by Robert Mckenna

Created on: May 17, 2009   Last Updated: May 23, 2009

Drug addiction has become the bane of existence for millions of Americans. There are over three million drug addicts in this country. Drugs, for many started because of peer pressure, social lubrication, or even a medical prescription, legally issued for pain or anxiety, somewhere along the road turned from toy or tool, to abuse and slavery, in the form of drug addiction.

In local, state, and federal jails in this country, most recent figures show there are over two million Americans in jail on drug charges. The War on Drugs has spent to date this year over 19 billion dollars, and there are fifteen hundred cases of HIV so far this year, because drugs and drug addiction is alive and well, and somewhere on the street where you live.

It is not so important why it happened; the laws cannot undue what has been done. Drugs are here to stay. Drug addiction does not have to be a death sentence. There is help for people who want off the merry-go-round of drugs, an ever destructive, enslaving, and demeaning life of drug addiction. Drug rehab is a place where a drug addict can go and get help getting off drugs, and is the first step on a road to recovery.

Drug rehab is one of a number of choices a drug addict can choose, if they really want help freeing themselves from a life of drug addiction. Drug rehab comes in a variety of lengths of time for in-patient stay, as well as out-patient opportunities, depending on your needs and the severity of the addiction. Drug rehab has worked for thousands of Americans who are today leading a clean and sober life.

Drug rehab and the twelve step program of Narcotics Anonymous are just a couple of places a drug addict can get help. Drugs and drug addiction cause people to do many things they regret, as the statistics indicate, but drug rehab and other support groups are there to help. Nothing you could have done due to drug addiction will horrify or surprise the counselors and doctors at a drug rehab, many of them are in recovery, and giving back the gift of sobriety that was given to them.

The war on drugs will go on and despite the governments best efforts drugs will continue to flourish. Drug addiction is on the rise in this country, and every year takes thousands of lives. The only thing stopping a drug addict from getting help is a lack of desire. Drug rehab will never curb drug addiction in those addicts who do not want to stop using drugs. The desire to continue on in drug addiction to the bitter

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