Substance Abuse Treatment and Schooling Is it Possible to do it Simultaneously?
In its presentation of America’s Drug Abuse Profile, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service or NCJRS (administered by the US Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs) found out that of the 12.8 million US residents with substance abuse cases, nearly 6% represent those coming from the age brackets 12 years old and above. This is around 768,000 teenagers who may have lost their chances of going to school.
According to the NCJRS, this number is not as alarming as the 25 million residents who were once drawn into the temptation of substance abuse. But then again, there is no reason for families to ignore these incidents. If you are a parent of a person seeking drug abuse treatment or alcohol abuse treatment, you may be concerned about your child’s schooling. Is there reason enough to make them stop from going to school? Or should you encourage them to continue with their educational path no matter what it takes?
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Detoxification and Drug Treatment Facilities – What is Addiction and What Happens in Rehab?
Incidences of drug addiction are increasing as social drug use becomes more prevalent each year. Although drug addiction has been a major problem for hundreds of years, more is understood about the nature of addiction today. Years ago, those caught in the vicious life of drug addiction had very few options and those options did nothing to help the nature of the problem, they simply treated the symptoms.
The truth about addiction
Addiction is a disease that is progressive and fatal if not arrested. Most drug treatment facilities and professionals now base their treatment on the fact that if an addict achieves sobriety, the first hit or shot will take them straight back to their previous existence of obsessively and compulsively seeking drugs.