There is a commercial that comes on television that really bugs me. This advertisement is for a drug rehabilitation center. The thing about it that bugs me is this line, " you've succeeded before, you can succeed again. " Now wait just a minute. If I went to your treatment center in the past and have to return it's because I didn't succeed the first time! Success means you succeeded in eliminating your addiction! Yet the line is a relapse on your part is not a failure. You succeeded in completing the treatment last time, but now you need to return. We didn't " cure " you, but you succeeded! The advertisement goes on to say, " you don't need to start from the beginning though, you can just start from where you succeeded the last time. " That's right, basically they are saying you came to them because of a drug addiction problem, you completed the program, a success. But you're back because you succeeded and can do so again. Well if that doesn't give me hope and confidence I just don't know what will.
This commercial bugs me because of the narrative they propose. You succeeded at being a failure and so you can succeed again! Just what the heck are you saying? Come pay us " professionals " to listen to your sob story, your inability to control yourselves and we will listen. Heck we will even give you advice, advice like, stop taking drugs! Once you have been here long enough, paid us enough, you will have succeeded. If you come back, it's a success! Not your fault or ours! It's a success. No one to blame, no one needs to be accountable, as long as you can pay, you will succeed.
I'm just sick and tired of reward for failure! That is what I hear in this advertisement for a service. Make no mistake about it, this is a for profit facility. That's why we wouldn't want to " offend " our customers. Hey you are a success every time you pay us! That's what I hear. Doesn't matter how many times you wind up here, you can succeed again. Now if a regular medical doctor should make a mistake, fail to treat you properly, well you should sue him or her for everything you can possibly get! We even have teams of lawyers that will do just that for a cut of the action. But if I go to a treatment center for drug abuse and later continue to abuse drugs, that's a success, no lawsuit here, it's not our fault! You succeeded and can do so again. I don't know I suppose it's more of this " liberal " logic stuff. What's more troubling is that there are those that buy this line. What's even more troubling is that there are people that praise those " successes " as heroic! You didn't succeed. That is why you are back at the drug treatment center! Success isn't making the same mistake over and over again!
Yes there are many reasons why you could wind up abusing drugs. There are times when it happens accidently. Yes you could have been prescribed something and got addicted to that, I'm not saying everyone that gets an addiction is a terrible person. But what I am saying is only you can stop! These drug treatment facilities can't " cure " you. Only you can cure you! Yes there are situations where it takes a professional to get you off of that product due to a physical addiction. You know how that physical addiction begins? By you deciding to take the drug in the first place. That's how it happens. You succeed when you no longer take that drug! That is success!
This commercial bugs me because of the narrative they propose. You succeeded at being a failure and so you can succeed again! Just what the heck are you saying? Come pay us " professionals " to listen to your sob story, your inability to control yourselves and we will listen. Heck we will even give you advice, advice like, stop taking drugs! Once you have been here long enough, paid us enough, you will have succeeded. If you come back, it's a success! Not your fault or ours! It's a success. No one to blame, no one needs to be accountable, as long as you can pay, you will succeed.
I'm just sick and tired of reward for failure! That is what I hear in this advertisement for a service. Make no mistake about it, this is a for profit facility. That's why we wouldn't want to " offend " our customers. Hey you are a success every time you pay us! That's what I hear. Doesn't matter how many times you wind up here, you can succeed again. Now if a regular medical doctor should make a mistake, fail to treat you properly, well you should sue him or her for everything you can possibly get! We even have teams of lawyers that will do just that for a cut of the action. But if I go to a treatment center for drug abuse and later continue to abuse drugs, that's a success, no lawsuit here, it's not our fault! You succeeded and can do so again. I don't know I suppose it's more of this " liberal " logic stuff. What's more troubling is that there are those that buy this line. What's even more troubling is that there are people that praise those " successes " as heroic! You didn't succeed. That is why you are back at the drug treatment center! Success isn't making the same mistake over and over again!
Yes there are many reasons why you could wind up abusing drugs. There are times when it happens accidently. Yes you could have been prescribed something and got addicted to that, I'm not saying everyone that gets an addiction is a terrible person. But what I am saying is only you can stop! These drug treatment facilities can't " cure " you. Only you can cure you! Yes there are situations where it takes a professional to get you off of that product due to a physical addiction. You know how that physical addiction begins? By you deciding to take the drug in the first place. That's how it happens. You succeed when you no longer take that drug! That is success!
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