With drug addiction at epidemic levels - it is now the number-one killer for people under fifty years old - you would think that treatment would be easy to obtain and to understand. Well, it's not. It never has been. There has yet to be a consensus among professionals regarding the best way to deal with this national crisis.
You might think that because this is considered a medical condition, you'd treat it the same way as any other illness. You'd make an appointment to see your doctor, and upon sharing the symptoms of your illness, it would be identified. A prescription would be written to help alleviate the symptoms while you received a specialized treatment for the illness. If that was all it took, I wouldn't need to write this book!
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Key ideas in this chapter
- The confusion and division in addiction treatment approaches
- Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) vs. residential treatment
- The importance of treating addiction as a serious, progressive illness
- What it truly takes to get well: hard work, willingness, peer support
"It takes a lot of hard work, willingness, a desire to truly change and grow as a person, a safe place full of peer-led support, and people successfully living in recovery as guides."