Can Anyone Recommend a Good Substance Abuse Treatment?

Question by winona m: Can anyone recommend a good substance abuse treatment?
I have a teenage daughter who has been taking in drugs. This hurts me so much and I just want her to stop. I’ve been trying to convince her to undergo treatment, and I think she has finally learned to see my point. I just want to know what I should do.

Best answer:

Answer by mike j
That’s sad. I hope your daughter gets better soon. A good thing to do would be to bring her to an addiction treatment center. Substance abuse treatment programs nowadays include medication, counseling, and therapies that are scientifically modified. This will help your daughter gain back her life and help her deal with her problems.

Answer by shattered
No treatment in this world will stop a drug addiction unless you get to the root of the cause for the drug abuse. She is trying to escape feeling some kind of traumatic expereince by using. that is a way of not dealing with life. it helps to not feel anything and be able to deal with it. You need to help support her, don’t put her down or feel sorry for her abusing the drugs, you need to make her feel important and that you are her very best friend.. then you would of found that best treatment there is..

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