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One of the biggest myths about addiction is that people need to be ready to get help before they can benefit from drug or alcohol rehab or treatment.

We all believe it, and we think that until someone hits rock bottom and truly decides to make a commitment to change, that nothing can be done, and that intervention is fruitless.

It’s a myth

Luckily, pop culture knowledge isn’t necessarily truth, and in this case research proves that our understanding of addiction is completely false.

Clinical data indicates that a person’s motivation for entering into treatment has little influence over eventual success and sobriety rates, and as such addictions professionals will recommend that if anyone abusing drugs or alcohol can be persuaded to accept help–even if they deny the existence of a problem–they should be encouraged to go.    Read more...

How to Stop Addiction: Reader Reaction Forum: How should addictions be handled in pop culture? – Post-Crescent
Here is a man who has had rehab for his addictions, been fired from his job, had doomed marriages, been the butt of jokes, yet the American public continues to love his antics. The public should stop supporting him. Most addicts don’t change their habits …
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How to Stop Addiction: Mysteries of addiction: Another private struggle turns to public tragedy – Canton Repository
“When people get into recovery, they learn new behaviors and get their issues taken care of, they stop impulsive behavior. … It takes work, like maintaining diabetes. Addiction is a symptom of the disease.” Max Burkins, program manager at the …
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Causes of Addiction: Winehouse among music talents gone too soon – The Associated Press

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Winehouse among music talents gone too soon The Associated Press The hard truths of addiction don't fit neatly into pop tunes — or morbid 27 Clubs — but play out over years of toil. Early death typically mythologizes pop stars, inflating their reputation. Pop culture writer Chuck Klosterman, in his book "Killing … and more »

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Addiction Rehab in the News

Addiction Rehab: The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace
It once promised to redefine music, dating, and pop culture. Rupert Murdoch fell in love with it. Then everything fell apart
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Addiction Rehab: Jew-bash ‘addict’
Famed designer John Galliano insists he’s not a hateful bigot — just a drunken, pill-popping ad dict. The loony fashionista told a Paris court yester day he has no memory of his anti-Semitic diatribes and blamed booze, barbi turates and sleeping pills for the convenient black out. “I have…
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