Why is Drug Rehab Necessary?

I helped a young man with his heroin problem about two years ago. He would not go to detox rehab treatment, just refused to check himself into a Narconon town or any center. He wanted to just do it himself and asked if I could help him.

I agreed and started visiting with him twice a week. After a consolidate of months, we switched to once every week, them twice a month, etc.

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This is not a unintelligent kid, he is a very talented artist, but his talent was wasted on heroin and before that, any other drugs. He was very naïve, though. He had been told (by his pusher) that heroin is not addictive, if you smoke it. He said that only when you use a needle can it precisely take hold of you.

Anyway, he has now been off H for two years.

Is this a success story? I think not.

Now he lives inside his mother's house and only comes out to buy groceries or get the mail or an occasional trip to Starbuck's. He has not been creating on his art. He is a sculptor and makes startling ceramic figures, statues, etc. But not anymore.

This young man is off of heroin. But is he rehabilitated? No.

Rehab, or rehabilitation, precisely means to put back into a former, able condition. To have abilities and functionality restored. Anyone can just take a person off drugs, just lock them up and never give them any drugs. But that handles roughly nothing.

A rehabbed person is able to go out and live a life, one that has meaning. The fully restored drug addict is no longer weighed down by his or her addiction and the problems that went with it. They can move on.

The goal is Not to plainly stop the drugs. The drugs were merely symptoms of what was happening underneath, what was going on inside.

And That is what true rehabilitation handles.

Why is Drug Rehab Necessary?