AHS Views

I understand Linsday Lohan is back in rehab. And she’s busted again, suspected of driving while intoxicated and possession of cocaine. Here’s the problem with ankle bracelets – they don’t actually stop the person from wanting or needing to drink any more than wearing a watch would stop a heroin addict from wanting or needing a fix. For that you need a successful alcohol and drug rehab program that finds out why the person started on the road to addiction and gets them turned in another direction.

Guidelines, rules, laws, prisons, police sitting in patrol cars on street corners waiting for someone to speed or run a red light, officers patrolling the streets, and even high tech ankle bracelets, do not get rid of alcohol or drug addiction. They act as a deterrent, no doubt about that, but for the true addict, it’s only marginally more effective than putting a chain on an angry dog. The dog is still angry. He still wants to attack you. And he will at the first opportunity. He has to. It isn’t even because he’s a bad dog, he just has to.

Until you find out what’s behind a person’s alcohol or drug addiction problem and get those things squared away, the chances of things changing are very, very slim. And that can only be accomplished by successful alcohol and drug rehab.