Rehab Sucks!

What is the rate of success of these Rehab clinics?  Is there anybody counting?  The sooner we realize that nobody has a clue on how to help people, the faster we'll get to work on a solution. Those bullshit licenses just give us a false sense of being in good hands.

Specialists is a term highly misused.  What makes you a specialist in somebody else?  How can you pretend to know my loved one better than I do?  Oh yeah! You want my money.

Poor people get rehab from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, that basically you will get: Regular rapes by your cellmate; Beatings by the guards; Ignored by your public defendant; Abandonment by your family and friends; Lifetime stigma as a dangerous criminal, no matter what your crime was.

People with resources, I mean money, get to go to these hotel-like  facilities where a team of  "professionals" that will take care of them, according to their working schedule.  They will take care of them on the clock. And that's fine, everybody needs to pay bills, so let the money go around. We love Capitalism.

Talking about Capitalism.  Rehab facilities exists to cover a demand for a service.  Every Christmas, malls around the country hire people to pretend to be Santa Claus.  We all know Santa Claus doesn't exist, but we bring our kids to meet him, and give us satisfaction, our kids laugh and we take pictures to put up on Facebook, so we look all happy, next to an invention, a seasonal character, the same as uncle Bill, that visit us once a year.

Rehab is a "feel-good" place where judges can send the privileged among us.  Where Father and Mother can send me to feel like they are helping, and place where drug companies can continue prescribing their "fix" to addicts without them having to get served by the curbside dealer.  No more little plastic bags, now you get your "medicine" in amber plastic bottles, you can even order it online.

Yes, we couldn't save Robin Williams, and the veterans that end their lives afraid, alone, misunderstood.  Depression, P.T.S.D, Substance Abuse, these are all challenges that we need to learn how to overcome.  We tend to send away the problems that we don't know how to deal with. Government just throw money at things.  So I say we confront those demons head-on, and give love to those in need, and look around, ourselves, for a reason to live.  Let's live.