Drug Rehab May Be Helped by a Change of Environment

I recently worked with a man whose daughter needed help with her heroin addiction. She had been in and out of detox several times and had no success with any of the local programs. Regardless, she had taken it upon herself to check in, once again, to a detox program that only lasted five days, and she was due to be released in two. But this time he insisted she follow up with an inpatient drug rehab. He called me to see what options were available in his area.

Having tried many of them, he knew that finding a local successful drug rehab would be difficult - unfortunately, most of the programs close to home were government–run, short term treatments that he already knew had some of the lowest success rates.

We agreed she needed to try something different, and we discussed changing her environment so she could focus on herself – without the distractions of being close to home. He was nervous about sending her very far, but he also knew it would handle those distractions. Being in a different city would also make it difficult for her to walk out while still in treatment and confronting the issues that got her into drug rehab in the first place. We finally settled on a drug rehab facility in California that offered a comprehensive approach in a safe environment that was very conducive to her recovery. Dad was very pleased to find exactly what he was looking for so quickly, and she checked herself in.

He called back the other day to offer his thanks, and to tell me his daughter had been doing wonderfully. As a result of the change in environment, and finally finding a successful drug rehab program, his daughter now has a real chance of recovery.