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The stigma attached to drug abuse
Many patients hesitate before making the decision to seek drug addiction treatment. It’s not hard to see why, given the stigma attached to drug abuse in most corners of polite society. But that stigma doesn’t make drug addiction any more the fault of its victims—and it certainly doesn’t make drug addiction treatment any less important. Drug dependency is never a choice. Addicts don’t decide to be addicts, in the same sense that cancer victims don’t decide to be cancer victims. On the contrary, addiction is a disease, and like any disease it can only be overcome with the help of trained medical experts. Drug addiction treatment, then, is absolutely vital to any addict’s prospects for long-term recovery. If you’re going to get better, it’s going to be because you get the right kind of help from the right kind of caregivers. The day you enroll in a professional drug addiction treatment facility will be the day you start rediscovering life as you used to live it, before addiction stripped you of your hope and joy and dignity. It’s hard to imagine how anything could ever be more important than that. |
