There has been a lot of deeply emotional stories in the news these past few days here in the U.S. Particularly, the death of Cory Monteith saddened me as an entirely preventable tragedy.
I tend to repeat the same few points on this blog; that addiction needs to be treated like any other disease; that it needs to be de-mystified and recognized; that rehab doesn’t work. I worry sometimes about getting too repetitive, but then a story like this comes into the news, and I remember why I keep saying these things. It’s because people like Cory Monteith are still dying every day due to their mistreated and unrecognized addiction problems. It’s because the rehab that Cory went through didn’t work, and it was never going to work. It’s because if Cory had been treated in a program like mine, that manages addiction medically, he probably wouldn’t have suffered such a fate.
I won’t stop writing until these things stop happening.