Habits, Addictions, and Self Righteous quitters

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Your bad habits and addictions are a foundation for a booming economy. Just think about it- all the tax on alcohol, cigarettes, gambling that feeds the government takes more money out of some peoples earnings than their income taxes.
And consider the unbelievably expensive rehab industry, a great business to be in since they know you will always be coming back for more.
Factor in the higher health insurance costs that are passed on to all of us when someone’s insurance has to pay for a $30,000 month of rehab. And since it takes 3-4 attempts at rehab to get clean, it is a major drain on our insurance costs for all of us.
Take a long slow deep breath- this is the worst part. What percent of crimes are drug related? Ask a cop. It’s big. Most violient crimes are due to drug abuse that there is no effective help for.
And after you do all that, you probably would need a drink.
I wonder how much our economy and tax base is supported by our bad habits… or more accurately by our attempts to be free from them.
Shopaholics, Gamblers, Alcohol and drug users, smokers, and this one is truly frightening.
One of the most rapidly growing drug addictions among teenagers is prescription drugs. Opiates that are rapidly catching on, often starts with V/ic/od-en abuse, is an opiate. It is higly addictive and extremely hard to quit.
From www.teendrugabuse.com
Today teenagers are NOT using as much
cocaine, crack, LSD, and ecstasy as the teenagers of the 1960’s. Kids
have found other ways and means to get high; painkillers and other
prescription drugs are being abused at record levels. This up coming
generation of teens has been given the name “Generation Rx.”
Teens are often getting caught raiding their
parent’s or grandparent’s medicine cabinets in order to get high. For
the first time, national studies show that today’s teens are more
likely to have abused a prescription painkiller than any illicit drug.
What can be done? The generation coming up through the ranks is going to be battling addiction in much greater numbers that anything we have yet seen.
Unfortunately, I have become an expert on the effects of o-x/y#contin (sorry, gotta bypass the filters) and opiates, since I have helped a family member through rehab for this addiction. It is truly mind bending, brain altering and will take some new methods of fighting the good battle to help this next generation have their lives back.
In my opinion, traditional rehab is a dismal failure. A new approach absolutely must be availalble to give people a new way to get clean and sober.
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