Archive for November, 2007
Our experience with substance abuse
Author: Suki
My son had a horrible substance abuse problem. My husband and I were wildly desperate to try to help/save our son and get him into substance abuse treatment. He was in a breath-taking downward spiral and we felt that his next steps could well be hospitalization, law-breaking, jail or death. We all were lucky enough to find a phenomenal luxury residential addiction treatment facility in Malibu, CA.. You advised us that this substance abuse treatment center could be the best treatment center for our son.
I now like to say that we all experienced an intervention of the 21st century. We just returned from the Family Program and are forever changed by the program. We now feel that we finally ‘get it.’ Not only do we have a better understanding of what our son is experiencing but we learned so much more about ourselves and how we relate to both of our sons. Our son stayed for the 28 day program and has continued with the extended care program.
We will always be grateful for the experience of working with you. It changed all of our lives for the better.
read comments (0)Focus on the need for drug treatment
Author: Suki
I think that ideally we should divert a massive influx of dollars into both drug treatment programs and drug addiction treatment research, but since I don’t think that this is likely to occur lacking enormous political will; we should instead concentrate on increasing spending into addictions research. We need to develop better pharmacological and treatment interventions, and once we do have something more concrete to offer, something that does increase the recovery rates per individual drug treatment center visit, then I feel that the political motivation to fund needed drug abuse treatment programming will materialize.
So get out the pen and paper, and if you’ve been touched by addiction either yourself or through the pains of a loved one, empathize with those that still need help, and let your State and Federal elected officials know that the funding of drug treatment centers research is important to you.
How many more billions are spent in the development of hair loss, and erectile dysfunction medications than in all addictions research combined? Not that government funded Viagra trials…but still, it’s funny how our priorities can get so distorted.