mans many people find rief hypnosis, nicotine substites, and old-faionewillpor. th ran me through, i would call it a test, where i saw a film where the people were sming crack, just like i would do-- go sit on the side of the bed. that was all right until they showed me-- had a box there-- and i looked in this box-- and i read that i wod see some things relating to the drug thing-- i looked in the box, and upset me, you kno it really upset me, but it helped me, also, because i said i'm going to beat this. treatment of substance abuse is successful. it's just that there's a notion out there in the public consciousness that it isn't because they see so many people who get into trement and then later see themelapse. ths the nature a chronic disease. it's completely unrealistic to expect soone to go into treatment and be cured the way a person who has pneumonia can get an antibioti anbe cured. so awith many psychogical disorders, experts talk treatment, not cure the mo common siation is, first,o get the drug out of the pern's system. and finally, a maintenance period