Like with other fields in health care, drug rehab and addiction treatment centers ultimately have to make money somehow to keep operating. Most of these facilities are non-profits, so they don’t make a lot of money, but for those that are for-profit and even some that receive government funding, it can be a major source of revenue. It usually depends on how they view addiction and whether or not they believe that permanent recovery is possible.
High-priced for-profit centers can charge 40K per month and offer a nice place to live and some counseling with plenty of activities and a private chef. Those places are often more like a month-long vacations for relaxation to get away for a bit than true recovery centers that get results.
At the lower end of the spectrum are treatment facilities and counseling programs that accept state and federal money to provide services for people who can’t afford to pay. While this is a much-needed gap to fill, most of these programs actually spend more time on filing the paperwork to keep their contracts than making sure clients remain sober – and it’s totally acceptable since the government thinks addition is an incurable disease – how ridiculous!
Somewhere in between it all, there are successful drug and alcohol rehabs that are able to demonstrate that addiction can be cured and that permanent recovery is possible. These are the programs that we support.
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