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@joz*garage wrote:

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@gleee58 wrote:

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@joz*garage wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@joz*garage wrote:

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@*pepe wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

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@*pepe wrote:

probably create treatment programs that the addicts won't ever bother to use to help themselves.

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The injecting room gets used doesn't it?

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that isn't a treatment program

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yes im wondering what sort of rehab treatment program treats the patient with the dog that bit them

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Methadone.

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that is not a rehab program

 

it is an alternative to using illegal heroin. it just holds them

 

more for society than the individual.. to get them off the streets doing illegal activities.. of course this is vicious cycle, its worse get clean from methadone, and boy have i seen the effects of it! and even though theyre on a meth program the desire to use heroin is still so strong, they'll still go out and score

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That is because there is no rehab program offered with methadone for the most part.  

 

For those with some rehab and a reducing dose of methadone there has been far greater success.  But you don't hear about that because ex addicts don't make the news for giving up and getting on with life.

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the people ive witnessed whom succeeded in beating the evils of hard drug use, concentrated on doing rehab. i am an example of that.

 

although what you say is possible, do you actually know of some people whom did it that way?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I know some people who did it that way.  I have seen some very good methadone results when there has been a program not just a line up for the dose and see ya later.  I fail to see how anyone expects a good result at the fast stop methadone dispensing spots where you end up with dozens of addicts looking at each other wondering what to do with the day.  A decent program gets addicts into looking to the future after the addiction and formulating a plan of some sort to get there.  

The programs I observed taking that approach had greater success than live in rehabs which are ususally located in the sticks and keep people contained with a bunch of addicts.  They bear no resemeblance to the real world and most people I know used the rehab merry go round almost as a social life.  The best at the program were those who were most practiced at the program. 

I don't buy the idea that once an addict always an addict and I don't buy into the one drink/hit/toke equals an all is lost instant re-addiction (so let's all party hard and rehab again another day).