The best alcohol treatment is personal alcohol treatment. Addiction is an intimate disease, after all, and addiction treatment has to go forward on intimate terms. An alcohol rehab program that isn’t tailored to your unique individual interests can’t help you get sober. It’s as simple as that. You don’t need anyone to tell you that [...]

Private alcohol rehabs can only be successful to the extent that they’re staffed by competent, compassionate professionals. People matter in the alcohol rehabilitation process. If you’re going to get better, it’s going to be because you get the care you need from counselors and therapists you can trust. The practical implication, obviously, is that you [...]

During my 90 days at alcohol rehab I experienced more ups and downs than I could ever hope to include in a short write-up. There were the good days and there were the bad, but in the end they all added up to precisely what I came for: alcohol rehabilitation. Alcoholism had left me in [...]

It seems so tame, a glass of wine at dinner, a beer on a hot summer day. It’s part of our culture, right? For a lot of people, it is. For a lot of people, for the alcoholic, its not. People that suffer from alcoholism, or alcohol addiction, can’t just enjoy one glass with [...]

Now, if I were to tell you that I didn’t believe that alcohol treatment programs were successful in helping people turn their lives around then I’d be probably be lying. Actually, there’s no probably about it, I would be lying. The reason why is that alcohol treatment programs really work. Just ask anyone who’s been [...]

 I got alcohol rehab once. It didn’t take. I was twenty-eight and I thought I knew what was what. I didn’t need some alcohol treatment egghead telling me how to quit drinking.
I was drunk four months after I checked out of the alcohol treatment center.
I got alcohol treatment twice. I was forty-one and [...]