Arriving at a drug and alcohol rehab most clients would not rate their teamwork and level of trust high on their scale of skills. Almost everyone would think the ability to raise these skills would be essential to helping battle addiction and lead to a more successful stay at rehab. Again these two skills can often be in use but unfortunately not to the benefit of the clients staying in a drug rehab.

The rules against possession and use of drugs or alcohol are universal in the vast majority of rehabs. All rehabs have some form of search and security to prevent contraband of this sort from entering the treatment center. However still drugs and alcohol can still make it into a rehab. The results are often disasterous. Clients slip and may relapse. Often clients are evicted immediately from the rehab. How is this possible?

Most times it involves teamwork and trust, but both used without integrity. One person under most situations cannot get drugs and alcohol into a center. It usually requires 2 or 3 and even sometimes more people to “beat” the security at a rehab. The drugs have to be ordered and dropped somwhere near the center. Security must be distracted or a diversion of some sort has to take place while someone slips through and picks up the drop. It then has to be smuggled into the center. Often when these drugs or alcohol are consumed someone must be the “lookout”. This requires a lot of planning. This requires teamwork. This requires trust between the members of the group. A lot of work to destroy the safety of a rehab.

Many skills and traits, if not coupled with courage and intregrity will actually help to keep and addiction going. Again this is why rehabs must work harder than ever to keep an enviroment safe. Rehabs must work the give the space for the voice or what is right to start to be heard in a client’s heart. Improved skills are a wonderful thing. Skills have to be welded to a strong and unshakeable sense of right and wrong. It is always the best place to start.

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