It can happen to you. That’s the dirty secret about drug abuse, and drug addiction: It can happen to you. And if it does, the only chance you’ve got lies in a drug treatment center.

People don’t like to talk about the ubiquity of drug addiction, and drug treatment center programs. In polite circles, addiction is routinely discussed as someone else’s problem, as the sort of disease that could never afflict that most revered and inviolate of all human constructions: Me.

The truth, unfortunately, is another story entirely. Drug addiction really can happen to you, same as it can happen to anyone. And you, just like anyone else, don’t stand a chance of beating it outside of a drug treatment center.

There are by some estimates as many as ten million drug addicts…prospective drug treatment center patients…in the United States. They are rich and poor, black and white; they come from wealthy neighborhoods and privileged backgrounds as surely as they come from the gritty-hard cradle of the streets. They are regular people, those ten million drug addicts: people like you and me and any of us, people who got caught on the wrong side of a disease they never saw coming.

Pity any one of them who doesn’t get the help he needs from a drug treatment center. And pity the self-assured fool who can’t learn from their example.

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