Drug and alcohol rehab centers sometimes feel like they are treating two groups of people.  The clients in the rehab program and the family at home outside the rehab program.  In reality a family unit is something that is non-divisible so to a certain extent this is to be expected.  Families stick together and families protect one another.  These are good things.  In a rehab program lots of time this leads to some miscommunication and some frustration.

Families just want to help their loved one in a drug rehab program get better.  They worry, they care.  When they talk to their loved one in rehab they ar constantly trying to read between the lines.  Are they O.K.?  Are the changing?  Is the program a good one?  So phone calls take on a greater importance that before.  This always leads to phone calls of concern back to the rehab staff about anything they think is not right.  Again this is fine.  However maybe I can save you some worry.  Almost 99% of the time if you hear about a rule, or a situation that doesn't make total sense, it is about safety.  For everyone to be safe requires a lot of work and a lot of carefully thought out policies.  It doesn't happen by accident.

Most rules are for the one time in a hundread somebody does something quite unwise.  For the other 99 situations the rules may look quite absurd.  So try to look over some of the quirky parts of some rules.  Do you want you family member safe and removed from the temptation from drugs and alcohol 100% of the time?  Of course you do.  So do the people in the drug rehab. They want everyone safe 100% of the time.   

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