By the time clients get to alcohol and drug rehab, most times the addiction has been going on a very long time.  Always, at least a time frame of years and more often then not even a decade or decades.  This leads to the questions of how and why do addictions go on so long before treatment is sought?  Do people really need to destroy their life before they will consider rehab?

The first question boils down to the truth, or more precisely the lack of truth.  When drugs or alcohol start to become a problem is someone’s life nobody really wants to hear about it.  They are uncomfortable discussing it.  They readily accept the stories and manipulations used to explain the deterioating situation and the progressively poor behavior.  If a family lives in truth and is comfortable discussing truth, addictions most likely would not progress to the destructive stage seen when most clients arrive at rehab.

The second question is obvious.  No, you don’t have to destroy your life before you can successfully seek help and move past addiction.  “Hitting Bottom” is a subjective term that is moved repeatedly as behavior deteriorates.  By confonting the truth and bad behavior early, much pain and suffering for all those concerned can and should be avoided.

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