by Louis Phillip Archambault

Created on: July 05, 2009   Last Updated: July 21, 2009

Article Topic: Treatment programs for men with substance abuse problems

The History of Substance Abuse: Treatment programs have sprung up in response to the overwhelming epidemic of behavioral disorders that where once tolerated without intervention. Drugs and alcohol have long histories of use in the development of the world. Substance abuse becomes an issue now and again when "the powers that be" find it advantageous to intervene for monetary gain.

Throughout history behavior altering substances have played a role in human social development and have been demonized. The latest story starts back in the late 30's when the hemp industry made a machine to harvest hemp in high volume, which threatened the fabric industry run by DuPont (rayon, nylon), financed by Mellon Bank ( sole financier was William Randolph Hearst). The Marijuana Tax Act was passed by Congress in '37 orchestrated by Henry J. Aslinger of the Senate subcommittee for illegal drugs. Aslinger was married to Mellon's daughter at the time. Usury Its all about the money!

In other research, historians describe the 1920s as a decade of contrasts and conflicts. Overall, the decline of the Anglo-Saxon class as the most influential group in American society characterized this time period. Even as the power of the Anglo-Saxon establishment was on the wane, one of its final attempts at holding onto control was the passage of national Prohibition.

Substance Abuse Programs Treat Life-style Behaviors: Life-style stress from class conditioning stimulates the fight or flight behavior response in every individual. Responses to social-stimuli are manifested in our behavior all the time. The question is why are so many people having trouble coping with their social-condition. As long as people are not willing to be honest with their emotions they will continue to avoid them by masking them in altered states of consciousness that manifest itself sometimes in abusive behavior.

Why Substance Abuse Programs are Necessary: Substance Abuse Programs are needed to rehabilitate people from the conditioning that brought them to the brink of the social-intolerance caused by their emotional turmoil.

The source and root cause of our actions and reactions are generally a social peer group pressure prompted behavior that benefits a group at the expense of the target audience. In explanation: People are conditioned like Pavlov conditioned his dog to respond to the bell stimulus - humans respond to money for and

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