Lars Cattanese Interventionist

10/17/2024

Do you have a loved one suffering from substance abuse and refusing treatment ? This is what I do, getting people to see that treatment and sobriety is the only way forward. I have 15 years experience with all certifications . Free Consultation.
Please call 424-644-0022 to set a free phone consolation up.

04/26/2023

The leading Brain Mapping and Neurotherapy Treatment Center for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders / Addiction in California.

04/26/2023

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and addiction to drugs or alcohol are interconnected. At The V CAT Treatment Center , we understand these links and recognize that true healing can only begin when the individual diagnoses are identified and treated according to each client’s unique needs.

The leading Brain Mapping and Neurotherapy Treatment Center for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders / Addiction in California.

04/25/2023

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and addiction to drugs or alcohol are interconnected. At The V CAT Treatment Center , we understand these links and recognize that true healing can only begin when the individual diagnoses are identified and treated according to each client’s unique needs.

03/10/2023

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03/13/2022

03/10/2022

Did you know that addiction is classified in the DSM-5? It’s a mental illness that lives in the brain stem: the same brain stem that serves a critical role in regulating certain involuntary actions of the body, including heartbeat and breathing. Addicts feel that they need their drug of choice (DOC) the same way they feel they need to breathe.
Did you know that our society treats addiction as a moral issue and pawns it off on law enforcement to “control”? The average stay in jail being 365 days or less. Where addicts are left to detox alone ?
Did you know the detox process can be violent and result in death if not monitored by medical professionals?
Did you know the addict is many times released, and at that time, their serotonin levels are at their lowest, leading to a high crime rate and a higher chance in relapse. It’s a pun to say that this is criminal but that’s exactly what this really is ....criminal.
It takes an average of 14-16 months of sobriety for an addict’s brain to balance serotonin levels to that of a neuro-typical brain. Did you know that?
Did you know that most insurances will only pay for 30 days of treatment for an addict? Please get mad about that. I’m begging you ...get mad about that.
Did you know that 136 people die everyday from opioid overdose? That’s one person every 10.58 minutes. By the time you’re done reading and processing this post, someone will have died from an opioid overdose.
Someone’s child.
Someone’s spouse.
Someone’s parent.
Someone’s brother/sister.
Someone’s friend.
Someone’s aunt/uncle.
Let that sink in.
Did you know that the two biggest factors that “make” an addict are
(1) Genetic Predisposition and (2) Childhood trauma. There’s not that “one hit” or that “one decision” that will make an addict. You never really know who is or is not an addict before they ever even pick up. It’s NOT a moral problem. I repeat, addiction is NOT A MORAL PROBLEM.
Just for a minute let’s take this in a little bit of a different direction. Did you know that the BRCA gene for breast cancer has a 5-10% genetic predisposition rate? People every day undergo testing and life changing surgeries to avoid it but addiction genetic predisposition is over 50%.
O V E R 5 0 %. Let that sink in.
You still think addiction is a moral problem? A parenting problem?
Too bad there isn’t a surgery to remove addiction huh ?
If there’s one thing an addict would say….it’s that they’re still in there. (I know because I’ve asked.) The person that you knew and loved is still in there.
They are not their disease.
THEY ARE NOT THEIR DISEASE.
Addiction is a disease. Much like diabetes. It has to be monitored everyday. For the rest of their lives. And it’s HARD. It takes support and unrelenting diligence. Like cancer in that it can always reoccur.
The blaming needs to stop. We need to do better.
The paradigm needs to change.
Insurance benefits needs to change.
Public awareness needs to change.
Period.
The next time you hear someone say “ they have a choice “ or you hear others refer to addicts as “ a junkie“ start by educating them because that really is how this works.
You can make a difference you can change things. It starts with educating yourself and then spreading that knowledge one person at a time. Please I beg you join me in this.
Copied and pasted. Please do the same...
Be a part of the change! 💜💜
Message me if you or a loved one are struggling with substances. Anything. Alcohol, pills, m**h, he**in. I don't care. No judgment here!


Lars 310-621-6519 Free and confidential I

03/08/2022

Hope this helps any parent out there who struggles with a child or loved one suffering from substance abuse .

You can't make me clean, though I know it is what you want for me to be. But until I want it, I won't be. You can't love me clean, because until I learn to love myself, I won't be. I know you must wonder how I can learn to love myself when I am caught up in a life-style of self-hatred and self-destruction.

I can learn from my own experiences. I can learn from the things that happen to me along the path of my own mistakes. I can learn by being allowed to suffer the consequences of my choices. Life has a funny way of teaching us the lessons we need to learn.

I know it devastates you to watch me hurting myself. I know you want to jump in and save me. This helps ease your pain, but I don't think you understand just how damaging it is to me.

You see, although I look like and sound like your loved one, I am not. That person is in a self imposed prison way deep down inside of my being and what you see before you is an addict ruled and reigned by my addiction. The main focus of an addict is to feed the addiction. Every effort you put forth in the name of helping me falls prey to my addiction, giving the addiction more power to shackle me down a little more each time.
I feed my addiction enough. So please don't help me.

The only way for the real me to get free is to be free. FREE to fall as far down as I need to go in order to find the strength to fight and find my way back. To break free.

How can or will I ever be able to get clean you wonder ...
The same way I gave myself over to my addiction is the same way I can give myself over to my recovery. BY MYSELF.

By not enabling me you will be allowing me to reach "rock bottom". By trusting the process you can move over and allow me to find my own way back. You see, it is in the fight to get free that I will find myself. It is in the fight that I will learn to love myself and the more I love myself ... the more I will start to do to better myself, but I myself, must do this.

I am aware that when I use drugs , I am playing Russian roulette with my life. I know this, but that is a chance I take when I use. The addict in me is willing to take that chance in the name of getting high.

Rock bottom is but a circumstance away. I can't reach it because you are blocking me from it.
I know you love me and you only want what’s best for me ... but that very love keeps you blind sighted to just what truly is best, causing you to act out of fear and from your emotions.

Please for my sake let me go and move out of the way. Let me fall as far down as my addiction is going to take me ... as far down as I have to; to reach rock bottom. Don't try to cushion the fall. Just believe in me and trust the process. Pray for me that when I do hit ... it is not with the impact that leaves me for dead (I know that is your greatest fear), but if it comes to that, be sure to tell my story so that others might learn from my mistakes and live.
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02/23/2022

If you or a love one is suffering from Substance abuse, Mental health Issues, or traumatic brain injury with substance abuse which we specialize in... we can help., Our team of trained professionals all have over 20 years experience. Nobody should have to break the bank to have a professional intervention done. We have a 99% success rate in getting our people to agree to get treatment. We also work with a small, but highly clinical group of doctor owned and doctor operated facilities that specialize in Neuroscience and Science and evidence based modalities if you should need one. We can even get partial scholarships if you qualify.
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