Alcoholism Treatment in the US

IN A NUTSHELL

When businesses such as rehab centers or anyone who receives funding or compensation to counsel and treat “Alcoholics” attempt to expand their “Market” by being inclusive of ANYONE who simply “Drinks too much” they make a lot of money!

They are compelled through profit motive to label people as “Alcoholic” even though these paying or subsidized “Clients” may be mere non-alcoholic “Hard drinkers” or Alcohol “Abusers”

For example: If I claimed to have a treatment for diabetes, I would make more money and have more “Customers” for my “cure” if I could re-define “DIABETES” as a condition that includes “Anyone who eats too much sugar” regardless of their bodys ability to metabolize sugar and the existence of diabetes in that person. Now I get to include a much larger market in my business plan – I can fill my facilities much easier – AND I can promote my artificially inflated “Success rate” because I am apparently successfully treating people of “Diabetes” who never HAD diabetes to begin with. I have only convinced them that they had it. This is the oldest snake oil scam in the world – only now on a grand scale.

Compound this situation with the idea that I REALLY do not HAVE a cure for diabetes, but it seems so because of my now highly inflated and false “Success rate” and I think you get the idea of what Alcoholism treatment is all about.

And now for a THIRD complication: Suppose I could convince the public at large that not only are “All sugar abuser” diabetic but even folks who abuse coffee/caffeine are Diabetic and in need of my services. Now I have an even more TREMENDOUS market – one I NEVER would have had if I had stuck with REAL DIABETICS – for whom I have no cure anyway.

Now not only am I shamming sugar abusers who are running around saying “I’m a diabetic but Danny’s Diabetic treatment gives me a good life” but REAL DIABETICS seeing these folks living fine lives, get false hope in my phony cure — and die of diabetes for lack of receiving a real treatment from me.

This is a very close approximation of the state of addiction and recovery business in the US today.

Peace,

Danny S

Real diabetics are the alcoholics, hard drinkers are the sugar abusers and the coffee/caffeine abusers are the “drug addicts” in the alcoholism recovery field. It is a real mess!