St Gregory Retreat Center

St. Gregory Retreat Center offers a program of behavior modification skills to those with drug, drinking, or substance abuse problems. Detoxification is coordinated with the St. Gregory team prior to arrival so that this 8-week experience is strictly devoted towards improving life qualities. This Des Moines, Iowa drug and alcohol program does not use the traditional 12-step processes or theories.

In most traditional 12-step alcohol or drug rehabilitation plans members are taught that their addiction is a disease that must be cured through group meetings and actions that will please family, friends, or others. The St. Gregory plan helps the addict to understand how to be self-sufficient and proud of their own accomplishments or skills. St. Gregory’s teaches the individual how to be happy and productive without substance abuse.

At the St. Gregory Retreat Center, the art of happiness is promoted through counseling, workshops, exercising, and activities that are designed to help members understand how their life is structured and what must be changed to create a happy and meaningful life that is not being directed by the pursuit of false enjoyments. Example: If drinking is done to make a person happy, then something else might produce a higher happiness.

The Better Business Bureau gives St. Gregory Retreat Center an A- rating. This rating is used with a minus sign due to the length of time that this establishment has been in business. To date, this retreat center does not have any complaints on record or people making any unhappy comments on the Internet. Users appear to hold this drug and alcohol plan in a place of very high respect.

Costs at the St. Gregory Retreat Center are for an 8-week stay. A 3,000 dollar reservation fee is needed as a down payment and special offerings are made for transportation costs and all other necessities so that the clients are only responsible for personal toiletry items after their arrival. The St. Gregory Retreat Center has a list of qualified doctors recommending this program on their Web site, and their Internet pages have thought provoking reading that may appeal to some who are searching for an addiction program.

Author: B. Shaw