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A quick glance at most addiction treatment news articles today usually
yields some stories about high-profile people entering a treatment
center, some new piece of legislation being supported by one group or
another, and even the latest attempt to treat addicts with more drugs.
The first category starts to become redundant when a celebrity goes
in and out of multiple centers. This sort of news is helpful to the
addiction treatment field as far as general promotion goes, but harmful
when multiple relapses occur. A successful program will ensure that the
majority of its clients do not have to be readmitted for treatment.
The last example might be the most startling one, since the goal of
addiction treatment should be to get people to stop using alcohol and
other drugs. By prescribing a new drug to someone already addicted,
they are being left under the influence, mentally and/or physically, of
yet another toxic substance complete with its own set of side effects.
News of these drugs, most of them already on the market for some other
treatment and being tested to see if they have any effect on addicts,
is typically related to the stock market shares of the drug's
manufacturer. There never has been a wonder drug that will cure any
kind of addiction on a broad basis, or even produce newsworthy results.
Therefore the addiction treatment news focus isn’t on how effective the
drug is, but how many millions or billions of dollars in sales the
for-profit drug maker is projecting for its new market.
History has demonstrated that drug-free addiction treatment has a
longer-term effect on the individual. The real addiction treatment news
is that Narconon Arrowhead's drug-free social education approach
combined with the New Life Detoxification program results in a success
rate of over 70%
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