ROCKING AND ROLLING INTO RECOVERY
“Addicts, people chemically dependent: the justifications, the excuses – it’s something we’re all really good at,” Howk said.
“It’s not good, because of lack of access, to provide one more excuse to not seek treatment. “It’s not good, to have the best facility saying `I don’t know if you can get in, maybe through the side door.
Or the
bathroom can’t work, well…but maybe we can take the door off the hinges, but
you’d have no privacy.’”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Studies estimates that roughly five million people have both a substance use disorder and a co-existing disability.
The over-prescribing of opioids for pain has contributed to growing addiction rates.
Studies have found
that up to 50 percent of individuals with spinal injuries, orthopedic injuries,
and traumatic brain injuries indulged in heavy drinking.
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