Comments on: Addiction: Not the Package You Want for Christmas http://addictionmanagement.org/2009/05/addiction-not-the-package-you-want-for-christmas/ Solving the problem of addiction Wed, 16 May 2012 14:48:47 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: admin http://addictionmanagement.org/2009/05/addiction-not-the-package-you-want-for-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-1152 admin Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:29:05 +0000 http://addictionmanagement.org/?p=170#comment-1152 Thanks for the feedback! and yes, addiction is a complex problem that does not have any quick fixes. J Thanks for the feedback! and yes, addiction is a complex problem that does not have any quick fixes.

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]]> By: J.Estrada http://addictionmanagement.org/2009/05/addiction-not-the-package-you-want-for-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-1151 J.Estrada Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:59:08 +0000 http://addictionmanagement.org/?p=170#comment-1151 I like how you wrote this. I believe this is something that most addicts do not agree with at first. Many people think that if you go intro treatment for say a heroin addiction and you are treated for three weeks that you are magical "fixed". That doesn't help the depression, anxiety, loneliness, ect that caused them to use in the first place. You often read about celebrities going for two or three week stays in an inpatient treatment center and when they are done they proclaim that they have a new found way of life. Three weeks later you see them on a downroll spiral back into the same lifestyle. Like you have said in a few of your other blogs long term treatment is key in recovery. Addiction in not a quick fix situation, it is a complex situation with many variables. I like how you wrote this. I believe this is something that most addicts do not agree with at first. Many people think that if you go intro treatment for say a heroin addiction and you are treated for three weeks that you are magical “fixed”. That doesn’t help the depression, anxiety, loneliness, ect that caused them to use in the first place. You often read about celebrities going for two or three week stays in an inpatient treatment center and when they are done they proclaim that they have a new found way of life. Three weeks later you see them on a downroll spiral back into the same lifestyle. Like you have said in a few of your other blogs long term treatment is key in recovery. Addiction in not a quick fix situation, it is a complex situation with many variables.

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