Inevitability

When an addict is in rehab for the first time, they are told that there are only three possible outcomes of their addiction: Jail, Death or sobriety. And the addict will inevitably tell his/her loved ones of this as if it were a life changing enlightenment. The loved ones will tell their friends how the addict has finally come to his/her senses and thank goodness for the people in the rehab. And then the addict will relapse, if they ever actually had any sobriety in the first place, and then possibly this cycle will repeat over and over and over. And the loved ones will decide that the rehabs were a waste of time, and only introduced the addict to new and improved ways of obtaining and using the drugs through their interaction with others of a similar ilk. The nicely tied package of possible outcomes of the addiction will now be summarily dismissed......because they know there is another outcome, and they are right in the middle of it......an outcome called living hell. But what no one really listened to was that these three things were outcomes not processes and the end result could occur any day or it could occur years and years away. The point being lost? ONE will occur....Sobriety, JAIL or DEATH. The only question is how much destruction, how much lost innocence, how much pain will be caused first.