Hello,
I've noticed recently the increasing number of people going to rehab for whatever addiction they supposedly have. My question is, is rehab really the answer? There are so many people that choose that root to try and get themselves better. Most of the time though the program is only for thirty days. Now I know that it is said that you need thirty days to kill a habit but then there are so many of those same people that go right back to what they were doing the second they get out. So it's like is this proposed "solution" even really working? In my eyes thirty days is not nearly enough time to get a heroin addict off heroin. It is way to powerful of a drug to kill the addiction in such a short time and I'm sure that it isn't easy with other addictions either. On top of that, a lot of the people going to rehab, especially younger people, are only going because someone else wants them too. In order to change your life you have to want to change. You cannot force a person to do something that they don't really want to do. It will never work out.
So these people are paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars to go to a resort and/or spa like recovery center to try and "help" their addiction when a lot of the time the money and the thiry days is all for nothing. It is just like they went on a month long vacation.
People need to either find a more effective solution to the ridiculous drug problems out there or they just need to let people continue to use and eventually kill themselves. It is their choice and their problem. I don't want to sound unsympathetic towards people with an addiction but at the same time I am tired of letting those people affect my life in anyway. They do not bring good to me, only hurt and let downs.