01-20-2017, 12:08 PM
New Rehab Will Treat Drug Addiction With ... Marijuana?
A new rehab facility opening in West Los Angeles promises to treat drug addiction in a new and exciting way: by giving addicts drugs.
Friday, January 20, 2017
By <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.laweekly.com/authors/hillel-aron-2127495">Hillel Aro</a>n
High Sobriety bills itself as "cannabis inclusive treatment" and stands in direct contrast to most treatment centers, which preach complete abstinence from mind-altering substances, including alcohol and marijuana. <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://highsobrietytreatment.com/about-us/">According to its website</a>, High Sobriety usesmarijuana to help patients detox from drugs and alcohol, as well as part of the center's continuing care:
At High Sobriety, our first and foremost goal is to eliminate the risk of death from drug use. Cocaine, heroin, meth amphetamine, pharmaceuticals, and other street drugs all have a lethal dose. Leading the death toll, killing more than all others combined, is alcohol. Cannabis has no known lethal dose. The simple truth is eliminating drugs with a lethal dose and using a drug with no lethal dose is a massive improvement, life improving, and life saving. For generations we have been told that cannabis is a gateway drug, at High Sobriety, we believe it is an exit drug.
High Sobriety was founded by Joe Schrank, a recoveringaddict who himself has been abstinent from drugs and alcohol for more than 20 years and who once worked as a counselor at Promises, Malibu. He later started one of New York City's firstsober living homes, <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/fashion/07HIPSTERREHAB.html">which earned him a flattering profile in the <i>New York Times'</i> style section</a>in 2011 (the piece noted the facility's exposed brick walls and Restoration Hardware chairs).
Speaking to the <i>Times, </i>Schrank was critical of West-coast recovery: "Theyre much more upbeat than we are. ... I think the byproduct of their upbeat energy is a real disingenuous, superficial reality that just doesnt exist in New York. It doesnt totally translate culturally. Im attempting to take whats good and translate it to an urban mentality.......
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A new rehab facility opening in West Los Angeles promises to treat drug addiction in a new and exciting way: by giving addicts drugs.
Friday, January 20, 2017
By <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.laweekly.com/authors/hillel-aron-2127495">Hillel Aro</a>n
High Sobriety bills itself as "cannabis inclusive treatment" and stands in direct contrast to most treatment centers, which preach complete abstinence from mind-altering substances, including alcohol and marijuana. <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://highsobrietytreatment.com/about-us/">According to its website</a>, High Sobriety usesmarijuana to help patients detox from drugs and alcohol, as well as part of the center's continuing care:
At High Sobriety, our first and foremost goal is to eliminate the risk of death from drug use. Cocaine, heroin, meth amphetamine, pharmaceuticals, and other street drugs all have a lethal dose. Leading the death toll, killing more than all others combined, is alcohol. Cannabis has no known lethal dose. The simple truth is eliminating drugs with a lethal dose and using a drug with no lethal dose is a massive improvement, life improving, and life saving. For generations we have been told that cannabis is a gateway drug, at High Sobriety, we believe it is an exit drug.
High Sobriety was founded by Joe Schrank, a recoveringaddict who himself has been abstinent from drugs and alcohol for more than 20 years and who once worked as a counselor at Promises, Malibu. He later started one of New York City's firstsober living homes, <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/fashion/07HIPSTERREHAB.html">which earned him a flattering profile in the <i>New York Times'</i> style section</a>in 2011 (the piece noted the facility's exposed brick walls and Restoration Hardware chairs).
Speaking to the <i>Times, </i>Schrank was critical of West-coast recovery: "Theyre much more upbeat than we are. ... I think the byproduct of their upbeat energy is a real disingenuous, superficial reality that just doesnt exist in New York. It doesnt totally translate culturally. Im attempting to take whats good and translate it to an urban mentality.......
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