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Drug Substitution and Maintenance Treatment
Drug Substitution Rehab Programs Drug Replacement Therapy or Drug Substitution and Maintenance Treatment is where people who are addicted to illegal drugs can trade in their illegal addiction for a legal one. Now that might sound a little crazy at first, but there is some logic to the practice, if only a little. The justification for this seemingly nonsensical procedure is that the addict can then get their drugs legally and thus not have to risk getting arrested for drug possession, or engage in risky needle sharing behavior. Although the person on such replacement programs is no longer at risk of being put in jail for their addiction, and needn’t be at risk of getting hepatitis or HIV/AIDS due to having to share potentially unsanitary needles, the downside of these programs is that the replacement drugs are also addictive and have horrible side effects themselves. For example, in such a program, a person gets off of heroin by taking Methadone instead. But they are now hooked on Methadone, which is even more difficult to withdraw from than heroin. And it’s just as toxic as well, if not more so. There are other drugs used for drug substitution as well, such as Suboxone and Subutex for opioid addiction. However, they are also addictive and toxic, and thus continue to harm the person’s health, and deteriorate their mental state. In spite of that, the process might still make some sense, if non-drug, pain free withdrawal and rehab programs didn’t have such high success rates. But drug-free, pain-free withdrawal and rehab programs have been around for many years. And their success rate in getting people off drugs and keeping them off drugs for a lifetime, is very high. So the practice of drug substitution is actually not justified at all, unless one considers greed and the attraction of the almighty buck Unfortunately, chasing the buck is the only logical reason that such programs would continue to exist, as it is profitable to have a lifetime drug buyer as a customer, and not have to hide from the law in order to deliver the drugs. Of course, there are illogical reasons for them to continue as well, such as harmful intentions towards others (a form of insanity). However, it’s obviously one or the other. Or maybe it’s both. |
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