We always get asked about how much time is the right length of stay in a drug rehab center?   How do you arrive at the right numbers of days?  Is there a really accurate way to judge the severity of the addiction?  Does a more severe addiction always require a longer stay?

There are two things that have to be accomplished in a drug rehab center.  One is to stay long enough to actually get a good period of clean time under your belt.  The other is to stay long enough to learn the skills.  Learn them well enough to trust them.  Trust them enough to use them on your toughest days.  This is why longer programs have better success rates.  As humans, we can only learn things at a certain rate.  If we bombard someone with more information than they can learn, they hear it, but they do not remember it. 

Learning takes time.  Practice takes time.  The time it takes to be successful sometimes may be more dependent on the speed of learning, than the severity of the addiction.  Stay the course.  Don’t take short cuts. 

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