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Question by 🙂: What percentage of the United States are drug addicts?
I dont want a number, i want a percentage and according to who is that percentage obtained? I need this for an essay and i have looked it up on google but they keep giving me number not a percentage. Thanks

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Answer by Spykerz
What percentage voted for Obama?

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Drug addiction rehab refers to drug rehabilitation. Nothing can be deadlier than severe addiction to drug. It’s more like a disease that has no cure. Addicts know very well that drug consumption is fatal for them, but this knowledge doesn’t realize into any good. Addiction takes over whatever free-will or determination they have and those hapless people end up being examples of how lethal drug addiction can be.  

When we see people are falling victim to drug addiction, we just can’t sit and watch their agony. Society is not just a mutual cohabitation, it also demands one person to be active and help others. So, drug addicts need help from other people. But naïve ones lacking idea on removing drug addiction couldn’t help them, even if they want to.

That’s where drug addiction rehab centers are to play their role. Those centers have drug rehab experts working with them. They also have requisite infrastructure to reduce the degree of addiction. Procedures that follow in the name of drug rehabilitation are mainly detoxification therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, counseling and advice and medical treatment. If all those procedures are properly followed, drug addicts could be brought back to normal life.

Physical healing is a major issue in drug rehab program. Some people are so addicted that they can’t stop taking drug even for one day. If they do so, their bodies will start having problems; spasms, seizure, fever, nausea, cramps and muscle pain are some of the physical symptoms of withdrawal and to set aside such problems, detoxification and medical treatment are either merged or one is applied parallel to the other. The purpose here is to lessen physical problems, caused inevitably due to the course of detoxification.

Of course there are some other considerations such as how strong is the drug, for how many years the taker has been into it, whether it’s legal or illegal etc, but said therapeutic procedures are used more or less, if it’s a case of substance abuse or drug addiction.

Any treatment, which involves use of medically approved drug, has a problem; they can’t be run for indefinite period of time. Treatment of substance abuse therefore, can’t solely base itself on applying medicine.

There comes the importance of psychoanalytic counseling. There are a number of PAWS (post acute withdrawal syndrome) symptoms, which are to do with mental health. Such symptoms are phobia, not being able to organize thoughts properly, severe depression etc. A comprehensive psychoanalytic therapy helps one to recover himself/herself from these mental disorders. But the crux is that psychoanalytic treatments can be best applied in a drug addiction rehab center. There are more than one addict, who come to these centers for getting treated. That’s why, it’s easy to build up a community like environment between these inpatients.

Once such an environment is built up, inpatients would become more communicative and they’d appear to be more responsive to the therapist.

The bottomline is; physical and mental healing are both required for drug addiction treatment and drug addiction rehab centers can offer that.

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Question by : How many addicts successfully recover from drug addiction?
Those rehab places seem like a revolving door. What percentage of drug addicts who’ve been addicted to hard drugs for at least one year successfully recover from their addiction the rest of their lives?

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Answer by applesk8er
1 in 6

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