I don't know if it's just me but I think that sometimes, drugs might abscure a person's will to want to kick a bad habit, in cases like this with relapsing, or violent drug addicts, Why isn't there some kind of law that states the parents of children, or spouses of drucg addicts have the legal authoirty to put them in a rehab facility where they can't leave until they have completely detoxed?
**I pondered this after watching Intervention, at the end, it always seems that the people who even willingly enter lose to their personal battles and leave treatment on free will.**
2006-11-19 22:43:44 · 4 answers · asked by GreyRainbow 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
thnx Jen.for the insight..so now I must add not only after the detox, but after they kick the addction in the mind as well. I know that drug users have civil rights..but i just think if they were maybe there long enough even against wishes..something might..I hate to say this but 'dawn an enlihhtenment of some sort, ' that they do want to get better, and then they would be able to forgive their loved ones after for removing thre civil right of choice by having them there against there will.
2006-11-19 22:57:55 · update #1
yeah, having been to rehab, even if you're forced to stay, if you don't want to stay sober/clean after wards then it's just wasted time, money and space for someone who wants to get clean and sober! And there is always constitutional issues of freedom.
2006-11-19 22:57:25 · answer #1 · answered by onottopilot 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have ponedered the hows and wheres and whys f this question too. I ammmmmm soooooooooooooooooo glad that parents cant do this to their kids.... or partners to their spouse.....
When I was 13 my mother decided that I was so much like my father I was going to be an alcoholic or a drug addict.....
She incarcerated me into a hellish drug rehab centre against my will and despite the fact that I had never used drugs
The methods of rehabilitating people were at the least questionable and at the most were abuse of rights and power including but not limited to:
sleep deprivation
refusal of contact with others as punishment
verbal abuse by over 100 people at a time (try imagining being 13 and standing in a large hall with over 100 adults all screaming abuse at you!)
inappropriate provision of clothing
inappropriate provision of food
assaults including being doused with refirerated water during frozen winter mornings. being ordered to climb an obviously dangerous ladder and being refused medical attention when I fell and was injured. being refused medical attention for an abscessed gland that was caused by splinters from the many hours of sanding by hand I was required to carry out.
Being socially isolated by being refused permission to speak at all. Being further socially isolated by being refused to even eat with, be in a room with, or work with any other human being
Being ordered to sleep in a room with men who were incarcerated their instead of jail, (luckily the men concerned simply refused to allow that to happen all opting to return to jail rather than that..)
refusing an education to a minor (me)
And all the while my mother was being reassured that it was all in my best interests if she did not visit and to be certain that I was definitely a liar and not to take notice of anything I might say.
I know not all centres are like that... thankfully most are quite good...
But how would you know.... or anyone else for that matter who was not incarecerated in the centre know what was going on inside since by their very nature they are closed door instituions.
The owner operator of that centre did later face court and was jailed for his treatment of inmates but that will not ever und the **** I went through
OMG...... I am so GLAD that no one can be institutionalised against their will in these places.
2006-11-20 14:02:16 · answer #2 · answered by wollemi_pine_writer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
having been in rehab myself, i can say that there is NO forcing someone who absolutely refuses to get help.. you can try talking to them, you can try presenting them with information, you can try ultimatums.. but after all that is done, the only person who can keep them sober is themselves... detoxing isnt the same as kicking the habit, detoxing is getting over the physical withdrawl.. addiction is a disease of the mind as well as the body, the disease is incurable, and will remain long after detox...
2006-11-19 22:47:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because even drug addicts have civil rights. You can't just take away someone's freedom like that. Even if they're being stupid.
2006-11-19 22:47:37 · answer #4 · answered by Privratnik 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋