What are the recommended treatments for a person with alcoholism and drug problem at the same time?
Question by Mill Boon: What are the recommended treatments for a person with alcoholism and drug problem at the same time?
Substance abuse is a big problem nowadays. Many people have seek for various kinds of early intervention in order to be treated. I would just like to know, if going to a rehabilitation center is the right thing to do for a person with these addiction problems.
Best answer:
Answer by PJ
Addiction is addiction.
Also – the treatment people make money whether their treatment is effective or not. They don’t have to come up with a different plan for different addictions.
The court doesn’t care what kind of treatment you get – as long as you get treatment. Mostly rehab and treatment are ineffective.
What do you think? Answer below!
July 26th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Yes, I think rehabilitation centers are best!
You shouldn’t try to treat them yourself, you’ll probably end up getting hurt, and it might not even make a difference.
Also, people with addictions need to feel pressure to change, and a rehabilitation center would have that type of environment.
July 26th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
When you go to a rehabilitation center for drug and alcohol addiction, they usually recommend dual diagnosis treatment. This strategy is the only way to treat both drug and alcohol addictions simultaneously.
July 26th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
You should check out HBO.com – documentary on addiction it is very informative. I have been to a rehabilitation center, I know they help alot of people…but I found it created a cocoon that did not prepare me for readjusting back into the real world (may have been the counselors or center???). Regardless of how it is treated quality does vary in treatment programs as well as therapists.
July 26th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find treatment that is not 12-Step indoctrination, since that is what 95% of the offer. The rest are mostly scientology and Fundamentalist Christian.
Even more important, Step indoctrination has not been shown to be an effective treatment. As a matter of fact, in the words of Harvard psychiatrist George Vaillant,
“Not only had we failed to alter the natural history of alcoholism, but our death rate of three percent a year was appalling”
Vaillant not only is a Harvard psychiatrist but also was an AA board member and an Al-Anon. In the book the above quote is taken from, “Natural History of Alcoholism,” he went on to blame AA’s failure on the patients failure to believe and continued boasting that at least he got them to attend AA.
There are some medications that can be useful with desire to drink/drug but beyond that, almost all inpatient (as well as outpatient) treatment is conversion to the Step religion which was founded as part of the quasi-Christian, pro-Fascist Oxford Group in the 1930s.
More important are things like “Why is he drinking/drugging?” Sometimes things like depression or anxiety are at the root. Those have a much better change to be treated.
It is important not to forget that most people, in spite of what we’ve been getting told for decades, stop or moderate on their own.