They might say that they can “quit anytime they want” but what happened when they actually attempted to do so or were forced to quit?

…people who take Iboga experience psychedelic effects, characterized by hallucinations, geometric patterns, the sensation of time slowing or speeding up, depersonalization, and spiritual experiences, including the feeling that one is near-death or has died and entered the afterlife.

…it serves to interrupt the automatic thoughts which drive a person to use their substance of choice when they feel a craving. The act of getting up, opening the journal, and then putting pen to paper changes your environment and this changes your brain's thought pattern.

“To those forced into treatment by court order, a Crisis Stabilization Unit can feel like a prison. Nonetheless, CSUs can be live-saving resources to the people who need them, though wait lists are long and the material conditions are spartan.”

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The first scenario that comes to mind is that of a bad actor. A duplicitous examiner could easily bend the definitions of these criteria in order to obtain a diagnosis of substance use disorder or inflate the severity of that diagnosis…

What might motivate an examiner to do this? Well, consider a drug treatment center that wants to enroll a patient in expensive inpatient rehab. They might stretch the definitions to make that patient meet more criteria in an attempt to deceive the patient and their family into thinking that their expensive treatment plan is justified.

The idea that we would hand their care over to a for-profit, paramedical industry is anathema to our profession. You would never see “diabetic rehabs” or “losartan clinics” but no one raises an eyebrow to the existence of drug rehabs and methadone clinics.

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