{"id":384930,"date":"2022-08-08T16:08:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=384930"},"modified":"2022-08-08T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:08:46","slug":"orthodox-priest-coordinating-addiction-treatment-centre-tens-of-thousands-have-passed-through-our-hands-80-success-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/orthodox-priest-coordinating-addiction-treatment-centre-tens-of-thousands-have-passed-through-our-hands-80-success-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox priest coordinating addiction treatment centre: Tens of thousands have passed through our hands. 80% success rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Father Liviu Burlacu, the coordinator of a centre for addiction therapy, explained in an interview how the lives of people affected by addiction could change for the better.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The residential centre &#8220;The Life-Giving Spring&#8221;, dedicated to treating alcohol and other drug addictions, has been operating in Bogdan Voda, Bacau, Romania, since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The centre was opened within the framework of the Socio-Medical Association &#8220;Siloam&#8221; at Tisa Silvestri Monastery of the Annunciation.<\/p>\n<p>It represented a culmination, as an upper stage of treatment\/therapy for alcohol and other drug addictions, of the activities already carried out within the &#8220;Life-Giving Spring&#8221; Day Centre of the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacau since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Around five daily therapy sessions with the centre&#8217;s specialists &#8211; psychologists, addictologists, psychiatrists &#8211; are scheduled for each beneficiary. After 7-8 weeks of stay, people leave as free people, able to face their demons and lead a different kind of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About 80 per cent is our success rate. People don&#8217;t relapse into addiction. And we&#8217;ve had thousands, tens of thousands of people pass through our hands since 2011. And with us, the rooms are always booked. We&#8217;re always full.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The requests are many, even from outside the [Bacau] county, because such centres are very few in Romania. About half of those admitted are alcoholics, about a quarter are drug addicts, and a quarter are addicted to drugs, food, or gambling,&#8221; Father Liviu Burlacu explained in the interview for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertatea.ro\/stiri\/reportaj-viata-si-patimile-unui-preot-care-a-invins-alcoolismul-iar-acum-ii-ajuta-pe-altii-sa-scape-de-demonii-din-pahar-eram-un-circar-cu-slujba-perfecta-predica-perfecta-dar-si-cu-bub-4214988\">Libertatea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of Facebook \/ Centrul Izvorul T\u0103m\u0103duirii Bac\u0103u<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasilicaNews\">@BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Liviu Burlacu, the coordinator of a centre for addiction therapy, explained in an interview how the lives of people affected by addiction could change for the better. The residential centre &#8220;The Life-Giving Spring&#8221;, dedicated to treating alcohol and other drug addictions, has been operating in Bogdan Voda, Bacau, Romania, since 2019. The centre was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":383523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34],"tags":[19094,25280],"class_list":["post-384930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","category-social-en","tag-addiction-therapy-centre","tag-addiction-treatment"],"better_featured_image":{"id":383523,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":2369,"height":1399,"file":"2022\/07\/Centru-tratare-dependente-BC.jpg","filesize":1057200,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Centru-tratare-dependente-BC-890x526.jpg","width":890,"height":526,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":135813,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Centru-tratare-dependente-BC-890x526.jpg"},"large":{"file":"Centru-tratare-dependente-BC-1024x605.jpg","width":1024,"height":605,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":172954,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Centru-tratare-dependente-BC-1024x605.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Centru-tratare-dependente-BC-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":39915,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Centru-tratare-dependente-BC-360x360.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"Centru-tratare-dependente-BC-1536x907.jpg","width":1536,"height":907,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":346500,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Centru-tratare-dependente-BC-1536x907.jpg"},"2048x2048":{"file":"Centru-tratare-dependente-BC-2048x1209.jpg","width":2048,"height":1209,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":555444,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Centru-tratare-dependente-BC-2048x1209.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"Picasa","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1659081200","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":384930,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Centru-tratare-dependente-BC.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384930\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=384930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384930\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383523\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=384930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=384930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=384930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}