Drug and alcohol rehabs both benefit and suffer from labeling addiction as a mental health disorder. The upside is that the new insurance parity law will force many insuranc policies to pay for drug rehab centers in an equal fashion to other healthcare provided by its coverage. The downside is that it gets attached to a law that ultimately allows for pharmaceutical companies and ineffective psychiatric-based treatments to continue to bilk billions of dollars from American taxpayers by treating other forms of mental illness because they have convinced lawmakers that they are incurable diseases that require continual treatment.
Addiction recovery shouldn’t be a life-long endeavor. People are able to recover from alcohol and other drug addiction permanently, with no signs of relapse, and do so every day. This means that it is clearly not the incurable disease that the afore-mentioned groups claim it to be. At the same time, drug rehab centers that do have high success rates are able to make themselves available for more people by allowing them to be covered within the same calendar year after they have been unsuccessful at traditional addiction treatment centers.
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