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.

Avoiding rehab for financial reasons is shortsighted. Even if you have no insurance coverage, and even if you are required to pay full price (most rehabs will work with patients in financial need) a month of rehab is not likely to cost as much as a few months of drug abuse, and once sober, you'll perform better at work as well. Getting sober should never be about doing better financially, but if you need to look at the bottom line...recovery always pays off.

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?

Making the decision to get help takes you closer than anything else you'll ever do to getting sober and getting better; but even once you've decided that you need residential drug or alcohol rehab treatment, you still have an enormous availability of choice as to where to get it, and thus a difficult decision. For people wanting a quick transition into rehab and into a better life, the many options available brings unwanted stress into an already difficult time. The deciding factors may include location, price, philosophies, and probably also treatments offered; and when evaluating the last of those, it's easy to wonder how important seemingly frivolous programs such as yoga or meditation really are to your likelihood of recovery. After all, wouldn’t your time be better spent in therapy?