So even in the area of healing, the buyer need beware. If such a law can decrease the number of citizens killed or crippled by persons driving under the influence of alcohol or other psychoactive substances, then the society has reduced the potential harm to its citizens. They claim that harm reduction encourages abuse and misuse. They assert that the one true answer to this societal problem is abstinence. And they deny the nature of the human being in the process.
People grow and change incrementally.
We know the moment of birth and the moment of death. Changes other than those are nearly impossible to mark in time because they are so gradual, so developmental, and so complex. T his gradual nature of human change is the challenge for all healers. But not so the last question. The reasons for the differences are complex but are primarily related to counselors and laypersons failing to attend to the seriousness of the task at hand when working with alcohol and drug abuse.