Tekuma Recovery introduces a uniquely effective program for addicts who have a history of multiple relapses and who recognize that an international drug addiction program will distance the addict from the familiar people, places, and things their have maintained their disease. But Tekuma does not offer a Club Med-like facility with attendant familiar amenities such as pool, golf and tennis courses and cuisine insulated from the culture around them.  Rather the facility is completely enmeshed in its Israeli host. It is in fact the Israeli culture itself that serves as a critical part of the therapeutic effect, and not just the fact of living at a great distance from the triggers at home.  The international drug addiction program will be activated in a community and in a culture at first largely unfamiliar to the participants.  The absence of familiar people, places, things, food, and especially language will increase the likelihood that the addict will achieve lasting sobriety. Tekuma Recovery does not just offer a twelve-step drug addiction program.  Many of the applicants to Tekuma are already well versed in the steps.  For those participants who have little knowledge of twelve step programs, adequate introduction to the steps will also be found in the Israeli protocol. But the twelve-step drug addiction program in Israel is significantly different from others since the steps are experienced while living with recovering Israeli and American addicts in a therapeutic Kibbutz-like community.  In this unique community, an atmosphere of positive mutual dependence and respect in turn fosters self-reliance and self-respect. Central to Tekuma’s treatment philosophy is the concept that language is frequently used by addicts for the sake of gamesmanship and maintenance of self-destructive addictive behaviors.  Addicts are typically skilled narrators whose fluency in their mother tongue creates the illusion of change.   Addicts who mutually narrate their “war stories” maintain each other’s addiction. In Israel, the Hebrew language, at first largely unfamiliar to the non-Hebrew speaking addict, will force a struggle with new words and meanings.  The factors outlined in the basics of any 12-step drug addiction program are highlighted in this unique Israeli community and generates the necessary interpersonal imbalance that leads to lasting change.