The best reason to go to a drug or alcohol rehab program is the you truly want to change and are willing to do whatever it takes to make this change happen. Many people go to rehab to get family members or employers off their back, but they don’t really want to quit. Some people go because they want to stop using just enough to gain some control back in their life but don’t really want to quit drugs or alcohol entirely. Some go to rehab because it is a choice of rehab or jail. Again they may not really want to quit, but it beats the alternative.

Some individuals that go to rehabs for reasons not of the own choosing do succeed and become sober but many do not. The highest success rates are obviously with those individuals who have decided that drugs and alcohol are destroying the quality of their life and they are unwilling to live another day in their old patterns. Those are the ones who get the best bang for their buck, and make the most change. If you really don’t want to change the best drug rehab program in the world will still come up short.

Some say the success rates of rehab programs are poor in the long term. This may be true. It may also be true that if you were able to measure the rates for those who showed up truly because they wanted to change and not because some external force was forcing them to change the picture might look somewhat brighter. People who change only because of external force in a rehab program tend to revert to their previous behavior once that force is removed. Rehabs offer a lot to someone really seeking treatment, they offer a lot less to those who really don’t want to be there.

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