Why Drug and Alcohol Addiction Intervention Fail; an Interview with Bob Forrest

It's very hard to get through to artists when they are engrossed in addiction. Addictions Interventions don't always work. Even with family and loved ones begging someone to go to rehab, people will walk away from an addiction intervention because they are not ready. According to Celebrity Rehab's Bob Forrest, that often correlates to the size of a person's ego. Many people still don't see drug addiction as a disease, yet with addiction people are dying right in front of our eyes.

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[theabigailjean]

Bob Forrest is so beyond amazing.

[FreeCanna]

After 15 years of alcohol, crack and shooting up heroine i`am 7 years clean on this moment,

and still sometimes it rings in my head,.. difference is, now i can handle those demons and i will not go back to Hell !!

[BlackLabelSlushie]

@Flipper79able Again, my answer is 1. I don't know and 2. "disease" model is not proven. 3. it's super interesting but the more I think of it, it's not realy the most critical thing for me to worry about in practice. Call it a habit, disease, call it Bob. I call it a huge problem that has been fucking up my life for 3 years and if it goes on could completely ruin the quality of the rest of my life. I think that captures it without making it my identity.

[BlackLabelSlushie]

@Flipper79able "Maybe we should trust doctors?"

I have 2 doctors in my family, one of whom was an addict (alcohol). You might check the physicisans site physicians(dot...)

"...physicians’ views of alcoholism were reviewed at an August 1997 conference held by the International Doctors of Alcoholics Anonymous (IDAA). A survey of physicians reported at that conference found that 80 percent of responding doctors perceived alcoholism as simply bad behavior."

[Flipper79able]

@BlackLabelSlushie Dude, scientists barley have the brain figured out. We haven't unlocked all the secrets of the brain. For instance we can't give brain surgeries to correct most mental illnesses...but we know through behavioral therapy that certain people suffer from schizophrenia and bipolar....just like addiction. Should we question those brain illnesses just cause it can't be proven without a doubt? The AMA has recognized addiction as a disease sense the 50's. Maybe we should trust doctors?

[BlackLabelSlushie]

Is addiction a disease? I try to not be fanatical on either side. As a layman who has read every side and argument in this debate, my best conclusion right now is: it's not yet proven that it is a disease. Nobody at this point seems to have truly figured addiction out, as proven by the very haphazard and limited success of standard treatments (rehab and AA type). Loads of people stop addictions without using any of the AA/Disease/recovery models. Others find success with AA etc.

[chris101ward]

Why is it that musicians on top of the world who could have anything they could want become drug addicts. You could have a lot worse fuckin problems than press and media so what the fuck?

[rsohlich1]

@MrAntonyT25 but did the guy/girl who picked up the H want to be addicted and think it would ever happen? Hell no. Did he know he would have a pre-disposition to addiction problems?

[rsohlich1]

@nolayat I believe its a disease, but theres still some choice in it.

[nolayat]

Alcoholics or addicts have no choice in whether they want to drink or use they are powerless its not because lack of will power or character or sin its because they are sick bodily and mentally but they can recover despite what you may hear they can recover and lead normal productive lives they can have freedom just some work has to be done on their part.