Bob Forrest & MusiCares: Why Drug and Alcohol Addiction Intervention Fail
Bob Forrest & MusiCares: Why Drug and Alcohol Addiction Intervention Fail – It’s very hard to get through to artists when they are engrossed in addiction. Addictions Interventions don’t always work. Even with family and loved ones begging someone to go to rehab, people will walk away from an addiction intervention because they are not ready. According to Celebrity Rehab’s Bob Forrest, that often correlates to the size of a person’s ego. Many people still don’t see drug addiction as a disease, yet with addiction people are dying right in front of our eyes. MusiCares® acknowledges that a vital part of addiction recovery is support and aftercare services. The implementation of recovery support groups help ensure that MAP Fund clients are receiving the tools that they need in order to maintain a clean and sober lifestyle. www.musicares.org Please help MusiCares® continue with this important work. Learn how at MusiCares.org
Alabama gov's panel examines prescription drug abuse
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Alabama's physician governor told a national conference that medical professionals who help patients abuse prescription drugs should lose their licenses. Gov. Robert … drug abuse. He spoke Monday as the group opened a two-day meeting in Montgomery.
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Volunteer opportunities in Howard County
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Alcohol and Drug Abuse Advisory Board — Seeking board members to serve five-year terms, and help review services and need for services relating to alcohol or drug abuse education, treatment and prevention in Howard County. Must be Howard County …
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17 Responses to Bob Forrest & MusiCares: Why Drug and Alcohol Addiction Intervention Fail
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Look what happened to? amy winehouse
This man is an angel.?
I didn’t say a thing about opiate addiction. Yes it is a hell of a thing to try and quit, but the legalization of all intoxicants is mandated by the ninth amendment and the love for liberty over police state soviet crack downs on the innocent.
I’d rather see the not so innocent ones taking the risks, and leave the innocent ones out of the police targets. What would you rather see, more and more innocent people? being killed over the over jealous police actions on the wrong addresses?
i would disagree. you never dealt with a physicaly addicting drug it seems. coke will screw with your mind and you will crave it, that is for sure.. but you will not be sick for two weeks if you miss a dose. heroin addiction, specificly, is a re occuring issue . it is a disease. as somebody who has been through it. i have no need for? propoganda. im glad you over came your coke habit, but it was a habit, not a physical addiction that your body truly depended on.
Bless you Bob? Forest for your work.
“It changes the? bio-chemistry”
I? guess the million dollar question is whether the biochemistry ever goes back to normal. If not, then I guess by definition you now have a permanent condition.
I would have to agree with the quack tommy cruze that most of psychiatrists (not the surgeon types) are quacks practicing quackery. But there are some sever cases they do provide? a service.
It changes the bio-chemistry is the only possible relation to a disease. So what do they do to balance the chemistry?? Different drugs.
Is very different than a? recurring cancer. Stop with the bs propaganda. What difference you ask? The ego choice of it all.
If you want to beat coke, the next time your friend chops up the lines and offers you the glass, tell them to do it first, then take the glass and blow it all over the floor. Hopefully into a shag carpet. That person will not be offering any more.
I stopped using coke just like that, and not buying any more. No Problem.
Bob is a? good counselor. But hes a complete wack job on politics and religion.
as a recovering addict. i would say addiction is a disease, but in the sense that you have to infet yourself with that disease first. once you do,? its no different then any re occuring form of cancer of disease.
bob you are my hero for what you do ive been sober 12 yrs.like? they say one day at a time
After 15 years of alcohol, crack and shooting up heroine i`am 7 years clean on this? moment,
and still sometimes it rings in my head,.. difference is, now i can handle those demons and i will not go back to Hell !!
Again, my answer is 1. I don’t know and 2. “disease” model is not proven. 3. it’s super interesting but the more I think of it, it’s not realy the most critical thing for me to worry about in practice.? Call it a habit, disease, call it Bob. I call it a huge problem that has been fucking up my life for 3 years and if it goes on could completely ruin the quality of the rest of my life. I think that captures it without making it my identity.
“Maybe we should trust doctors?”
I have 2 doctors in my family, one of whom was an addict (alcohol). You might check the physicisans site physicians(dot…)
“…physicians’ views of alcoholism were reviewed at an August 1997 conference held by the International Doctors of Alcoholics Anonymous (IDAA). A survey of physicians? reported at that conference found that 80 percent of responding doctors perceived alcoholism as simply bad behavior.”
Dude, scientists barley have the brain figured out. We haven’t unlocked all the secrets of the brain. For instance we can’t give brain surgeries to correct most mental illnesses…but we know through behavioral therapy that certain people suffer from schizophrenia and bipolar….just like addiction. Should we question those brain illnesses just cause it can’t be? proven without a doubt? The AMA has recognized addiction as a disease sense the 50’s. Maybe we should trust doctors?
Is addiction a disease? I try to not be fanatical on either side. As a layman who has read every side and argument in this debate, my best conclusion right now is: it’s not yet proven that it is a disease. Nobody at this point seems to have truly figured addiction out, as proven by the very haphazard and limited success of standard treatments (rehab and AA type). Loads of people stop? addictions without using any of the AA/Disease/recovery models. Others find success with AA etc.