The Myths and Realities of “Hitting Bottom” 12 Step Philosophy: you can't help an individual until they want and ask for help, which relies solely on the natural process of intervention. If the person doesn't accept or ask for help it is because they don't want help Let nature take its course! Intervention is an attempt to control. Bottoms can be raised: that is what an effective process of calculated intervention does! Denial; self-blame; underlying hopelessness (that often

We are still criminalizing addiction by imprisoning individuals’, with no prior offenses, for a small possession conviction – usually this possession is for personal use. If we want to imprison individuals for drug use and possession let’s mandate them to treatment incarceration. Why not create prisons just for addiction. Prisons that have a full addiction program and qualified staff to provide treatment. This would truly be the definition of forced treatment. However it woul