In drug and alcohol rehab, or just about anything else in life, most times you don’t have to re-invent the wheel. Just about every situation we come across, someone, somewhere has already faced it or something like it. Drug addiction treatment is a lot like that. However, every once in a while you come across something which matchs so perfectly you swear it must have been wriiten for specifically addiction, even though it wasn’t.

In Dr. Henry Cloud’s book called Integrity I came across a passage about life which is just so perfect about rehab. He makes the point rather convincingly in life you have the choice of hard, easy versus easy, hard.

“Those are our only two options. We can do the hard work of facing a problem and making the necessary changes to resolve it, and then we will have the easy road of having things right. But the hard comes first and must be endured. Or we can take the easy route first and avoid fixing a problem. Then as sure as the sun comes up tomorrow, the hard life will follow. And it will last a lot longer and a lot harder than if we had chosen the hard way first.” (Cloud,Henry, Integrity, Harper Collins, 2006, p.200)

This in a nutshell and perfectly expressed, is the decision faced by everyone contemplating drug rehab or in rehab. Are you willing to pay the price of today for a better tommorow? It past days I have talked about feeding your mind a healthy diet of good information. Well you couldn’t make a better choice than this book. You also couldn’t make a better choice than choosing the “hard” today by doing the work necessary to have an “easy” tomorrow.

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