At least, we need a lot more access to drug rehab. I have been on the road for 5 weeks now. In the past few months I’ve seen a lot of this country. This country is beautiful, friendly and varied. However one thing is clear. Drug and alcohol abuse is everywhere. From the smallest and most religious town to the most cosmopolitan of cities, lives are being destroyed by drug abuse. Billboards exhorting people to live drug free lives are everywhere. When you look deeper and more carefully though you see people “falling through the cracks” in every town.

I’ve been wearing a t-shirt with the slogan “rehab is for quitters” on the front of it. Most people take it as a joke against stopping drugs and alcohol. People have even come up and told me about their failed rehab experiences. What it clear is there is not enough rehab centers available at a cost people can afford, and what is available is too short term. Everyone I talked to had been to a 28 day program. That is just not long enough and leads to relapse and an entrenched view that the client cannot change. This is a great country. People deserve options to move past a lifestyle that will destoy them and those around them. Rehab is for quitters, and we need a lot more quitters to turn the drug abuse tide.

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