In my unscientific and informal methods of tracking the calls we receive the requests for free drug rehab just continue to grow. I have been also asking what sort of budget, could you really afford if you had to pay something. It seems most of the people who call looking for free drug and alcohol rehab might be capable of paying around $2500 to $3000 in total. This is important to realize this amount. What these clients are saying, essentially is, I’m not looking for a handout.

They are willing to pay something towards their treatment. It is unfortunately not enough to get into a lot of drug rehab centers. Apparently a lot of drug rehab centers are telling people to check around a look for scholarships at rehabs. I get asked everyday if I know of where these are. I wish I did. Can anyone help us out there? Also maybe the drug rehabs that are recommending these free drug rehab scholarships could tell clients where they are. Maybe it seems like a polite way of getting someone off the phone if they are asking for free drug rehab, but it may be a waste of time if they are searching for something that does not really exist.

We are looking at ways to offer drug rehab at a much more affordable price. By offering a few less perks and still offering the core program will be able to give clients the chance to attend our program for a savings of 25% less than our previous price. We are hoping this will along more clients to seek the treatment they want. I am still willing to pass along any ideas people have about free drug rehab. Any creative ways you found to finance your own treatment or the treatment of someone else would also be greatly appreciated.

Maybe to deal with the issue of getting enough free drug rehab programs could be dealt with by a change of model, and by earlier interception of the problem. Is there a way to effectively treat addiction while the person is still in their home? Where does the concept of "Rock Bottom" come from? There is no mention of rock bottom is any of the twelve steps. No physician would ever say, we cannot treat that man for heart disease. We have to wait until he is 200 pound overweight, and he has to have at least 3 heart attacks. He is only 150 pounds overweight. He has only had 2 heart attacks.

There has to be some way to deal with and intercept addiction earlier. Just because we have not found a cost effective way to stop addiction at a very early stage does not mean it is not there. We have many effective self help programs for at home. There must be a way to combine the power of the internet and workbooks to effective find affordable solutions to all the different types of addiction. This is going to be especially true with addiction to pornography on the internet. This will be a problem where people are really going to isolate and be filled with shame and embarrassment. The constant flow of e-mail we get seeking free drug rehab will not go away. The government does not have the money. We have to get creative to solve this.

There will likely never be enough free drug rehab to go around. This is also true for low cost and very affordable drug rehab. There are some very likely reasons for this. One is, without massive government financing, there will just not be enough places in free drug rehabs. Likely with a public system the quality will be diluted and effectiveness will be decreased. These are interesting questions but the fact remains, for today and the foreseeable future, there is just not enough free or affordable drug rehab.

This leaves the only real option for some families is to creatively finance a stay in drug rehab. Start with the cheapest source of credit you can find, and spread the load as a family. At a meeting of everyone who is willing to help, try to divide the amount up, and let people take care of their commitment. Decide on a date to have it in place by. Start with your lowest interest rate source. Lines of credit or a home equity loan is the best bet. Second in credit cards and last is finance companies.

Make sure you come to an agreement in writing. Put down if you expect the client going to rehab to make any repayment, and what are the terms. If you expect them to pay back ½ of the money write it down. Also write down clearly, under no circumstances is the client to leave the program early, and if they do what the consequences with the family will be.

Clearly state what you expect the client to be responsible for after rehab. Even though it is a crisis, that does not mean you are not allowed to write things down and sign them. The “just get them in rehab” plan usually leaves a lot of confusion and misunderstandings later. It is O.K. to borrow money for rehab. It is probably poor judgement to do it with assumptions that we can work it out later, when everything is hopefully back to normal.

Last night I had another call from someone at the end of their rope. They were tired of drug addiction and abuse. They had called a lot of centers. No one had been able to help them. I suggested the site www.choosehelp.com. It has an e-book I have recommended many, many times. It is only 20 bucks. It has hundreds and hundreds of listings of free and almost free drug and alcohol rehab centers. The problem is this person didn’t even have the 20 bucks. When I suggested the Salvation Army, they hung up.

As you may have noticed, I have created a category in our blog, called free drug rehab. If you send me anything that is free to help people, I will post it in there. There is really not a site or source that people can go and look to see all the free stuff in addiction that is available. If you know of these sites, please tell me and I will post them. We get several calls each and every day with a request for free drug rehab. Please help us fill those requests.

My frustrating search for free and low cost drug rehab programs continues.  It is easy to see why those who absolutely need free drug rehab services continue to call from one place to another.  If you type free drug rehab as a search into google, the first page has no listings at all that are free.  There are four free drug rehab consultations.  There are toll free numbers.  There are rehabs that will make you drug free.  Apparently google is unable to sort out the actual drug rehab programs that might be free.  The second page of listings is not much better.  Two of the listings actually deal with free drug rehab, the other eight so not.  The rest are back to the free drug rehab consultations again.

The point I am trying to make here is that if google cannot find these resources with all their computing power, how is the average person with a severe drug addiction and few or no resources supposed to find them?  The only way I can see, is if we all start posting these places in our websites so they can be found.  If everyone with a website with material on drug rehab, gave a link or two showing where some free drug rehab programs could be found, then google and the other search engines could find them and a lot of pain and frustration from families in this situation could be prevented.  So if you know of some that I have not mentioned, come on, what are you waiting for?  Tell me, or somebody else.

When people call in the quest to find a free drug rehab center for a friend or family member, the degree of frustration is very high.  Often it is a client themselves who is calling around looking for a solution.  Their addiction has drained all the resources they had and yet need to find money for treatment.  They are stuck in this cycle of they can afford to stay addicted, sort of, but they cannot afford to get clean. 

Weird because the cost of a drug habit is MORE than the cost of the solution.  It is just that you can buy one hours worth of drugs at a time.  The smallest increment of drug rehab treatment you can buy is 1 month.  Because the drug dealers have easier "payments" people stay addicted.  So maybe we don't even need Free drug rehab.  Maybe we only need pay as you go by the day drug rehab.  I know that is a silly statement, and yet I am trying to make the point that if we could be more creative in arranging payments, a lot more people would stop abusing drugs and alcohol.  Most people are not really looking for free drug rehab.  They are looking for a way to attend drug rehab and make payments in the realm the can actually handle.  If you think about it, that is not really an unresonable request.

On my never ending quest for free drug and alcohol facilities I have received another source of information.  It is specifically for women with children.  It is particularily difficult for someone trying to raise and support a family on their own and deal with an addiction.  But what could have more impact on our society then helping moms with addiction, so they can raise and be real role models in their kid's lives.  Cycles of addiction and abuse tend to be passed from generation to generation.  Click here for information on State funded California drug rehab programs.

The Rest of the California State Funded free drug and alcohol rehab programs are also available.  Click here for the rest of the information.  This is a listing of all the free and low cost drug rehab services availble to men, women and children.  Anybody with more information on free rehab, just let me know and I will gladly pass it on.

Free drug rehab or very low cost drug rehab infromation is still needed.  I have gotten a few leads but there has to be more information out there.  We average around 5 phones calls a day looking for free drug and alcohol rehab services.  One other good source is Oxford House.  These are self run free drug and alcohol free rehab centers.  They are found in many locations across the country.  They have over 600 locations and around 5000 beds available.  They have a relapse rate posted on their website of around 20%.  All in all very impressive for a low cost self run organization.  On their website you can look for present vacancies available for free rehab beds available.  Click here to find out all about the Oxford Houses and their great program of free and affordable drug rehab.  By the way if anyone out there knows of more Free Drug Rehab available, let me know and I will keep passing it along.