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>What could Jack, as an individual, do? In truth, not much. What could the patents do? In truth, not much. This is bullshit. People who want to beat their add
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>What could Jack, as an individual, do? In truth, not much. What could the patents do? In truth, not much.
This is bullshit. People who want to beat their addiction and have the support from their immediate family are the demographic that most readily beats addiction.
When it comes to beating addiction, losing weight and all sorts of other things that require a lot of willpower having some personal motivation to do whatever it is plus a support network who can help you and encourage you is just about the most effective strategy. People care a lot more about doing hard things if they feel their family has a stake in it.
- vintermann 5y agoI said not much, not "nothing". It's AFAIK true involving family is one of the most effective things you can do in rehab. But it can be very costly on a human level, and there's still depressing outcomes. It's not easy to run such family intervention initiatives. An old friend in my teetotaller org did it for a while, starting up family clubs after the design of a little known Yugoslav/Italian academic, Vladimir Hudolin. There are things you can do, but they're not very effective and at best they help you and the ones closest to you. I'm saying, I think we should see it as a social problem more than an individual problem, and try to address it at the social level first and foremost. We'll likely always need rehab in some form, for humane reasons, but it's not possible to use it to paper over the deeper problems surrounding drug use. That's like replacing traffic safety with emergency medicine.