Drug Rehab Centers – How to Find a Keeper and Pass on the Lemons
September 25th, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized — Addiction Recovery AuthorThe best drug rehab centers save lives and families. I want you to get your loved ones back. I want you to achieve your goal of a successful rehab.
What are the big pitfalls families fall into when choosing a drug or alcohol rehab program?
If you sent someone to a ‘good’ private drug or alcohol detox and rehab program and they came home with a prescription, counseling appointment that they never attended, and relapsed within 30 days of leaving the center …you found a lemon center.
What happened?
You paid your money, used up your insurance company’s rider for addiction, and got more lies. Makes you want to get mad, but getting even isn’t your goal. You simply want your loved one back.
Why didn’t things work out? Is it you, is it them?
Nope, it may be neither.
A large part of the drug treatment industry is growing in quicksand.
The 5 Biggest Lies Perpetrated By The Drug Rehab Industry
- Addiction is a re-occurring disease that the addict has no control over
- Addiction is a medical/counseling problem that more drugs and lots of counseling appointments one day will fix, maybe
- Addict is not responsible for their actions
- Drugs are necessary to manage addiction
- Addicts are self medicating, but taking the wrong drugs – our drugs are better
Most of you want your loved ones back. You want your son, daughter, husband or wife etc. back with you in the way you remember them best: Fun, happy loving and caring. Addicts don’t want to be addicts. They factually feel totally trapped and hopeless to end addiction.
Rehabilitation means bringing the wonderful person back who you lost to drug or alcohol addiction. This is the true goal of rehab. If they didn’t get that, they haven’t been rehabilitated. Maybe you sent your loved one to a rehab that didn’t have the same goal as you.
Drug and alcohol rehab centers and programs have goals. Rightly, addiction treatment has the goal of rehabilitating the person and ending addiction. Sounds good, right?
PAY ATTENTION: This is NOT the goal of many drug and alcohol abuse programs.
Sometimes the 30 day rehab program objectives are ‘understood’ to mean to better control addiction through managing symptoms through medications and counseling. When does the addiction end? Usually never – based on a 78% to 92% failure rate.
So what happened? Clearly, managing symptoms with medications and counseling or endless meetings are NOT the same as rehabilitated, right?
Get these questions answered fully before you move forward. Avoid the lemons!
How To End Addiction By Choosing The Right Rehab Program
- Does the center publish their success rate, what is it?
- How do they define success? This is a more important question than you may think. It also reveals their philosophy
- Does the center offer / insist upon an after care program that involves ongoing counseling or meetings? If ‘Yes’ is the answer
- Why – didn’t they rehabilitate your loved one on their program? What are they charging you or your insurance company for, baby sitting?
If you read the above questions and think that your loved one still needs ongoing counseling, you’ve been dining on lemons.
Fact: addiction shouldn’t be treated with medications as it isn’t a disease. Addiction is a social problem caused by abusing drugs or alcohol.
Hope this reads really simply. I’ve got more good news for the readers who are still with me.
Professions can be self serving. Industries have objectives. If the industry profits by drug sales and your sending a loved one to see their, hem, representative . . .
Addicts and doctors pushing more drugs to treat addiction aren’t necessarily lying and cheating you. They actually believe they can’t stop drug use and may believe drugs are the only answer. Addicts and addiction doctors are drugging symptoms. They don’t know how to cure addiction. They squirt lemon juice on everything.
I said, ‘Good News’, right?
By using the answers you got above from the questions you asked of the rehab centers you spoke with, you’ll AVOID becoming another family hoping addiction will end one day, maybe.
Set your standards against success, not on-going treatment. Then you’ll know how to find a keeper and soon be sharing your success stories on how you ended addiction.
How do you rate a drug and alcohol detox and rehab program and find one that works?
Go to: Find a Rehab Program that Works
Tibor A. Palatinus, CCDC, is the Director of a Drug / Alcohol Detox and Rehab Consultancy which specializes in Referring Clients to Drug-free Detox and Rehab Programs which End Addiction for Life.
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