how addicted do you have to be to go to a rehab? does it have to be the type of addiction where you have to detox and go through withdrawal?
cause my friends dad went to rehab cause you use to take sedatives or painkillers(one or the other) every day. but not frequently enough to get physicaly dependent on one substance so he would alternate throughout the week. and he ended up living at a rehab center for about 3 months.
also what can you do and eat at rehab? and what are living conditions like?
BTW would a rehab program help you find a proper living situation outside of rehab as well as help you find a job?
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19-Dec-2009
you would eat whatever they served that day. its like a hospital, they try and give you healthy meals, they have menus. as for living conditions, they would vary depending on which rehab center you went to. you could probably call the ones in your area and ask them all the info that you need to know. they could also tell you if they help with job placement while you are at it. good luck to you.
It doesn’t matter how addicted you are, what matters is if you have cash or good insurance. If you have neither, go to Social Services and see if you can get Medicaid.
I’ve been to four different rehabs, all they did for me was take me out of my environment for 28-31 days. Once I got help for the depression that fueled my drinking, it became a non-issue.
Food was high school cafeteria quality, fair to eatable.
If you can’t function without a drug you are a candidate for rehab. Rehab daily activities should include various therapy sessions and brief walks on the grounds. Food should be plentiful and nutritious with some allowance for the sugar cravings alcoholics feel in detox. Romance between patients is prohibited, focus should only be getting better.
Ideally a social worker should insure the patient leaves to a proper living situation, a job and is setup with aftercare to deal with mental health issues that encouraged the addiction. But as the Walgreen’s commercial says, we don’t live in that place called “Perfect”.
Community Mental Health programs are being cut to the bone in our sketchy economy. An alcoholic suicidal man in my town was released twice in the same night from the ER, first time he came in drunk and suicidal threatening to cut his own throat. The Doctors didn’t believe him and didn’t like his attitude so they booted him out. He went four blocks away and slashed his caratoid artery in the Sherrif’s Dept parking lot. The Sherrifs took him back to ER, he was stitched up and was kept for evaluation by Community Mental Health who couldn’t find a bed for him in any facility. He was released. Hope he doesn’t go on a bender this weekend and kill a kid while he’s driving drunk.