Getting an addict off drugs is trying. Why then make it harder by giving him legal, but addictive drugs once he's been taken off illegal substances? Yet that's exactly what many drug rehab in Georgia programs do. They prescribed powerful, mind altering psychiatric and other prescription drugs in therapy.
Now I’m not referring to drugs used in withdrawal. Often addicts will need medication to ease the nasty symptoms associated with this phase. I'm speaking about anti depressants, anti anxiety and other medications.
Prescribing addictive drugs to a drug addict reinforces his self destructive belief that he has to have drugs to confront and live life. Drugs create a physical and psychological dependence, and carry with them harmful side effects, as well.
Maybe these side effects by themselves wouldn't pose much of a problem for an addict, as long as he was free of his illegal substance addiction. But rehab progams that use drugs as part of therapy have very low success rates.
This then raises the dangerous possibility that an addict will be more addicted to drugs soon after leaving rehab. Good rehab, like a good life is drug free.
Fritz Alders
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