This is interesting. I feel a lot of people don’t understand addiction, normal people, health professionals, and even addicts, and so it’s not widely treated appropriately.
Addiction is a chronic disease and drug use is only a symptom. Removing drug use doesn’t treat the disease, only alleviates the symptoms.
Reading this article, I feel like I know this guy. Feels like me a while back, having a drinking problem and looking for a shortcut to fix it, that is what I was all about. Seems the writer found a magic pill that cured his alcoholism and gave him all the benefits of alcohol but none of repercussions. Idk, kind of feel it’s a dangerous game to play, remove the drugs and is he back where he was? And at this point, why even bother with moderation, I hardly think that is why he is a CEO.
@HoofHearted i believe abstinence is the only way to recovery; however, I found the lack of communication about medication available to treat us is rooted in designation discrimination concerning the addiction disease.
I’m a great fan of this man and his approach. It has given me a big deal of relief and hope. The compassionate way of guiding addicted people through a healing journey is deeply touching for me. Going through a therapy with a similar compassionate approach has given me so much benefit. Purely seeing my alcoholic part now not anymore as this monstrous thing that i have to fight but as a part with good intentions that is actually trying to help me is already a major game changer. This switch opens doors to understand the why’s that are somewhere deep down inside.
I work in harm reduction. My agency provides low threshold access to MAT. I could write a thesis on the barriers for people entering any form of recovery. Generally speaking GP’s are not really equipped to treat any type of SUD. But addiction specialists tend to be in very short supply and have long wait lists to get in.
So what we end up with is a bunch of doctors treating patients with a disease they don’t fully understand. These patients get shitty treatment and end up giving up altogether. I’m not sure if this statistic is still accurate but I’d imagine it’s close, there’s only one inpatient bed available for every 10 people getting treatment.
Don’t forget the ridiculous insurance companies and their prior authorization department who routinely denies treatment completely.
Then there’s the predatory rehabs who promote miracle cures and magic bullet pills. They often pass themselves off as experts and release slick sounding op-Ed pieces all in order to get people to buy their product.
K. I’m done now 