A lot of people view addiction as a life long disease, that is progressive and unrelenting. You are powerless over it and have to turn it over to a higher power. This may not be true. When you leave a drug rehab center you may actually be able to move past addiction for good. A study recently published in the Canadian Journel of Psychiatry stated that many gambling addicts recover naturally on their own. Addiction is not always progressive, and may have ebb and flow.
It is a behavioral problem that can be resolved with gathering the skills to behave in a different way. Sound familiar? It is something I have been writing about for a couple of years now. Drug rehab should teach skillls. Rehab is about learning, not about admissions of powerlessness. It is about asking about what you need to learn and change in your life. Then find the place that can teach it too you. You can and will move past addiction.
