I am usually very patient and loving toward people as work with my clients. I cannot find the same patience or love and tolerance when trying to work with or for my friend. I get surley and down right mean at times. I believe fully that whatever works for someone is what they should. If they are able to find sucess, as the fellow in the CNN video. I know that I believe that is really what is important. Whatever works that is all that matters. Harm reduction is a viable outcome. It is a sucess. Drug and Alcohol Addictions is devastating. Any success is monumental. I know this to be true on some many rational levels.

Why then; when it is about someone I personally care about I end up acting like such as ass?

On the other hand, a concern I have is that the more our society used medication to treat addiction, the more we must be aware that this is not a viable replacement for individual therapy. Just because agencies may administer affective drugs, doesn’t mean they should provide any less therapy to these patients. It seems like this could be a potential problem in the next few decades as people continue to replace human beings with objects, which often include drugs. There is less face to face interaction among individuals and communities, and more interactions with inanimate objects in our current technological revolution. These objects can include prescription drugs. Essentially, one could argue that we are just helping addicts replace objects with other “safer” objects.

J