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I read an article today about a guy who overcame opiate addiction. Well, nearly - he’s on methadone. We’ve had several comments in response to our blogs about methadone treatment – many from people saying that it allows them to live a normal life. If you buy the argument that having to take opiates every day to function is normal, so be it. But drug detox followed by a good drug rehab program that actually addresses the reason the person got addicted in the first place would be far more ‘normal’.

The purpose of drug detox is to get the person off the drug safely and relatively comfortably, instead of having to go cold turkey. But, often, it’s not the be all and end all.

There’s no denying that this guy’s life is better now than it was when he was on OxyContin and a myriad of other drugs – living like an addict, having lost everything. But, it’s not true that his life is better than it would be had he followed up his drug detox program with a good drug rehab that got down to the bottom of his drug addiction problem and enabled him to live drug-free.

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