Do you think drug and alcohol detox centre work?
I am interested in others views on this subject. I personally think that these centres have a great plan of action. The flaws are that grouping lots of codependent individuals with each other in a closed ‘big brother’ type environment is creating lots of ‘relationships’ between patients who pair off and enable each other to drink/do drugs again.
I am amazed at how people enter services to do the detox for their husband or wife and kids only to forget them in a few days and start a sexual relationship with another user.
What is your opinion on such services and do you have any better ideas?
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The service will only work if the person entering it wants to sober up.
Sure, physically they eliminate the drugs in the body but in life ”you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.”
Fighting addictions are all about self will and the desire for pure happiness. unless reality sinks in the person will not commit
these places will “work” only if the individuals WANT them to. Agreed, there is an inherent risk to grouping such as you suggest, but the bottom line is, there is no “perfect method”, and it is the individual group member who will determine their own success or failure.
Detox centers, A.A., N.A., Weight-watchers, and a few others, these all have something in common; they are a social gathering point for those of a weaker substance. The only problem seems to be that nobody is above the level of admission. The only way to help these people with dysfunctions is to look into the pathologies of their families. While that is being pursued allow at least two professional counselors be present. I speak from a history of being a A.A. member for several years until I introduced mental health counseling for the members and was told to keep quiet, psychology had no part in A.A. Its sad to realize all the efforts myself and others had put into a program such as A.A. was only lining another person’s pocketbook.