Every year hundreds of people of all age groups fall prey to use of drugs through different parties and through easy access to their parent's medicine cabinets. Besides recreational drugs, the prescribed drug addiction is a huge problem now-a-days. Most people are not aware of the dangerous implications of drug use which are thrown at site and from where anyone can use and abuse them. People from all spheres of life like doctors, entrepreneurs, housewives and blue collar workers are exposed to such implications to which they are not immune as well. Drug treatment centers spread around different regions and in different states around the world are dedicated to providing education and to provide cure to such people.
Most drug treatment centers have developed a responsible and workable sense of personal ethics through which they plan to provide recovery. They follow the twelve step recovery program of alcoholics anonymous to effectively treat the patients. The steps followed in the drug treatment centers imbibe a sense of ethics in the abusers who were earlier both mentally and physically dependent on the substance. These steps are:
1. Avoiding constant denial of the fact that he/she has become dependent on any substance that has taken control of their life and that their life has become unmanageable.
2. Believing and having faith on a greater power which would establish their faith and flourish their inner capabilities of avoiding the drug use.
3. Establish inner sanity and turn their life over to the care of a supreme power which believes in forgiveness.
4. Establishing ones moral inventory.
5. Coming to terms with the negativity of their life and what life has done to them.
6. Being ready and preparing one self for the fight ahead which would remove the defects of their personality.
7. Progress towards the eventualities and shortcomings of life and remove them.
8. One should be willing to take action and make amends with persons whom they have harmed in the process.
9. One should only make amends to those persons where there is no possibility of harm or abuse.
10. Continue to take steps to make amends and progress towards normal life.
11. Improve life through meditation and involvement in various social causes.
12. Carry forward all that they have learned in the process.
A person who successfully completes the entire process is called a graduate. A graduate who has learnt about the steps are believed to continue to stay well but only if they use the proper tools they have learnt and practiced while on this program. Former addicts achieve a new life once they have started to believe in themselves.
Those that abuse drugs chronically are involved in various detrimental systems of attitude as well as values and criminal behavior. They also lack moral, responsibility and long-term goals. The procedures followed in different drug treatment centers develop personal values and responsibility of an individual. Patients learn about communication and integrity in life. They also recover and continue to lead a normal life.
