Drug Rehab in Georgia

Though you wouldn't know it by looking at the promotional pieces and t.v. spots which depict happy, smiling people, obviously with no problem in the world, drug rehab in Georgia is ineffective, remarkably ineffective.

I heard once that fewer than 1 in 7 addicts remain drug free after going to rehab. It was such a low figure that frankly, I thought it untrue, an exaggeration in reverse. I changed my mind, after speaking last year to a Scottish woman whose daughter was hooked on heroin, her life in a shambles.

Bonnie called me for a referral to a drug treatment center; I helped her niece find one a couple of years ago. Her niece not only beat her addiction, she flourished. Bonnie wanted the same for her troubled child.

I asked her if she had called anyone yet and if so, what results she had been promised. No explicit assurances were made, but both Centers advised her that about 10% of their patients permanently quit taking drugs. I was stunned. Georgia's drug treatment centers appear to offer little rehab, remarkably little rehab. All the more reason that one use a professional referral service to identify the best place for drug addiction treatment.

Fritz Alders