Making Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Work for You

Once the alcohol/drug rehabilitation patient is in the treatment process, It is important to understand: “You can only get well if you want to.”  Successful alcohol/drug rehabilitation begins with the patient who plays an active role in his or her own healing and recovery. Quality of life and sometimes life itself are on the line here. Before you can get sober, it helps greatly when you come to understand how important sobriety is to you.  This can happen through a sudden spiritual awarness or a personal revelation or even by virtue of an effective intervention. The bottom line, when you really get down to it, is that rehabilitation is and can only be an intensely intimate undertaking. Lasting and meaningful recovery can only begin with you.

So there's no confusion:  Rehabilitation is not a spectator sport. You can't check into a Treatment Providers facility and then simply wait to get better; you can't enroll into a program and let the doctors do the rest. On the contrary, getting well is always a function of the energy and effort put forth by the patients...and no addict ever got sober  without suffering a little a long the way.
Remember, it may not be easy. Rehabilitation, when it's conducted as it should be, is bound to test even the heartiest patient. Even successful rehabilitation does and must entail a litany of physical and emotional costs. But make no mistake: It's worth it. Effective rehabilitation that helps you achieve real and lasting sobriety, is the most important thing you'll ever do. Some battles are too important not to fight, THIS IS ONE OF THEM.

Your new life, sober, is just a phone call away. The NRRN agents are standing by now. The only wrong decision about alcohol/drug rehabilitation is not to pursue it at all.
Sincerely,