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The importance of inpatient drug treatment

rehabreferralservices@yahoo.com — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I speak to hundreds of addicts and families weekly and most of the time its really hard for anyone to understand the components of addiction and the importance of inpatient drug treatment versus doing any kind of outpatient program.

Its like a constant struggle people seem to be willing to go through for several month fighting addiction on a daily basis. I guess the biggest thing is most people dont realize the system is set up to fail. I mean, if you sit back and think about it just fo [...]

Drug and alcohol recovery and inpatient rehab

rehabreferralservices@yahoo.com — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100

It really gets hard sometimes to convince people what they need to do to save their own life. People struggle with addiction for years and think that it can be over in just a few days, if they can only get through the rough part of withdrawal. Very few people, unless faced with no other option want to enter an inpatient drug treatment or alcohol rehab program.

People will call the addiction treatment counselors looking for help, but not really, often they do not want to make the s [...]

Getting the rehab help needed

rehabreferralservices@yahoo.com — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

No matter how long a person's addiction has been going on, they still will likely want to avoid getting help as long as possible. Soemthing else to do, don't like that place, and a whole variety of other things spoken and thought which prevent the person from committing themselves to getting help Right NOW.

It is right now that the help is needed. Not latter when many more bad things have happened. Help someone get the help they need right now and not latter. [...]