Always on the lookout for information about drug and alcohol rehab centers, I watched a show about a different type of rehab the other night.  The place was call Brookhaven and it is in New York.  It is one of the very few places that take and treat very, very obese.  In many ways a lot of the issues they face are the same as most other rehabs dealing with addictive behavior.

I throughly enjoy the show, it comes on weekly.  It is hard not to get drawn in by the effort of the people who work there as well as the struggles of the clients.  There was one thing which I found puzzling though.  I know you cannot draw any direct correlation between the issues of the obese and drug and alcohol rehab but still I couldn't figure out why they did not lock the door.  They showed repeatedly on closed circuit T.V. clients ordering in fast food and having it delivered.  This allowed some of the clients to drift futher into a crisis situation.

Rehabs should be safe from the temptation of why someone is in rehab.  Once things are under some control then maybe halfway house situation would allow the doors to be unlocked and have free movement.  At a rehab though, the doors should be locked and everything going in needs to be inspected.  I'm sure they have good reasons for what they do at Brookhaven, but it just seemed stopping the importation of junk food into the place would help some people.  A real interesting show though, and my hat goes off to the staff and clients who let us peek in their lives and learn from their experience.

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