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Cunab Medical Advances:
Beating Addiction
By: Agnerys Sotolongo | Photos: Prensa Latina & Cubanacan
A person can be victimized by their addictions but with professional help, they can escape the dark place they find themselves in.
Among the multiple programs offered by the company Cubanacán Tourism and Health are those to treat addictions. Several centres provide services for the rehabilitation of patients with alcohol, psychoactive, and drug addictions. With more than 15 years of experience, these institutions provide professional and specialized care with excellent therapies and comfortable conditions for their patients and their relatives. There are three main institutions of this type in Cuba and they are located around the eastern region of the island. Villa El Quinqué and Villa El Cocal are in the province of Holguín and El Colibrí is in Santiago de Cuba.
A Therapeutic Community
Those are the words which define the health care model offered in these centres explains Dr. Jorge Luis Perera Horta, head of business development at Cubanacán's Commercial Division and a psychiatric specialist. The system's aim is the complete recovery of the individual. Drug and other addictions are considered to be abnormal human behaviours that do not only affect the health of the patient. They also influence their social circumstances, their familial and work relations, and the community at large. That is why the treatment was developed as a multi-faceted approach with the complete recovery as its ultimate goal. This type of care utilizing a therapeutic community fosters the coexistence, exchange, and interaction between the people undergoing treatment. This allows for
A person can be victimized by their addictions but with professional help, they can escape the dark place they find themselves in. 
professional and specialized care with excellent therapies and comfortable conditions for their patients and their relatives. There are three main institutions of this type in Cuba and they are located around the eastern region of the island. Villa El Quinqué and Villa El Cocal are in the province of Holguín and El Colibrí is in Santiago de Cuba. 
at Cubanacán's Commercial Division and a psychiatric specialist. The system's aim is the complete recovery of the individual. Drug and other addictions are considered to be abnormal human behaviours that do not only affect the health of the patient. They also influence their social circumstances, their familial and work relations, and the community at large. That is why the treatment was developed as a multi-faceted approach with the complete recovery as its ultimate goal. This type of care utilizing a therapeutic community fosters the coexistence, exchange, and interaction between the people undergoing treatment. This allows for
