Should a chronic drug abuser attend a treatment program close to home?
Drug and alcohol addiction typically involves habitual routines in the environmental scope of the individual, i.e. the locations of their drug use along with the people they associated with in the activities of drug use, etc. Drug addiction is not just the drug use, it revolves around people and things in their immediate environment which help to trigger the addictive behavior. The abuser’s location and routines of drug use further trigger more drug use. It is the constant and seemingly unstoppable drug use and the hopelessness of day to day existence which perpetuates the problem and inhibits the native desire to stop ruining their life through the use of drugs, especially, cocaine. Even overwhelmingly positive and beneficial changes in life, such as the birth of a child or a new job do not guarantee the individual will have no thoughts of missing past negative activities such as cocaine use, drug or drinking acquaintances and other associated activities. Factually this is the normal
