Regarding Rehab Treatment?
Question by raigafan18: Regarding rehab treatment?
So I have been an addict of Ritaline for 5 months or so, and I am taking it irregularly so I feel high at times instead of taking it properly. It’s gotten to the point where I grow angry and verbally violent if I miss a dose, I am extremely secretive about how I take it, and I prioritize taking it before the other meds I cant abuse (and most other things).
My fear is that in time, I wont quit, and I might have to go to rehab if I cant get it under control myself. So now, I ask, if I go there, what are the details of rehab? What activities are permitted and/or required? What is the living situation and conditions?
Best answer:
Answer by raysny
Misuse of medication is something that you can control. Seems you have the idea that rehabs have some sort of magic or secret methods to get you to quit.
Most rehabs, over 90% in the US, are AA-based, the rest are almost all Narcon (Scientology-based) or heavily religious.
You’ll be taught that you have a life-long disease that even God can’t cure, only grant a fearful day by day reprieve from your addiction.
They keep you busy with groups, meetings, and mandated activities from 7am to 9pm. Weekends are a little more open, most have visiting hours on Sunday afternoons for immediate family.
I was in five before quitting drinking on my own, the only phones were pay phones and you couldn’t use them for the first couple of weeks, even then it’s a privilege that must be earned and can be taken away for any reason. They limit your contact with the outside world.
You can’t leave except as a group to go to outside AA or NA meetings.
The whole thing is indoctrination into AA/NA. You will be expected to follow up rehab with daily meetings for at least three months. AA is tough on relationships, one out of four marriages break up within a year of one member joining AA. They are told that people not in the programs are outsiders that cannot understand what an addict or alcoholic is going through. They call these outsiders “normies” or “earth people”. It is a cult-like method to limit contact with those outside the group.
Many who can’t buy into the program drop out and feel compelled to use again, often worse than before. You will be programmed to believe that you are an alcoholic/addict and will always be one, that your only hope of sobriety is to attend meetings and work the program. The Brandsma study showed that people exposed to AA end up binge drinking five times as much as people who attempt quitting on their own, nine times as much as those who receive rational-emotive therapy:
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Brandsma
Many in AA will tell you that you’re not really sober if you take any type of medication:
http://www.jsad.com/jsad/article/Alcoholics_Anonymous_and_the_Use_of_Medications_to_Prevent_Relapse_An_Anon/730.html
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