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?

Many people who find themselves in the grips of a serious dependency on alcohol or drugs enter a drug and alcohol treatment centre to be rehabilitated and treated for addiction without understanding the full measure of the delicate procedure in such a treatment centre.

When a person reaches a stage in their life when their daily responsibilities are impossible to uphold without drugs or alcohol, or they have no life left because of drugs or alcohol, this is the time to seek treatment for their substance problem. Addiction is a cunning illness which sees sufferers lose their families, careers, houses, friends and self respect and will ultimately kill them if they do not become rehabilitated, whether by jails or institutions.

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