Substance Abuse Treatment: What is and Isn’t Working
Substance abuse is common in America, and there are treatment options available. Treatments for substance abuse scale from professional counseling to 12-step programs. Most of these programs do not have outstanding success rates, considering not everyone can afford professional help. 12-step programs seem to be more common, with that in consideration there are downfalls to this way of treatment. Lack of funding, religion, socioeconomic status and more are a few factors contributing to treatment options. Given the current aspects of treatment offerings there are improvement options. Improvement so that people even in the lowest socioeconomic status can receive treatment. However, not all …show more content…
An advantage being that professionals incline toward the linkage between religion and sobriety; disadvantages of including religion involve the complexity and controversy of religion (Stinson,2013). Stinson also determined that the advantages of religion in substance abuse treatment outweighed the disadvantages (2013). This study has reason to believe that religion is acceptable in the process of treatment, although that might not be true with all religions. The results of a religious/spiritual scale taken to determine if patients of a Jewish residential substance abuse treatment center showed that patients were “unchanged” by the end of the treatment (Parhami,2014). The scale showed that patients religious or spiritual selves were not altered by the treatment of substance abuse under a religious basis treatment (Parhami,2014). The results determined that people that are religious or spiritual beings have a better chance of a positive treatment outcome in a religious based treatment center (Parhami,2014). Religion does not seem to have a great negative effect on substance abuse treatments. More analysis proves that religion based treatments tend to primarily effect those who are religious or spiritual to use their faith to overcome abusing substances. A religious aspect on treatment is not determined to be more successful than other …show more content…
There should be improved ways of payment, include a family focus, and a trained staff to increase the success rate. There should be locations that are reasonably reachable by those in areas of need. This is a need for change in order to maintain and increase substance abuse treatment. However, religion does not necessarily need to be banished from treatment options. It suggests to be beneficial or not of concern to those who received substance abuse treatment. In the end funding is what really needs to change in order for improvement to be made in treating substance
Substance abuse is common in America, and there are treatment options available. Treatments for substance abuse scale from professional counseling to 12-step programs. Most of these programs do not have outstanding success rates, considering not everyone can afford professional help. 12-step programs seem to be more common, with that in consideration there are downfalls to this way of treatment. Lack of funding, religion, socioeconomic status and more are a few factors contributing to treatment options. Given the current aspects of treatment offerings there are improvement options. Improvement so that people even in the lowest socioeconomic status can receive treatment. However, not all …show more content…
An advantage being that professionals incline toward the linkage between religion and sobriety; disadvantages of including religion involve the complexity and controversy of religion (Stinson,2013). Stinson also determined that the advantages of religion in substance abuse treatment outweighed the disadvantages (2013). This study has reason to believe that religion is acceptable in the process of treatment, although that might not be true with all religions. The results of a religious/spiritual scale taken to determine if patients of a Jewish residential substance abuse treatment center showed that patients were “unchanged” by the end of the treatment (Parhami,2014). The scale showed that patients religious or spiritual selves were not altered by the treatment of substance abuse under a religious basis treatment (Parhami,2014). The results determined that people that are religious or spiritual beings have a better chance of a positive treatment outcome in a religious based treatment center (Parhami,2014). Religion does not seem to have a great negative effect on substance abuse treatments. More analysis proves that religion based treatments tend to primarily effect those who are religious or spiritual to use their faith to overcome abusing substances. A religious aspect on treatment is not determined to be more successful than other …show more content…
There should be improved ways of payment, include a family focus, and a trained staff to increase the success rate. There should be locations that are reasonably reachable by those in areas of need. This is a need for change in order to maintain and increase substance abuse treatment. However, religion does not necessarily need to be banished from treatment options. It suggests to be beneficial or not of concern to those who received substance abuse treatment. In the end funding is what really needs to change in order for improvement to be made in treating substance