Drug rehabs can only be effective if they encourage and empower their patients
Drug rehabs don’t work…don’t exist…without drug rehab patients. It sounds obvious, of course; stupid, even. But it’s the truth…and a truth that all too often goes overlooked in the drug treatment process. Drug rehabs are only ever successful to the extent that they engage their patients in the healing process; drug rehab that works, in the end, has to be that which is driven by recovering addicts themselves. Again, drug rehabs and drug rehab programs are only ever what their patients make of them. And if you want to get sober for good, you’ve got to be ready take charge of your own recovery.
Drug rehabs, so there’s no mistake, do very certainly play a vital role in drug treatment and drug recovery. The best drug rehabs, though, are facilitators, not actors. Drug rehab healing must ultimately be a product of a patient’s own effort; sobriety, you might say, can never be imposed with a topdown approach. Drug rehabs can only be effective if they encourage and empower their patients. Short of that, no drug rehab program on the planet can ever help an addict get all the way to where he needs to go.
