I’m Dr Terry Sellers. My journey through recover began many years ago. I started my career as an OBGYN. At one point I was delivering more babies than any other doctor in the state of Utah. And by more I mean double what other OB’s were doing. I say that because the work load was breaking me. I started getting excruciating migraine headaches. One day I gave myself morphine in my desperate attempt to relieve the pain as I worked. Well, you can guess what that turned into. I spiraled like every addict does. I was self medicating and hiding it. I was lying and trying to keep track of all those lies so that my family, collogues and patients didn’t discover the hell I was in. For a decade I tried to quit on my own. Of course I failed over and over. Until one day when I got busted. The DEA came to my home to investigate a forged prescription. That was the worst and most important day of my life.

I’m currently 23 years sober and licensed for 18 years as a board certified addiction medicine physician. For nearly 20 years I have had the honor of helping others out of the addiction nightmare they are in. However, the past several years I have grown increasingly frustrated with the entire recovery industry. The success rates for addicts are too low. So what does the industry do? They just keep accepting insurance again and again admitting the same person to go through the same process that failed before. The person relapses, often within 2 weeks of release, and the onus is on the addict for failing again. Recently I had a patient come to me for the first time but he was trying to be admitted to inpatient care for the nineteenth time. The facility wanted to admit him because his insurance pays well. That patient needs a new strategy, not his nineteenth time doing what failed the past eighteen times. When is the point that the industry says, “We need to wake up and see these patients succeed with less attempts at recovery and more methods for lasting sobriety?”

I’m Gina Eady. I’m the proud cofounder of Detox1Global. When Dr. Sellers recounts his days as an OBGYN I think of those times with a thankful heart because 3 of those babies he delivered were my babies. His practice was buzzing with excitement and anticipation as new moms were ready to welcome little humans into the world. He was an incredible OB and made each of us feel like the most important person in his practice. When Dr. Sellers lost his license because of his addiction, I was heart broken. Little did I know at the time that his new license would save one of my sons’ lives years later. I’m not a recovering addict but I have a son who is. My interest in this industry comes from being a mother watching her son suffer from the overwhelming disease of addiction. With over 27 years building successful companies, and an MBA degree, I decided to join my experience with Dr. Sellers and do what the treatment industry should have done long ago if they cared more about their patients.

Detox1Global aims to treat our clients just one time. The key to our “one treatment episode” ideology is the method and the mindset that we employ. First, we have eliminated insurance. Initially that might seem like it would hurt the client but it’s the opposite. Insurance has over taken the industry. What insurance will and won’t cover dictates how a client is treated. We want full autonomy to tailor a recovery plan for our clients without the dictations from insurance companies. In addition, our clients are desperate for discretion and insurance leaves a trail that exposes professionals to the risk of reputational damage.

Next, we don’t have a treatment facility. We have watched the failings of inpatient care for too long. When a client is ripped from the environment where the disease lives, then put together in isolation with others with the same challenges, then thrown back into their lives 30 to 60 days later, it is more times than not, a recipe for relapse. This is why the relapse rate is 87% within the first year of leaving inpatient care, and 65% of those happen within the first 2 weeks of leaving treatment. In addition, going away to a facility puts reputations, careers, and corporations at risk because of the public exposure required. Without a physical facility we can help clients anywhere in the world, we can be assured they will avoid the relapse inducing jolt back into real life that accompanies traditional inpatient care, and protect their privacy at the same time.

Another method that sets us apart is our commitment to supporting our clients into what is called neuro-recovery period. The brain can and does recover. It does rewire and become healthier. But research shows that it takes at least 6 months to get to that important period. Until the brain is rewired for healthier choices, how can a client be successful on their own? The chances are slim. And the relapse rates reflect it. Obviously, no one is staying in a facility for 6 months in order to get to neuro-recovery. Of course there are “steps” and concepts that people can employ to help them remain sober. But people need close coaching and support as their brain repairs until rewiring reaches the point that the brain can function effectively around sobriety.

We walk side by side with our clients through those difficult portions of the path to neuro-recovery, while inpatient programs abandon clients after 30 days. Do people get healthy in 30 days after years and years of neuro damage? No. They don’t. We need at least 6 months to make sure our clients are positioned to truly heal. The way to do that is through a mastery framework that nurtures clients realistically and sustainably over an extended period of time. We deliver exceptional, intimate, one-on-one mentorship throughout our entire six-month neuro-recovery protocol.

And finally, changing our clients’ mindset around addiction and recovery is paramount for success. We believe that one gets healthy when they sincerely hold a mental view of themselves as a strong and healthy individual. Many in the recovery industry are upset when we boldly say that we don’t encourage AA or NA meetings. If a client wants to incorporate the practice we will support them. But we don’t encourage and certainly don’t require it. We believe that setting your identity as someone who is “always an addict” is a mindset that supports “dis-ease.” Imagine someone recovering from cancer regularly telling themselves that they will always have cancer no matter how much treatment or time that passes without symptoms. We would never handle other diseases in this way. Addiction follows the disease model and therefore individuals deserve to hold a mindset that they can be free of this torture as well. Adopting the disease as an identity works against the well being of our the individual. Every human contemplates working toward a healthier lifestyle, and those suffering from addiction are no different.

It’s a privilege to stand beside those committed to getting healthy. At Detox1Global we are proud to shepherd our clients one by one as they become the best version of themselves.