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Living with an active alcoholic and/or drug addict can be exhausting, heartbreaking, and extremely frustrating.  It would seem that all of the social codes around us tell us that if our loved one is in trouble, it's up to us to help them.  It's important to be able to step back from these situations in any way that we can, because the truth is, it's not up to us, although there are things we can do to protect ourselves.  If rehab is an option, and if it's becoming an obvious choice, there are things that you can do to help move the situation in that direction.  But remember that it's impossibl

There are many things that run through the minds of people when they are considering entering into a substance abuse treatment program.  Some people are nervous, while some people are looking forward to getting their lives back, and getting those lives back on track.  There are many in-house long term treatment centers located throughout the United States, but one of the problems that many people face is the ability to afford such treatment.  Many twelve week programs can cost anywhere from thirty thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars, and for most people that is just too much for them to

Addiction is a very complex thing, and to find ways to evaluate it according to definitive and quantitative standards is just as complex.  It's not possible, then, to give any easy answers to how effective treatment can be for substance abuse, although we are constantly evaluating new criteria for measurements.  The difficulty in making any certain assessments comes in part from the uncertainty that's simply inherent to the disease.  The addict is a subject that's very difficult to quantify.  It's not only because we're dealing with a human being, where by nature we are resistant to being meas