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Drug and Alcohol Centers Information is dedicated
to helping persons with alcohol and drug related problems
access reputable and ethical addiction treatment centers regardless
of age, gender, race, religion, their current financial situation
or legal status. Reputable and ethical drug and alcohol centers
are available to everyone that wants recovery regardless of
your status. It will require some research and foot work to
locate the appropriate drug and alcohol treatment center for
your particular situation. Hopefully, this web site can help
you save some time and provide you with some of the necessary
information to avoid the pitfalls of choosing a center that's
not appropriate for you. Always keep in mind during your search
that, drug and alcohol centers are just like any other business
in respect to quality of services that they provide. Just
as there are good auto repair shops and some not so good,
the same is true with drug and alcohol treatment centers.
Inflated
Success Rates
Do not invest much of your valuable time listening
to a sales pitch by a treatment center representative that
includes an unusually high success rate as part of their pitch,
especially if it seems like it's the strength of their pitch.
There are centers that boast success rates from the upper
70% range into the high 90s. They are extremely vague about
how these statistics are calculated. The long and the short
of it is, that the percentage of alcoholics and drug addicts
that get clean and sober in rehab and stay clean for any length
of time after they leave treatment, is much lower than even
seventy percent, much lower. The truth is, the centers that
are trying very hard to convince you that they have a success
rate that is anywhere near 70% are probably attempting to
begin a relationship with you by being less than honest with
you. They are actually, probably going to great lengths to
deceive you. Sure, no treatment center is going to volunteer
a low success rate, but if they go out of their way to convince
you of an unusually high success rate, it's almost like a
boxer leading with his chin.
I would love to know what they base these statistics on or
how they've arrived at these numbers, but no one is ever been
able to share their magic formula with me. Are they talking
about how many people completed their 30, 60 or 90-day program,
how many stayed clean and sober for a year or two or five
years after treatment? The success of alcohol and drug treatment
centers should be measured by what happens to the clients
after they leave the treatment centers, not how well they've
done in the confined, sterile environment of treatment centers.
Here's the problem with measuring the success of clients
after they've finished treatment. I've done some alumni tracking
for treatment centers that I've worked for in the past and
any number that's anywhere near accurate is almost impossible
to arrive at without putting Lo-Jack devices on the alumni.
First, they scatter all over the globe when their treatment
ends and they don't stay where they intended to live upon
discharge, so you can only find a small number of them. Second,
this small number of them is not going to tell you, the alumni
tracker, the truth about a relapse that may or may not have
occurred since their discharge. It's just not very likely
they are going to come forward with the information for a
number of reasons. Some of these reasons are embarrassment,
probation or parole officers, parents, wives, husbands, employers
and the fact that they just don't trust anyone with this information,
especially the alumni tracker, because he's not someone they
got familiar with while they were in treatment.
So, if while investigating a treatment center for yourself
or a loved one, the admissions person attempts to convince
you of what sounds like an unusually high success rate, quickly
remember that you had a previous commitment you'd forgotten
about, get out of there as quickly as you can and move on
to the next drug and alcohol treatment center on your list.
The drug and alcohol treatment centers that tell you they
don't keep those statistics or they do but, can't be certain
of their accuracy, are the centers you should be interested
in. Drug and alcohol centers should present their clients
with the necessary information and support required to get
sober and maintain sobriety. They shouldn't take credit for
getting anyone sober, nor the blame for a client's relapse.
I like to think if one puts 100% of his or her available
effort into his or her recovery each day, the chances of staying
clean and sober are about 100% for that day. Success in recovery
is a personal thing. Even if drug and alcohol treatment centers
could keep accurate statistics of former clients, one still
couldn't accurately calculate the odds or chances of the next
person staying sober based on someone else's efforts in treatment.
It's really about "What am I willing to do today and
for how many consecutive days?"
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