Addiction Recovery Center

The ARC is an outpatient treatment program offering group, individual, couple and family therapy for addicts and their families.

Addiction: self-induced changes in neurotransmission that result in behavior problems.

Personal responsibility
Biochemical effects
Social reactions
- Milkman and Sunderwirth

AROUSAL ADDICTIONS:

Stimulant Drugs
Compulsive Gambling
Compulsive Sex
Compulsive Spending
Compulsive Gaming
Compulsive Working

DEPRIVATION ADDICTIONS:

Compulsive Underspending
Sexual Anorexia
Spiritual Anorexia
Compulsive Hoarding
Contradependence
Food Anorexia

FANTASY ADDICTIONS:

Marijuana
Psychedelic Drugs
Religion
Computer Games
Computer Relationships
Compulsive Sex

SATIATION ADDICTIONS:

Alcohol
Depressant Drugs
Compulsive Eating
Compulsive Sex
Compulsive TV
Codependence

Addicts are ...victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human will power could break it.
There is ... no such thing as the personal conquest of this compulsion by the unaided will.

- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

The ARC: offering A Way OUT of the bondage of addiction

Addiction Recover Center

Addiction Recovery Center
3880 S. Bascom #206
San Jose
California, 95124
phone (408) 491-9804
fax (408) 371-9193

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We are a faith-based program, but in keeping with the philosophy of the 12-Step programs, we honor each one's freedom to seek his or her own Higher Power. All are welcome.