Everyone would like a simpler solution to drug and alcohol addiction. Drug rehab is certainly possible and successful in a large number of cases. It requires a lot of work and commitment to change. Because drug rehab is expensive and time consuming, nobody really wants to go and wants to spend the money. This makes us open to things that seem to good to be true. Actually when it comes to health in general we are all victims of one time or another of junk science. What I am talking about is "loosely defined claims" made to look like science.
Many health supplements play this game. They mention lots of conditions and suggest a certain herb may be helpful, when there are no studies proving it has any effect at all. The same thing happens is drug rehab. Sometimes things are suggested and presented as science when there are no study proving the treatment any more effective than doing nothing. Drug addiction is a complex problem and no one solution is effective on all clients in all situations. Mant times treatment is suggested simply because that is the way the person suggesting the treatment got sober.
Ask for treatment based on evidence. Ask for a list of references backing up the form of treatment. Look some of them up. Junk science is long on story, but very short on real studies.
