Rehabs break addicts down. No matter who you are, no matter where’ve you’ve been…drug rehab will break down. Rehabs work only and entirely by virtue of personal transformation: by helping addicts remake themselves from the inside out, into people capable of facing the world and themselves without resorting to drug abuse. Rehabs break addicts down for no more or less a reason than that they have to. If you’re going to get healed, you’ve got to start from scratch.

Rehabs, as should probably go without saying, aren’t gentle, and they aren’t fun. Rehabs are and must be home to at least a little suffering, because the sort of change on which sobriety must be predicated never comes easy. Rehabs will test even the strongest will, and try even the staunchest nerve; they will break you down, whoever you are…and I promise that nothing in the world will ever be more worth it. Rehabs save lives. That’s all you need to know, really: Rehabs save lives. Don’t wait to start learning the truth for yourself.

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