Drug Treatment
In today’s world, the medical definition for ‘treatment’ often includes a prescription. This has crossed over to the field of addiction treatment in recent years, therefore creating a point where the terms treatment and rehabilitation are not necessarily interchangeable.
The list of drugs prescribed now days in an attempt to treat addicts is longer than the list of addictive substances people are seeking help for, and even more are being tested each year. There are drug manufacturers salivating with huge zombie-like dollar signs in their eyes at the thought of developing a drug that could effectively treat addiction. The problem is, nobody has ever developed a drug that could rehabilitation an individual - it’s not possible. If you could take a pill and be “all better” then you wouldn’t be reading this right now. In fact, the whole reason for this site would be non-existent.
The endless chain of misrepresentation in the opioid category is a prime example. Through the ages the medical community has tried to announce that the next great drug to cure that particular opiate addiciton is - another opiate. Thus you have opium, morphine, heroin, methadone, buprenorphine. It also goes for other drugs for various categories for addiction. Anti-alcoholism pills, antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs and anti-psychotics, etc.
Before you go subjecting yourself or a loved one to a longer period of heartache brought on by a false sense of hope presented by the latest billion-dollar drug, call us to find real help in the name of long-term, drug-free rehabilitation of the whole individual.
