Suncoast Rehabilitation Center took the Narconon Drug Rehab Program information to the National RX Drug Abuse Summit in Orlando where over 700 participants from around the country meet to address the prescription drug abuse epidemic.
Spring Hill, FL (PRWEB) April 26, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Actor Nick Stahl, who was reported missing by his wife, emailed friends to tell them he has checked into drug rehab, TMZ reported Saturday.
The “Terminator 3″ star sent the mass email Friday, but did not include his wife as a recipient, sources told the Web site.
2010 Wawarsing attack spurred measure
Pat Cuomo, shown soon after her daughter, nurse Keri Reynolds, was wounded in 2010 by a rehab center patient, wants state laws to change.TOM BUSHEY/Times Herald-Record
I was recently employed as the nurse at an in-patient drug and alcohol rehabilitation/social detox program in the inner city. What was I thinking when I said “yes” to this job offer? I’ll tell you what I was thinking-that it would look good on my resume, that I wouldn’t have to get human excrement on me anymore and that I would be treating people that actually wanted treatment. I can’t even begin to tell you how very wrong I was.
I think I was disillusioned about how rehab actually works. I mean, you hear stories about how people want to turn their lives around and make it all right again. Get their jobs and their family back. That probably does happen in some cases. That’s not what I saw in rehab, not by a long shot. Quite literally, 97% of the people that were admitted to the rehab program where I worked were court ordered to be there. I didn’t know exactly what that meant at first, but I found out quickly enough. “Court ordered treatment” means that if they don’t successfully complete a 21 day stay at an in-patient drug treatment facility, then they get to go to jail. So 97% of the people I was treating were there not because they wanted to be, but because they had to be there to avoid jail time. The majority of the people that I talked to were not interested in quitting their use of illegal substances, and were open about it. They would laugh and joke with their peers about how the first thing they were going to do when they left rehab was get high as a kite. That’s if they had to wait that long. You see, some facilities may check visitors for drugs or weapons when they come to rehab to visit their family members. Not this place because they didn’t have the funding to hire the staff to do the checking. I do not remember how many people were unsuccessfully discharged from the program because their urinalysis showed up dirty on a Monday morning after a long weekend of visitors to the rehab. Very disheartening to say the least.
