Alcohol rehabs don’t work miracles. It’s not as if alcoholics check into alcohol rehab centers and then magically get healed. That would be nice, of course…but no: Not quite. The truth is that alcohol rehabs can only ever be as successful as their patients make them.

Life in alcohol rehabs isn’t easy. It isn’t passive. Patients in alcohol rehabs only get better by virtue of diligence, and hard work; the successful alcohol rehab patient is invariably the one who commits himself to the process, and engages with his own healing. Short of that, no alcohol rehab program in the world can do anything for you.

The best news about alcohol rehabs? They really work. Patients in alcohol rehabs really do get healed: really do rediscover their pride, and their dignity, and all the rest of those emotions that make life worth living in the first place. Beyond that, it’s hard to imagine how any other truth about alcohol rehabs could ever be important.

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