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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 616160" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>One question: Is your reluctance to leave your daughter to treatment centre for longer time simply because you hate her being out from home and treatment or do you also have some mixed feelings about the facility she is in? It's very understandable to hate it, when your child is so ill that they have to stay in hospital or other treatment, but if the child needs that treatment, we just have to live with that pain. </p><p></p><p>However, if some of it is misgivings about this particular treatment facility, it is a different issue. Substance abuse treatment is huge (and quickly growing) business with little oversight, few scientifically proven (or even adequately researched) treatments and lots and lots of centres and professionals and 'professionals' running them with very varying backgrounds and very varying quality. Effectiveness of different treatment protocols and even less the facilities is little researched and tradition tends to be, that any good outcome is considered to be due the facility and it's program and any bad outcome is due to patient not doing something right or faultiness of the patient. We are not keeping same standards to our addiction treatment (and in smaller degree our psychiatric treatment) as we are for other medical fields.</p><p></p><p>If you have issues with the treatment centre or feel uneasy about them, do raise those issues up, ask also difficult questions and demand answers, do find out if this facility is the best option and treat it like you would treat the facility you send your child to have a knee operation or treatment for cancer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 616160, member: 14557"] One question: Is your reluctance to leave your daughter to treatment centre for longer time simply because you hate her being out from home and treatment or do you also have some mixed feelings about the facility she is in? It's very understandable to hate it, when your child is so ill that they have to stay in hospital or other treatment, but if the child needs that treatment, we just have to live with that pain. However, if some of it is misgivings about this particular treatment facility, it is a different issue. Substance abuse treatment is huge (and quickly growing) business with little oversight, few scientifically proven (or even adequately researched) treatments and lots and lots of centres and professionals and 'professionals' running them with very varying backgrounds and very varying quality. Effectiveness of different treatment protocols and even less the facilities is little researched and tradition tends to be, that any good outcome is considered to be due the facility and it's program and any bad outcome is due to patient not doing something right or faultiness of the patient. We are not keeping same standards to our addiction treatment (and in smaller degree our psychiatric treatment) as we are for other medical fields. If you have issues with the treatment centre or feel uneasy about them, do raise those issues up, ask also difficult questions and demand answers, do find out if this facility is the best option and treat it like you would treat the facility you send your child to have a knee operation or treatment for cancer. [/QUOTE]
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