Why Most Cocaine Rehab Programs Fail

There are many reasons why someone would try cocaine. However, when one experiences the emotional ‘excitement’ provided by cocaine, as with most illicit drugs, the reason why one continues to use cocaine is generally the same for everyone because the drug relieves the stresses and failures of life. It's a way for everyone to pursue emotional drug addiction. Once the addiction is set, there are approaches to cocaine recovery because there were reasons to try the drug in the first place. This diverse approach to cocaine rehabilitation leads to equally diverse  especially when contrasted against a wide variety of individual addict personalities. Some psychological-based rehabilitation programs focus on counseling the individual mentally. Other additional medical-based programs focus on the physical aspects of addiction. These individually crafted approaches produce highly diverse outcomes with an equally high incidence of recurrence in addiction. The oddity is that a clear approach to addressing the physical and emotional aspects of drug addiction in a rehabilitation program is clearly the most  with an unusually low rate of recurrence. Clearly, addressing only the physical or emotional side sets up recovery addicts for failure and  as the statistics have demonstrated over the past 30 years. This is where the 12-step program fails. This is where ordinary imprisonment ultimately fails. The physical aspects of addiction are still not well known by the medical community. It is thought that the body soon adapts itself to the presence of drug residues. When the level of residue of these drugs falls below a certain level, when the body needs food or water, the body becomes hungry or wants to drink. What makes this system difficult to predict or fully understand is that clearly drug residues can remain in the body for a long time and are a source of future “drug flashbacks” that can occur even years after the end of drug use. A simple method of flushing the body, and especially the fatty tissues known to store such substances, is essential for any effective rehabilitation program. Any method of rehabilitation that fails to address this aspect of addiction is appropriate. The emotional side of addiction is also not well known by the psychiatric community. It is thought that the person lacks the will to stop using drugs or has some simple 'reason' to get addicted to drugs. Statistics show that addicts become addicts and stay because they want to escape from some aspect of their life that they cannot cope with or resolve. It can be as simple as failing to graduate from high school. Drug use helped the addict to 'escape' the failed grade and fully developed addiction helped the addict to run away from school completely. The same model applies to failed marriages, lost careers, the death of loved ones, the 'love' of adolescence and so on. The simple truth here is that now a completely addicted person has failed in one life skill or another. And if lost life skills are not given, there is a good chance of returning to drug addiction after resettlement. Basic life skills training goes a long way in effectively rehabilitating addicts from drug use, as addicts are largely eliminated from the ranks of drug addicts in the first place.