With all due respect, you've been immersed in the worst of the worst addicts for 28 years. It is not exactly representative of what the "drug and alcohol culture" is about. If I go through life having a glass of red wine with my prime rib on Friday nights, I may be part of the "drug and alcohol culture" but I'm probably not going to wind up in your facility.
Jesus turned water into wine so he wasn’t against having a little wine with dinner. Day after day stupored drunkenness or drug addictions to the point of family neglect or abuse, unemployment, is another matter...and that is what I have become hardened towards! (or the little lies families will say when asked why they didn’t tell the doctor of their loved one’s alcohol use...of just a “drink or two at night so it can’t possibly be why uncle George is in DT’s” Except the fact that the body gets habituated to those 1 or 2 drinks a night and can start to react when it doesn’t get those 1 or 2 drinks...which later on becomes the “admitted”(by a worried wife who is sick of having to lie for a secret drunk)to 1/2 empty fifth hidden under the couch or the six packs out in the work shop.)