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Addiction & Recovery

get the red out

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3. Rehab facilities are already monetized

Reply to NMDemDist2 (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2014, 03:06 PM

Jan 2014

They charge huge amounts of money to send people to AA.

I have to admit, I am not against this. Many people do suffer a duel diagnosis. I am one of them. I used to be one of those anti-mental health medication people until I found myself sober 17 years suffering from pretty bad mental health and afraid to tell anyone because it would mean I had personally failed in "emotional sobriety". I was so ashamed, but what I really was was depressed. I got that treated, like I would readily get some physical illness treated, and am much better off for it.

I don't see why it is a bad thing to treat someone's mental health but a good thing to treat their physical health?

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Cross post -- Big Pharma Pimps Alcoholics--With Government Help [View all] NMDemDist2 Jan 2014 OP

Thanks for posting..Big Pharma will never stop. Stuart G Jan 2014 #1

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Rehab facilities are already monetized get the red out Jan 2014 #3