Sometimes people end up with a drug and alcohol problem because of a series of bad choices. They chose to use drugs recreationally at first and progress through several steps to more a more problematic behavior. Other times the start of a drug problem is something far more random. A car accicdent or a bad sports injury leading to chronic back pain or some other long term severe pain. We don’t have a lot of choices when it comes to severe pain. Most of the drugs that are effective come with a rather large addictive potential. They also build up tolerance and become less and less effective against the pain.

This leads to the choice of increasing the dosage and increasing the addictive risk, or being in so much pain so have to effectively have a very low quality of life. When the injury actually does resolve itself, months or even years later, the person may have a large drug problem that is just as difficult to deal with as any other. We need to find better ways of managing pain, however, we also need to realize sometimes clients do end up ion rehab through no fault of their own.

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