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Parents Preventing Drug Rehab Help?

December 5, 2007 on 2:39 pm | In Uncategorized |

Over the years I have come to find a very disheartening observation.  There are often parents who contact us to find effective drug rehabs for their son or daughter, and after they are referred to a successful center, and realize and ackowledge that is exactly what they’re looking for, don’t follow through with getting them the help they need.  The common thread in most of these parents that I have found is that they are on some type of prescription drug themselves.  In most cases, it is something for behavioral symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, “adult add”, “bipolar disorder” or whatever else has been concocted.  The drugs prescribed to treat the symptoms of these diagnoses render someone partially incapable of making a rational decision.  Yes, I mean even the most loving, well-intentioned mothers fail to help their children get into a drug rehab because of their own drug-taking, no matter how “harmless” it may seem.

 Don’t believe me?  I could give you dozens of specific examples.  So, if you know a parent out there who continues to not help their child get into an inpatient drug rehab program that works, look a little closer and you will probably find a prescription bottle in their purse, nightstand, medicine cabinet, kitchen or their car with their name on it.