It is so easy to say a drug addict is weak, bad or some other label. The truth is they may be one or more of those things but that has nothing to do with their drug abuse and addiction. Drug addiction is a brain disorder which renders the person virtually powerless over their ability to not use or control their drug use. More and more research confirms this fact. So, you may say, what? Well, when talking to families about it, and they tell me their child was a good person and all of sudden they are a very different, we have some encouraging news. And the other thing is drug addiction can be put into permanent remission, if the person is willing to follow the process known as drug rehab and recovery.
Here’s a drug treatment center which treats addiction as a brain disease