Private Rehab: The 10 Commandments

When choosing a rehab for your recovery services, you want to know what is the standard, so you can make your choice with an informed perspective. The following are a list of 10 key components that should be present in a quality rehab experience:

#1 Thou shalt be engaging with each potential client.
The quality rehab puts resources and high level staff up front in their call center. Each caller is a potential client. A client of either your rehab, or another rehab. We make sure you get the help you need. Hopefully with Paradise Recovery. If not, then with another quality facility.

#2 Thou shalt be respectful, yet frank with the client.
It is the responsibility of the rehab to inform you what they've found what works! You are not an expert in addiction recovery. They are. However, the staff should have a respectful and professional manner. For many clients it is a matter of life or death, so the work is critical. The message needs to be clear and consistent. Our message is: "Recuperatio Primoris (Recovery above all else)!"

#3 Thou shalt not be over accommodating.
When choosing a private rehab primarily whether the facility has a "private flat screen television" or "total use of your cell phone" or "days for shopping sprees" works against you and a sustainable recovery. All these things have NOTHING to do with your recovery. The quality rehabs know what their mission is: To help you transform from an addicted person to a person in recovery. They do this by providing you with a structured, practice-based environment with consistency. You can watch all the television shows, cell phone conversations and shopping sprees after you leave your treatment experience.

#4 Thou shalt offer quality individual recovery-focused psychotherapy.
Most addicts are dealing with not only the substance addiction, but also an emotional instability or even a major mental illness. Therefore, individual therapy is crucial to discover the family or origin issues, childhood traumas, personal belief systems, practice expression of feelings/emotions.

#5 Thou shalt not advertise non-scientific rates of success..
Some facilities are bold enough to say they have "the cure" of addiction. This is just not true. Be careful not to be sold a twenty-first century "hair growing tonic". Scientifically, there is NO cure for addiction. In fact, relapse is often inevitable, but the difference is how you manage the relapse makes all the difference.

#6 Thou shalt offer traditional and complimentary medical interventions.
Many facilities accept you for admission during the detox phase of recovery. It is critical that you are care for by medical professionals that monitor and intervene with the best supports possible to make your detox as comfortable as possible. Working with a registered dietican during this phase of your treatment is critical to provide the necessary vitamins and nurtrients needed to get you through the detox.

#7 Thou shalt not cater to laziness and sloth during the first ninety days of treatment.
Your primary treatment program (rehab) should be a rigorous, scheduled program filled with individual, group, family and community groups that attempt to transform you away from addiction and self-desctruction to a life of healthy, right ordered living. Choosing a program that permits you to be lazy and not work their program is not doing you any good. They're just taking your money.

#8 Thou shalt use the 12-Steps as a foundation and offer alternatives to those needing another path towards recovery.
It has been proven time and time again that the 12-Steps and 12-Traditions of AA have worked for millions of women and men for over 50 years. Of course, some people, for ligitimate reasons, do not wish to engage in the 12-Steps. However, a program needs to assess WHY the person is not willing to engage in a process that has proven to work. If they insist, then other options are open to them: Christian-based/Scripture recovery, Intensive therapies (individual, group and family) along with acupuncture, neurofeedback, EMDR, etc.

#9 Thou shalt work on an optimal aftercare and monitoring program after discharge from the program.
It has been said, that a program is only as good as its aftercare approach. A quality program understands they cannot sustain your recovery without establishing the scaffolding needed for you to rest upon during moments of relapse. Monitoring is seens as an optimal way for an individual to stay clean and sober after they complete at least 60 days of primary treatment and have a sponsor to call in difficult times.

#10 Thou shalt have follow-up contact with the client after they complete the program.
The therapist making contact with you after you leave the program is an important offering. You have done good work with this therapist and hopefully, if you completed the program, have established a healthy relationship (maybe for the first time in your life) with someone. That they call you reguarly for up to one year, is critical in maintaining that trust and hopefully a sustained recovery from alcohol, drugs or whatvever your addiction may have been.

These commandments are designed to assist you when choosing your private rehab. Paradise Recovery obeys all the above commandments and subscribes to best-practice principles with each and every client that comes through our beachfront home in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Call us today and speak with one of our recovery counselors at (866) 478-9898 24-hours a day.
Recuperratio Primoris!