In a drug and alcohol rehab program there can be literally hundreds of things to do and change. Many are important and a few are even more important. What is the MOST important activity to success in a drug rehab program? Let me explain a little bit more. Weight loss is ceratainly talked and read about a lot. There must be several million diets out there. There has to be more abdominal exercisers on T.V. than just about everything else.
Do you know what the critical activity is for weight loss? What is the one thing that if you do has the GREATEST correlation with success? Working out? Cutting out fat? No on both accounts. The single activity that apparently has the greatest relationship with long term weight loss is DAILY weigh-ins and journeling that number.
Do we even know what the critical activity for drug and alcohol rehab is? It may be something as simple as the equivalent of the "weigh in". What if we had daily urine testing, with documentation. Not for the whole world to see, but you and your counselor. Not weekly, or at random, but DAILY. If would be much harder for a single use or lapse to turn into a binge or full blown relapse. Daily testing could also be used at the beginning to see if drugs that stay in the system for longer periods are actually decreasing in concentration. Like watching you weight go down so to speak.
I am not saying this is the critical activity. I am suggesting we still do not know what the critical activity is yet. Drug rehab is still a best not the most precise science. This may be a step towards derceasing that.
