Drug abuse drug treatment - Alcoholic Rehab

My early thinking was:

WHY NOT LET THE ALCOHOLIC or DRUG ABUSER GO TO JAIL AND DRY OUT AND SIT THERE AND PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES TO SOCIETY? After all they may hurt or kill someone next time.

 By saying that I was admitting "there is no cure"

But is this true? If you think of these people as having only a moral issue then you should see a difference between various cultures and different age groups. What I found in my ancestors to present day family was a pattern of drinkers and alcoholics and in the present families, also, the addition of drug abuse and in some cases drug addition with law being involved.

My observation, drug were not as accessible in the old generations and both were similar or the same process. If this is through then the must be some "genetic component" to the generational process. Is it possible there are two components to the disease a genetic and an environmental component?

The answer is YES----More to come.

Ernie in South Orange County

My Take on Alcohol Treatment, Drug Treatment, and Substance Abuse-#1

Looking for a rehab center for my son in 1998 ... this was the beginning of my journey, as the father of a meth user...

I was blown away by my lack of knowledge about substance abuse. I was looking for a treatment center and I found I had no idea what to look for ...

Now 10 years later I have found that Drug Treatment is not just abstinence it's a new way of life.

Drug Treatment and Alcohol Treatment are basically the same. The disease has two components:

* a genetic component in which the brain is mis-wired since birth
* an environmental component which may influence the expression of the disease.(This is no different than diabetes Type II.)

In my upcoming blogs I will discuss some of the criteria, such as, Detox, Dual diagnosis, co-occurring disease. What is drug treatment? What does alcohol treatment really mean?

Ernie in South Orange County