That is our Mission.   To send you home shining like the golden person you really are. That is all there is to it.

You are not broken and you do not need fixing.

Addiction Rehabilitation Information To Consider

The word drug rehabilitation is an umbrella term for the processes of medical and/or psycho therapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances. The general intent is to enable the patient to stop substance abuse, in order to avoid the psychological, legal, financial, social, and physical consequences that can be caused, especially by extreme abuse. Finding an effective drug rehab can be a difficult and confusing task. Here are some points to consider when looking for drug rehabs.

Drug rehabilitation tends to focus on the two fold nature of chemical dependency: psychological and physical dependency. Most drug rehabilitation facilities will have a drug detox program to treat withdraw symptoms that occur from regular drug use. This process can be dangerous depending on the drugs of choice, and drug rehabs must have a medical staff on board to medically manage this process. Withdraw symptoms occur because of the brains attempt to re-balance, this can last weeks or months depending on the person and drugs used.

The psychological dependence must be addressed in any drug rehabilitation program. The patient will learn new ways to interact in a drug free environment. One of the most important changes is to not associate with old drug using friends. 12 step programs can be extremely helpful in this process by examining and changing habits related to there addiction. Most drug rehab’s will have some introduction to this 12 step process and encourage involvement.

Some addiction recovery services use pharmacotherapy in addition to psychotherapy to combat addiction. Such medications as methadone and most recent Bupernorphine (Suboxone) are widely used to treat opiate dependence; these medications are used in either maintenance therapy or for short term drug detox. Other antidepressant medications are used to moderate drug use, and there are several anti craving medications as well. All can be helpful tools in a drug rehab facility.

There are many approaches to drug treatment and rehabilitation. There is the disease model of addiction where it is contended that there are maladaptive patterns of alcohol and substance use displayed by addicted individuals and is the result of a lifelong disease that is biological in nature and exacerbated by environmental factors. There is the client centered approach to therapeutic change, created by Carl Rogers. This approach centers on the fact that there are three necessary and sufficient conditions for personal change: unconditional positive regard, accurate empathy, and genuineness.

There is the psychoanalytic approach created by Sigmund Freud, which contends that the main cause of the addiction syndrome is the unconscious need to entertain and to enact various kinds of homosexual and perverse fantasies and at the same time to avoid taking responsibility for this. Then there are the cognitive models of drug rehabilitation.

These include relapse prevention and Cognitive therapy of substance abuse. These approaches focus mainly at examining the core beliefs and the thinking of the addicted person. Its aim is to make the client aware of discrepancies that may exist and disputing them. Also taking a look at high risk situations and relapse triggers that may contribute to drug use.