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Unfortunately, there are no long-term cures for addiction, but it is possible to learn how to live with it gracefully, in serenity and peace..

Addiction treatment and 12 step recovery services of MKF

(for a more detailed description please click on link below "MKF treatment processes and related outcome studies")

For voluntary and family ordered clients, our treatment programs are tailor-made to suit the recovery needs of the client as determined at assessment / interview stage of the intake process.

For those who are court ordered, R.A.9165 or the Philippine Drug Law mandates a minimum of 6 months confinement to 1 year with an aftercare program.

MARARAHAY KA TREATMENT FACILITY (MKF) IS AN OFFSHOOT OF Life Management Foundation, Inc. (LMFI) which was established in 1993 by Pablo Araneta, Gary L. Yupangco and Clemente Abella Jr. It was the only private, 12-step outpatient drug and alcohol treatment facility in the Philippines that is accredited by the Dangerous Drug Board (DDB) of the Philippines. The facility provides a family-based, spiritually oriented rehabilitation program. The program focuses not only on the recovery of the addicts but their families as well. The addicts and their co-dependents are encouraged to attend therapy sessions where they learn, share and enhance the quality of both their dependent's and their own lives.

MKF is lead by the Junjun Abella M.A.C.., LMFI's counseling consultant and former Program Director. He has a Masters degree in counseling psychology from De La Salle University where he also received the gold medal for outstanding thesis. He himself is a recovering addict whose intimate experience with addiction itself combined with the professional counselor training he received plus his treatment experience at LMFI are definite advantages the clients of MKF and LMFI benefit from.

His treatment team at LMFI facilitated the recovery of over 300 families in 12 years. MKF and LMFI hopes to achieve that and more by adding to its very successful outpatient program, a residential and outpatient component in Baguio. The leisurely life pace provides an atmosphere nurturing to recovery. The client is not so exposed to city life stress nor consigned to the boondocks but can enjoy the advantages of Baguio's attractions like the cool climate, and nature while staying close to cosmopolitan living. The client learns serenity amidst the daily stress of living without the need to cope by using drugs or alcohol.

Clients from manila who opt for a residential program will have a chance as part of their treatment to stay in Baguio City to complete some requirements which will further enrich their recovery and mix with their Baguio brothers as well. The local Baguio clients will also get a chance to go to Makati to mix and meet with community of recovery in the city.

MKF's goal is not only to lead the addicts/alcoholics to the road of recovery but to even train them in becoming addiction counselors as well. MKF also intends to galvanize recovery in Baguio City by initiating a community of recovery as an alternative to the drugging lifestyle of the active addicts there. The task of helping others as a way to maintain their own newly found recoveries through the 12-step program originally taken from Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Likewise, the originators of LIFE believe in the concept of a facility center where clients are not confined from the "real world"; rather they are faced with their choices each day. The management and treatment team believes that natural triggers must be allowed to face the addict/alcoholic. This is so he/she can be made aware of the persons, places and events that create urges for him/her to pick up that first drink or to "score" and use that first hit. Unless those triggers are allowed to crop up naturally, the addict/alcoholic will never know the triggers or how to deal with them in sobriety. He is also trained to live life from a spiritual posture or in the context of internal locus of control. Moreover, MKF believes that this facility is easily replicated wherein barangays and city town halls can be encouraged to duplicate in their own places as a drug and alcohol awareness program. Treatment centers only require a certain locale or place where meetings, seminars and therapies are held .

OUR PRESENCE ASSURES QUALITY TREATMENT & RECOVERY SERVICES FOR THE AFFLICTED IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT CHERISHES PERSONAL DIGNITY AND OUR NATURAL ABILITY TO CHANGE.

MKF's continues with this vision of facilitating positive change in the families afflicted with addiction in the environs of Baguio

From this vision and mission, LMFI's management, together with its graduates, now MKF hopes to carry on their message of recovery to others who once were like themselves. In the country today, more and more families with drug and alcohol dependents are coming to the realization that they are powerless over the addiction that is controlling the lives of their loved ones. Unlike in the past, families are now slowly seeing the "addict" as someone who is sick and not as someone who is morally wrong or someone who is bad. Families are now actively seeking a treatment facility that can help them with their problem. Others desperately try and find assistance through facilities like LMFI and MKF to avoid having their addicts incarcerated or put to jail. Moreover, the country itself is facing the real need for addiction counselors, trained and competent in teaching the 12-step program of the Alcoholics Anonymous ( A.A.), now considered the accepted and proper approach for government-funded substance abuse treatment programs. It has produced documented recoveries from drug addiction and alcoholism and has been adapted for over-eaters, gamblers, victims of compulsive sexual excess and a number of other behavioral problems.

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Michigan Alcohol Screening Test



			Yes		No
	1	Do you feel you are a normal drinker/user? (if patient denies
		any use of alcohol/drugs, check here )				(2)

	2	Have you ever awakened the morning after some drinking/
		using the night before and found you could not remember
		a part of the evening before?		(2)

	3	Does any family member or significant other ever worry
		or complain about your drinking/using?		(1)

	4	Can you stop drinking/using without a struggle after one or
		two drinks or one or two uses?				(2)

	5	Do you ever feel bad about your drinking/using?		(1)

	6	Do friends or relatives think you are a normal drinker/user?				(2)

	7	Do you ever try to limit your drinking/using to certain times
		of the day or to certain places?		(0)

	8	Are you always able to stop drinking/using when you want to?				(2)

	9	Have you ever attended a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous or
		Narcotics anonymous?		(5)

	10	Have you gotten into fights when drinking/using?		(1)

	11	Has drinking/using ever created problems with you and
		your significant other?		(2)

	12	Has any family member or significant other ever gone to anyone
		for help about your drinking or using?		(2)

	13	Have you ever lost friends or girlfriends/boyfriends because of
		drinking/using?		(2)

	14	Have you ever gotten into trouble at school because of
		drinking/using?		(2)

	15	Have you ever lost a job because of drinking/using?		(2)

	16	Have you ever neglected your obligations, your family, or
		school for 2 or more days in a row because you were
		drinking/using?		(2)

	17	Do you ever drink/use before noon?		(1)

	18	Have you ever been told you have a liver trouble? Cirrhosis?		(2)

**	19	Have you ever had delirium tremens ( D.T,'s) severe shaking,
		heard voices, or seen things that were not there after heavy
		drinking/using?		(2)


			Yes		No

	20	Have you ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking/using?		(5)

	21	Have you ever been hospitalized because of drinking/using?		(5)

	22	Have you ever been a patient in a psychiatric hospital or on a
		psychiatric ward of a general hospital where drinking/using was
		part of the problem?		(2)
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Is an addict a bad person that needs to be good or a sick person that needs to get well

Addiction treatment and 12 step recovery services of MKF

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Michigan Alcohol Screening Test