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Contact
Duane T. Bowers, LPC, CCHt, pllc
200 Park Ave,
Suite 304
Falls Church, VA 22046
1629 K St. NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC
20006
Phone:
(202) 236-5452
Fax: (800) 934-9736
E-mail and press inquiries:
info@duanetbowers.com |
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Addiction
Duane’s experience in addiction treatment includes serving as the director of a 60-bed, year-long residential drug and alcohol treatment program, and running intensive out-patient and after-care groups. He now sees individual clients who are simultaneously participating in a treatment program or 12-step group, many of whom are participating as required by the judicial system.
Duane understands that addiction to drugs and alcohol is very often related to trauma, grief, or other mental health disorders. Drugs and alcohol are one way to self medicate the symptoms or pain of an event or untreated issue. And, honestly, drugs and alcohol do a very good job treating those symptoms. Life happens, however, which inevitably means the individual will experience another trauma, loss, or mental health issue, at which point the drugs and alcohol don’t work as well, and things start to fall apart. This is when the individual either chooses to, or is coerced to, seek treatment.
Treatment for addiction to drugs and alcohol must, for many people, therefore be done in association with therapy for the original trauma, loss or mental health issue. Attempts to recover from addiction without addressing the underlying cause often results in relapse. Duane, a recovering alcoholic of nearly 30 years himself, works with the client to resolve the issues beneath the addiction while supporting their recovery.
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