There are many things to do in drug and alcohol rehab.  Sometimes with the number of issues and tasks to do in a rehab program, it may seem overwhelming.  This might lead to the tendancy of doing "good enough".  By this I mean doing just enough work to get by.  Doing just enough work at the rehab to get your counselors and family off your back.  Doing just enough in the rehab program to fell like you have tried.

There is always a price to be paid with doing "just enough".  Very often it means re-visiting a problem later again for complete resolution.  It is like if you have too much debt.  If you deal with the problem just enough to make all your minimum payments, it may seem to the world you are back in control.  No more late notices.  Perhaps you are even getting new offers of more credit.  But there is a problem still lurking.  If you are just handling the minimum payments you are not really paying down your debt.  Sooner or later you will be surprised by a new unexpected expense.  Then you start missing payments and you are back in the same boat.

Relapse in many instances can be traced back to just doing "just enough" in a drug and alcohol rehab center.  Just enough work on a relapse prevention plan, is not enough.  If you don't come up with some bulletproof pland for the first few months.  The work you do in a drug rehab is not like other work in your like.  A drug and alcohol rehab program is the same as building the foundation for a new building.  A poor foundation will not show up until there is a bad storm.  Then the house will break apart.  When a strorm arises in your life, without a well constructed relapse prevention plan, you will most likely get in trouble.  So "good enough" is really not.  Drug rehab deserves the best effort you can possibly come up with.

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