I will grant you that someone’s first decision to use an illicit drug or abuse a prescribed medication may have been a flaw in their character, a sin, or an error in personal judgment, but first, someone is in the throes of substance addiction, they have crossed over into living with a personally ...

Research statistics have shown that even after 6 weeks of inpatient treatment for alcohol and injected heroin addiction, that 90% of adult men will have relapsed within the first 12 months of their discharge. Often 50-60% of these relapses having occurred in the first 60-90 days from their release. ...