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How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do About It
by Joseph Califano, Jr.

High Society

Joseph Califano, Jr. describes his new book, High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do About It, as a "call to arms". Califano, Chairman and President of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, presents in devastating detail the many ways in which substance abuse infects all aspects of American society.

Many of the statistics he weaves into his argument are familiar. In their entirety, however, they paint the portrait of a nation drenched in alcohol and substance abuse.

     

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Finding Symptoms of Drug Abuse   
Cliffside Malibu

Recovery can only occur after addicts and their loved ones have recognized the symptoms of drug abuse for what they actually are. With that in mind, drug interventions are often vital precursors to the drug rehab process, especially insofar as they encourage addicts to seek addiction treatment for their compulsive drug habits.


The physically and psychologically overwhelming nature of drug dependency leaves drug addicts regrettably ill-equipped to conduct an honest and objective evaluation of their own behavior. Again, drug addiction is a disease, one whose physiological and emotional roots literally "infect" drug addicts. Drug addiction is "drug addiction" precisely because it strips addicts of the ability to relate to anything other than themselves and their drug habits: An addict is blind, really, in the sense that he can't see beyond his need to use drugs.

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What that means in practical terms is that very few drug addicts ever recognize the unhealthy symptoms of drug abuse in themselves. Quite the opposite, actually: Drug addicts often need to be told that they're drug addicts, by people they love, and people they trust. A successful drug intervention, in this sense, is one that pierces the veil of drug addiction, even prescription drug addiction, and admits enough light to show addicts themselves as they actually are.


Of course, a drug intervention is never an easy thing to be a part of. It's a traumatic experience, to say the least: traumatic for an addict, traumatic for the people confronting him with the fact of his drug addiction. But that trauma, we should note, is very often a vital part of the drug recovery process, and no drug rehab program can be effective if a patient hasn't made an active decision to want to get better. To the extent that drug interventions can help foment that wanting, they are nothing short of instrumental in the struggle for sobriety.

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Drug Treatment and Substance Abuse Recovery


Remember: No one beats addiction alone. Meaningful substance abuse recovery requires expert drug treatment, at a drug treatment center specially-equipped to meet your own individual needs. On the road to independent sober living, there's no more important way station that the right drug rehab center.


Again, for emphasis: Drug addiction is a clinical disease, with clinical causes and clinical treatment solutions. To say that a drug addict can get sober without admitting himself to a drug addiction treatment center is tantamount to saying a cancer patient can get healthy without seeking help at a hospital. That's not how diseases work, and that's not how sick people get better.


That said, we should note that the decision to enter a drug rehabilitation facility is often an exceedingly difficult one for addicts to make. Even a successful intervention can't change the fact of the thing: Entering a drug rehab center means admitting that you have a problem, and admitting that you, no matter how hard you try, aren't strong enough to fix it by yourself. Such vulnerability is hard to come by even under the most ideal of circumstances; in the twisted depths of drug addiction, it can be almost impossibly elusive.


But that doesn't mean it's anything short of essential to the drug recovery process. Getting better, simply stated, means finding a drug treatment center that's right for you: a drug treatment center that can help you get where you need to go, and provide you with the support you need along the way. The key to a successful search, of course, lies first and foremost in self-education, and in your ability to know both what you need and how a drug rehab program can provide it to you. With the stakes as high as they are, you can't afford to leave your addiction treatment experience in the hands of anyone who can't see you for what you really are.



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