The Road to Drug Rehab
October 26th, 2006 by Terry Keith
The journey to alcohol and drug rehab is varied and different for all clients. The war on drugs has been ineffective for the most part and it seems we are facing greater numbers of people in trouble than ever before. Where does it all start? If we put our education efforts in the beginning before people are well down the road of addiciton maybe we will have a greater impact. It seems alcohol, not drugs is the initial path most people start in. Alcohol use in the young may be the culprit that starts to journey to self destruction. It least that seems to be the opinion of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. It is their research that alcohol is causing more problems that drugs in the young. Read their imformation for yourself at www.ias.org.uk. Maybe by concentrating on alcohol use in the young, we will have less drug rehab to deal with later.
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October 27th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
The prevention of early alcohol abuse does not receive enough resources, you’re right.
But to suggest that the use of substances, be they alcohol or drugs, progresses along a defined ‘path’ is misleading. Most people experiencing problems with substances have had periods in their lives where it was not such a problem, and will again go through such periods.
There is no ‘inevitable progression’ from early alcohol use to drugs abuse in later life.
February 25th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Nobody shoots heroin the very first time they experience any mood altering substance. There is ALWAYS a progression