If a month at rehab can teach you what you need to know to get off, and stay off, drugs and alcohol...isn't it worth it? Learning to live without abuse isn't going to be easy, and there are no shortcuts to success; you need to take the time and make the effort to get better, and stay better. I've been to rehab twice, and even though I needed to go back a second time, I've never considered either rehab a failure, and I'm just grateful I can enjoy my life, and my family, without the pain and suffering of addiction.

Too good to be true sounding success rates published by many of the nation's rehab facilities may sound impressive, but do the advertised success rates have any basis in reality? 75%...85%...are these types of recovery statistics really even possible, and how can we know whether the relapse rates as advertised by different drug rehab programs are accurate representations of reality?

The National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has determined that there is a "lost decade" between the age of onset of alcohol abuse or alcohol dependency and the age of first treatment.