Any sort of addiction requires an understanding of the contributing issues and a resolve on the part of the addict to work through these issues and get free.
Rehab counseling can guide the addict to an overall understanding, but they still gotta resolve to get free and be free.
Bootcamp sounds like some tear them down, build them back up approach to discovering the underlying issues and developing the strength of resolve to get free and be free.
Hmmm....
Rehab provides the guidance to understanding; bootcamp builds the required resolve.
Combine the two, and THEN you'll have a PROGRAM goin'.
'Cause, it really doesn't make any f@ckin' sense to lock these people up.
Send them to a rehabilitative boot camp.
Could 'Boot Camp' Benefit Drug Addicts More Than Rehab?
SodaHead News
2011/09/12 15:00:00
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Drug addiction is a painful thing to watch, but sometimes it can be just as painful to watch an addict recover, whether it's from potentially torturous physical dependencies or deeply rooted psychological dependency.
That's why some families are going to extremes to wrest their loved ones from the grip of addiction when rehab just doesn't seem to be working.
Dr. David Moore, licensed psychologist and chemical dependency professional, and Bill Manville, author of "Cool, Hip & Sober," published a joint discussion of what Moore calls "no-frills addiction recovery boot camps."
These drug addiction boot camps, such as Healing Places in the U.S. and Yevgeny Roizman's Russian Boot Camp recovery model, put drug addicts through cold-turkey recovery programs more akin to homeless shelters.
According to Manville, at the Russian camps "they just lock them up, caged together on double-decker beds. They can cry all they want that their mother didn't love them but that doesn't stop the agonies of withdrawal working their way through their system—and when it does, they're clean."
But it does have its benefits. In addition to theoretically powering addicts through the initial withdrawal phase, boot camp treatment cost significantly less.
They estimate that a boot camp like Healing Place will run addicts around $25 a day, compared to $650 a day for those "plush rehabs" Charlie Sheen has had so much success at.
That's why some families are going to extremes to wrest their loved ones from the grip of addiction when rehab just doesn't seem to be working.
Dr. David Moore, licensed psychologist and chemical dependency professional, and Bill Manville, author of "Cool, Hip & Sober," published a joint discussion of what Moore calls "no-frills addiction recovery boot camps."
These drug addiction boot camps, such as Healing Places in the U.S. and Yevgeny Roizman's Russian Boot Camp recovery model, put drug addicts through cold-turkey recovery programs more akin to homeless shelters.
According to Manville, at the Russian camps "they just lock them up, caged together on double-decker beds. They can cry all they want that their mother didn't love them but that doesn't stop the agonies of withdrawal working their way through their system—and when it does, they're clean."
But it does have its benefits. In addition to theoretically powering addicts through the initial withdrawal phase, boot camp treatment cost significantly less.
They estimate that a boot camp like Healing Place will run addicts around $25 a day, compared to $650 a day for those "plush rehabs" Charlie Sheen has had so much success at.
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Ceo Twentyfourseven 2011/09/12 16:33:29
PS. To the "Dad" who would be a proud parent until their kids became addicts then would hope they would go into the night.... I pray for their sake that they never let you down, because then they will have a lifetime of "I was never good enough" from their once Proud Parent. So I guess you are only a Dad when they are good, you are only proud when they are good, you are only proud when they do what you DEEM as the right choice? Good luck with that... I feel sorry and will pray for your children.....because that is an impossible standard
Because other than that, they do have a chance of relapsing, it's all about the support system surrounding that person too, if a person finds themselves in the same drug-infested environments as before, chances are they'll use again, that's why they have recovery houses to help the addict in their addiction, yes it's hard and the success rate is low, but for the ones that DO make it, they have to decide that this is something they WANT
I'd be quite leery of any type of boot camp or rehab program that makes participants go through their withdrawal cold-turkey, with no medical help at all. Withdrawal, especially from substances that are physically addictive [such as heroin and other opioids, and alcohol], can be extremely dangerous. I think that weaning people off of their drug of choice is a more responsible way to sober up those people.
The results of sending substance abusers to boot camp for treatment certainly cou...
I'd be quite leery of any type of boot camp or rehab program that makes participants go through their withdrawal cold-turkey, with no medical help at all. Withdrawal, especially from substances that are physically addictive [such as heroin and other opioids, and alcohol], can be extremely dangerous. I think that weaning people off of their drug of choice is a more responsible way to sober up those people.
The results of sending substance abusers to boot camp for treatment certainly couldn't be less successful than going to rehab. The boot camp alternative is much more cost-efficient than paying for in-house, long-term rehab. As my grandma used to say, "Idle hands are the Devil's workshop," and that's true. As a tigger who was once considered a hopeless alcoholic and drug addict, I've had plenty of experience in this regard. Addiction is a full-time job, and stopping the abuse leaves a giant hole in one's daily life. Unless a person has something more constructive and productive to take up their time and fill that void, then their life will still be empty and rife for returning to substance abuse. Still, I don't know why a boot camp atmosphere AND a rehab-type program can't be used in tandem to treat people who are alcoholics and drug addicts. It shouldn't be a matter of either/or, but BOTH.
do that for them.
not just 2 months of tennis and methadone.