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NY Times article about addiction treatment
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 579124" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I'm very grateful we got lucky in this. I strongly believe that my difficult child would not had done well in traditional twelve step or similar program. I believe it would had been very bad fit for him and he would had just rebelled and made mockery of all that. And that of course would had only worsen his problems. He seriously lacked that kind of humility and maturity those approaches need from the person. </p><p></p><p>We got lucky that the program that was easy ta access and recommended and dealt with his addiction specially was research based, lead by educated specialists, individualized and more or less ongoing (he was discharged from the program after year and half but can easily go back if he feels he has more difficulties handling his addiction or if he slips or relapses.) It was mostly out-patient with some weekend camps. And for him the approach that it was something he could control, he could learn to keep in bay and handle the urges and educating him about addictions and new research concerning them was much more beneficial than trying to get him to eat that much of humble pie twelve steps for example require.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 579124, member: 14557"] I'm very grateful we got lucky in this. I strongly believe that my difficult child would not had done well in traditional twelve step or similar program. I believe it would had been very bad fit for him and he would had just rebelled and made mockery of all that. And that of course would had only worsen his problems. He seriously lacked that kind of humility and maturity those approaches need from the person. We got lucky that the program that was easy ta access and recommended and dealt with his addiction specially was research based, lead by educated specialists, individualized and more or less ongoing (he was discharged from the program after year and half but can easily go back if he feels he has more difficulties handling his addiction or if he slips or relapses.) It was mostly out-patient with some weekend camps. And for him the approach that it was something he could control, he could learn to keep in bay and handle the urges and educating him about addictions and new research concerning them was much more beneficial than trying to get him to eat that much of humble pie twelve steps for example require. [/QUOTE]
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