It would be fair of me to give an update after praising Castle Craig outside Edinburgh and Smarmore Clinic outside Ardee- to note that I have since found out that Smarmore Clinic are not the only drug treatment centre in Ireland who follow the same approach. I just found out that the Rutland Centre do also. There are other drug treatment centres in Ireland- I don't know much about them either but the same model the above have could be common across drug treatment centres. I just didn't get that treatment with a drugs counselor and psychiatrists in the public health service- admittedly I have never been on an inpatient drug centre treatment programme.
Along with the huge problems of alcohol and illegal drug addictions in Ireland the prevalence and growth of gambling and according to
this article in The Irish Times today sex and porn addiction is worrying.
I have more to say about drug addiction from my own personal experience but I will leave it to future interviews I do on the subject like heretofore and post the podcasts links here. I generally feel more comfortable talking to recovering addicts and professionals in this sector in person and not over a blog. :) I would point to what Dr. M. Scott Peck said in Further Along The Road Less Travelled on addictions as worth being congnisant of though.
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