A quick glance at most addiction treatment news articles today usually yields some stories about high-profile people entering a treatment center, some new piece of legislation being supported by one group or another, and even the latest attempt to treat addicts with more drugs.
The first category starts to become redundant when a celebrity goes in and out of multiple centers. This sort of news is helpful to the addiction treatment field as far as general promotion goes, but harmful when multiple relapses occur. A successful program will ensure that the majority of its clients do not have to be readmitted for treatment.
The last example might be the most startling one, since the goal of addiction treatment should be to get people to stop using alcohol and other drugs. By prescribing a new drug to someone already addicted, they are being left under the influence, mentally and/or physically, of yet another toxic substance complete with its own set of side effects.
News of these drugs, most of them already on the market for some other treatment and being tested to see if they have any effect on addicts, is typically related to the stock market shares of the drug's manufacturer. There never has been a wonder drug that will cure any kind of addiction on a broad basis, or even produce newsworthy results. Therefore the addiction treatment news focus isn’t on how effective the drug is, but how many millions or billions of dollars in sales the for-profit drug maker is projecting for its new market.
History has demonstrated that drug-free addiction treatment has a longer-term effect on the individual. The real addiction treatment news is that Narconon Arrowhead's drug-free social education approach combined with the New Life Detoxification program results in a success rate of over 70%
