There's no shortage of costly drug rehab in Georgia, just a shortage of results. Nearly 6 in 7 patients will fail their rehab despite being attended to by a posse of "professionals" from medical doctors to psychiatrists. In fact, higher priced programs often produce the poorest results.
Top drawer, luxury priced institutions staffed by highly trained and highly paid medical personnel and bad is the best they can do? What explains this conundrum? The answer involves both perception and perspective. Doctors perceive that addiction is an illness. They're taught that most bad conditions are caused by pathogens. From their perspective then the best treatment practice is evident. Pharmaceutical intervention.
But if taking drugs lead to the problem, can taking them be the cure? Hardly. In fact, it's not just counter-intuitive. It's just plain wrong. An addict needs to quit, detox and rehab without assaulting his body and mind with more chemicals.
Expensive programs are costly because of high priced medical personnel. But their biggest cost is one of lost opportunity. Based on a disease model, their programs are failures. The lost opportunity is an unbearable cost for the addict and his loved ones.
Fritz Alders
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