Desert Oasis Recovery

The ECP gives individuals tools and resources that they can use for their recovery long after they leave Desert Oasis in addition to the traditional treatment modalities. The aim of the program is to enhance the likelihood that a person will remain clean and sober throughout their life.

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fascinating new research coming out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that links alcoholism to genetic causes which furthers the case for vigilance and education.

Scientists find gene linked to alcoholism — UNC School of Medicine Tuesday, October 19, 2010 — The variant, in a gene called CYP2E1, is associated with a person’s response to alcohol. For the ten to twenty percent of people that possess this variant, those first few drinks leave them feeling more inebriated than the rest of the human population, who harbor a di