With all the choice available, it's easy to get overwhelmed when trying to select a quality rehab facility. You desperately want to make the right choice, and because achieving sobriety is so important, the pressure to choose correctly can become very stressful. The perfect facility for one might be a disaster for another, and as such you need to choose the facility that's the best match for the addict and their personality. As follows are 8 criteria I've used when evaluating rehab facilities and these criteria may offer you a starting point when thinking about how to pick a rehabilitation facility. Remember that any rehab is better than no rehab, and by taking a bit of time, and selecting with care and the needs of the addict in mind, you'll almost certainly make a great choice.

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.

• If I am poor and addicted to drugs, and want help but do not break the law, I probably can't get state funded drug treatment.
• If I am poor and addicted to drugs, and don't want help, and get caught stealing cars - the state will pay for my drug treatment.

Make sense?

Drug courts are great - but they sure have created a distorted reward system for a whole lot of law abiding people in need.