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Sometime the youths fall for bad habits like drugs or alcohol that destroy their life totally. This is a major problem for most of the society that needs to be cured. Sometime the involvement becomes so much that it not only destroy their thinking process but also make them so ferocious that there comes a need for proper treatment. Substance abuse is a behavioral pattern that is caused by consistent and compulsive drug use an over involvement with the drug. In that case the patient becomes dependant on the drug. The substance abuse treatment centers give a substance dependent support through which he or she can get rid of the drug habit gradually. The treatment may differ for different patient according to age, sex, culture and orientation. Sometime stopping the drug right away may prove to be fatal. The group of doctors and other professionals who take care of the patient are experienced enough to give proper treatment to the patients.

There are several steps involved in the treatment. The most available and encouraged treatments are Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous which are twelve stage treatment. The final step of the treatment often is most challenging because there is a chance of relapse.

At the same time the addicted person becomes so week from inside that he looses all hope and believes that he can get back to the normal life. In such cases a mental counseling is needed. Sometimes the healing process involves prayer and confidence boosting activities. The main goal of substance abuse treatment is to bring back the substance abuse to the normal flow of life while being good to him and making him feel one of us. The family support is a must. With the help of physical, mental and spiritual treatment one may get back his normal life.

Norman Smith seemed to be making progress in his liver cancer recovery at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, Calif. He had some of the best doctors in the world, he was on a transplant list and he had completed a successful clinical trial that had his doctors dubbing him a “miracle man.” Then, his cancer returned and two months before he was would have received a transplant, he was de-listed for smoking marijuana prescribed by his oncologist at Cedars-Sinai. Now, if he doesn’t receive a transplant, he will die. “It’s only my life that I’m fighting for,” says Smith. “What do I have to hide? I have nothing to hide.” Smith’s situation represents one of the first battles being fought over the place of medical marijuana in medicine and it has left him in limbo. Cedars-Sinai declined interview requests but referred Reason TV to Peggy Stewart, a clinical social worker with UCLA’s transplant program, which holds a similar position to Cedars-Sinai on medical marijuana. “Marijuana is considered substance abuse,” says Stewart. “The legality of it is really not an issue.” Stewart and Cedars-Sinai did say that transplant patients who consume marijuana put themselves at potential risk of infection from a mold found in cannabis called aspergillus. But not everyone sees the mold as a potential threat. “The truth is that Norman lives in Los Angeles and there are laboratories that he can take his medicine to and make sure that it doesn’t have contaminants,” says Stephanie Sherer of …
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