It’s a funny title of a post to find in a blog about fiction writing, isn’t it?
I’m proud to say that I’ve almost never taken drugs (explained below) so I’ve never needed rehab. But there are a good many people who do need help and it must be terribly difficult if you’re in that position, knowing that you need help, but not always able to find it.
When I was a young man I was always against drug use, but a few of my friends did it. As so many people did back then. Fortunately they never did it while I was around because I would have taken off – I was rather intolerant in those days. Many years later I met up with one of my close friends of the time.
Over dinner he told me how his wife at the time (now his ex) had made a ’special’ cake which had the effect of sending me temporarily deranged. I don’t remember the incident, but he found it hilarious to recount it to me.
This particular couple never got into it deep enough to need rehab, but I’ve known people who have needed rehab and when you see someone you care about in that particularly deep hole that is addiction, it’s amazingly painful. Especially because in the end, you can’t really help them. They have to make the decision for themselves.
It’s interesting to me that Stone Hawk drug rehabilitation center has a philosophy that seems to say the same thing. You really can’t stand in moral judgement over someone when you’re trying to help them. All you can do is give them the space to make the decision for themselves and then give them some tools to back it up. I guess that’s why they achieve a 76%+ success rate.
For every person who goes into rehab there are many more who don’t. To those who don’t, it’s probably important to know that help is available.
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