Some clients are really quite easy and simple about drug rehab. They phone, they tell you about their problem, and inquire about cost of rehab. They phone back a day or two later and tell you they are coming in. This is a small percentage of the clients we see though. In most cases it is a third party arranging the drug rehab. It is a parent, brother, sister, spouse, or even a boss. Sometimes it is even all of tose at once. Throw in the odd lawyer and parole officer and you have a lot of concerned and stressed people trying to coordinate an event.
When you are getting a loved one in drug rehab you are not really in the best frame of mind. You are tired and stressed. You are worried for their health and safety. You are trying to arrange finances. Putting it mildly your plate is full. Add in talking to several drug rehab centers, andtrying to figure out which program will be the best choice for the money you have available. This is a recipe for miscomunication if there ever was one. Add into this an addicted person, consuming drugs and alcohol, probably at a higher rate than normal, because they know they are going to quit soon. The last binge before the diet type of thing.
This recipe of stress and tension will lead to a few mistakes. So if you are a client in a drug rehab center, and everything is not "exactly" as it was descibed to you, you may want to stop and think a bit before you accuse someone of misleading you. Those around you in your life and the people at the rehab center are all doing the very best they can to get a safe place for you to change. They did it under tense moments. Nobody got up one morning and said, "I'm going to trick so and so into a rehab that is not what they expected." Everyone was trying to help, through phone calls, e-mails, faxes flights and all the other myriad of things that had to be done before you got there. Cut poeple some slack. They are the same people who have cut you a lot of slack in your behavior over the past few years.
