http://www.bloggernews.net/19611 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:36:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/19611#comment-354714 lakelife Mon, 26 May 2008 20:37:03 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19611#comment-354714 I agree that addiction is not a disease. Having worked in the rehabilitation field for many years I subscribe to the premise that one is resonsible for their own condition. Having said that one is still faced with the problem of assisting the individual put an end to the addiction without substituting new drugs or addictions in the place of the original. In my view the key to addiction recovery is in assisting the individual first with withdrawal and then full detoxification, but also in assisting them with the social and life skills that will allow them to live a drug free productive live. One can blame others, rant and rave, or even ignore the problem without opening the door to any real solutions. www.stopaddiction.com is a website I use and refer to quite often in order to embrace a truly humanitarian approach to first understanding addiction and then finding workable lifelong solutions I agree that addiction is not a disease. Having worked in the rehabilitation field for many years I subscribe to the premise that one is resonsible for their own condition. Having said that one is still faced with the problem of assisting the individual put an end to the addiction without substituting new drugs or addictions in the place of the original. In my view the key to addiction recovery is in assisting the individual first with withdrawal and then full detoxification, but also in assisting them with the social and life skills that will allow them to live a drug free productive live. One can blame others, rant and rave, or even ignore the problem without opening the door to any real solutions. http://www.stopaddiction.com is a website I use and refer to quite often in order to embrace a truly humanitarian approach to first understanding addiction and then finding workable lifelong solutions

]]> http://www.bloggernews.net/19611#comment-95691 paul Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:27:41 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19611#comment-95691 Having worked in psychiatry for twenty odd years,i have always found it strange why junkies get treated as patients,they may have a habit but lots of people have habits and dont get such mollycodling.There is no horendous withdrawel like with alchohol or barbs and heroine does not do much damage to the body like alchohol does,so whats the big deal.junkies do tend to be very pathetic people who like to winge alot but are certainly not deserving of special treatment like giving them their drug of choice on the NHS to save them money.Doctors basically dont know very much about drugs or drug users and so get conned but the addiction industry does keep alot of people in jobs and drug hysteria is good for tabloids and pop stars sales (and writers with drug memoirs) Having worked in psychiatry for twenty odd years,i have always
found it strange why junkies get treated as patients,they may have a habit but lots of people have habits and dont get such mollycodling.There is no horendous withdrawel like with alchohol or barbs and heroine does not do much damage to the body like alchohol does,so whats the big deal.junkies do tend to be very pathetic people who like to winge alot but are certainly not deserving of special treatment like giving them their drug of choice on the NHS to save them money.Doctors basically dont know very much about drugs or drug users and so get conned but the addiction industry does keep alot of people in jobs and drug hysteria is good for tabloids and pop stars sales (and writers with drug memoirs)

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