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TRIAD Treatment Center, located in San Juan Capistrano, CA, is the only authorized provider in the Western United States for the “NeuroTransmission Restoration System” (NTR™ ). NTR™ provides the alcoholic and addict a “Jump Start into Recovery”.

This exciting treatment for addictions of all kinds is comprised of naturally-occurring amino acids, minerals, and buffers, and is given intravenously over a contiguous 10-day period in a convenient outpatient, physician’s office setting. It works for alcohol, stimulants (cocaine, methamphetamine), opiates (heroin, Oxycontin, Vicodin, others), benzodiazepines (valium, xanax, ativan, others), marijuana, hallucinagens (LSD, PCP, mescaline, others) and most any other drug of abuse.
NTR™ results in:

* Decreased or eliminated drug cravings

* Speedier return of normal brain function following cessation of drugs

* Markedly less unpleasant detox (drug elimination) phase
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Prior to the development of the NTR™ System, there were no medical approaches for the treatment of addiction that really worked. NTR™ creates a nutritional environment in the drug-altered brain that causes the brain cells to shift into the so-called “repair phase”. During this rare cycle in a cell’s life, the cells shift their efforts to repairing altered or “damaged” cell components, including cell-surface neurotransmitter receptor complexes.

The result is a much faster (10 days or so) return of the drug-altered brain back towards normal. Without NTR™, these changes towards normal, healthy functioning take weeks, months, and even years to occur, if at all. Often, some damage remains, especially in the case of methamphetamine.

NTR™ is a truly revolutionary development in drug addiction treatment. Previously, the most effective approach to drug and alcohol addiction treatment was the 12-Step approach, as is embodied in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), and other similar processes. Even then, sobriety rates after one year of treatment are only in the region of 20% at best. With NTR™, one-year continuous sobriety rates of up to 70% have been seen.

NTR™ was developed by Dr. William Hitt,. a PhD bench scientist and who subsequently became a physician, as well. His early work in the laboratory was with tissue cultures. Back in the early 1980’s he noted that certain cell and tissue culture nutrient environments caused the cells to dramatically shift into the “repair phase”, where they focused all efforts on fixing damaged cellular machinery and parts. After a painstaking series of experiments to determine the optimal nutrient environments for this, he devised what we know today is the NTR™ System.

Dr. Hitt’s early clinical work involved the treatment of over 10,000 chronic alcoholics, all of whom he treated with his NTR™ System, and with an astonishing success rate of 70% continuous abstinence after one year.

The TRIAD Treatment Center opened at its current location in January of 2006 under the original name “Pure Life Medical Center”. The name was changed in June of 2006 to the current TRIAD Treatment Center to better reflect the fact that addiction is a three-part disease: Medical, Emotional, and Spiritual. NTR™ is the first truly effective medical/nutritional treatment that addresses the medical and physiological aspects of the disease of addition.

NTR™ is NOT a cure-all. Rather, it is a highly-effective “Jump Start into Recovery”. It provides the newly-recovering alcoholic and addict with the clarity of mind to much more effectively participate in group work and other rehab activities. The early process is also much less miserable, in particular the detox phase. Cravings are a thing of the past. This alone is a miracle, as any recovering alcoholic or drug addict will quickly tell you.

TRIAD strongly advocates that all of its patients also undergo traditional rehab treatment (either inpatient or outpatient, as appropriate), as well as to participate regularly in 12-Step meetings, including having a sponsor and using that sponsor.

In coming months we will be incorporating initial addiction education and early rehab experiences, and will facilitate our patients’ obtaining the additional aspects of treatment that would be best for each.