Good Chemical Dependency Treatment Centers can only be successful when the Person Sees the Problem

Chemical dependency is a lonely problem that one also needs to recover from through their own self acknowledgement and work. Certainly most treatment centers assign a chemical dependency counselor, there's counseling sessions, and other support helps, but in the end only the person suffering from the addition can take back control of their own life.

Granted, the whole chemical dependency treatment center programs were not designed, built, and established for celebrities and well-knowns, but the leaking of reports about stars getting recovery help inform us regular folk about the availability and accessibility of chemical treatment centers the world over.

Rush Limbaugh, Robert Downey Jr., and many other high profile men and women might prefer to keep their diseases of addiction quiet, but might not realize, either, that exposure to their fall and rise educates those of us who have (or had) no clue about where to begin searching for help.

Of course, this writer is no celebrity, but instead is one who first learned about recovery by reading about Betty Ford, the Betty Ford Clinic, and about stars like Elizabeth Taylor attending a similar facility (and meeting Larry Fortensky remember?).

Fact is that everyone involved with an addicted person, needs to understand that they didn't wake up one day and DECIDE that they wanted to get addicted to drugs, alcohol, food etc.

A friend who cared introduced us to a twelve-step program. There, at meetings and clean and sober events, fellows in recovery shared experiences with various programs and chemical dependency treatment centers. Again, these sources were not the higher-end glitzy facilities necessarily, but were (and are) cultivated according to serious protocol and varied and varying methods that help anyone walking through their doors.

For example, one of the strictest of methods used in a typical chemical dependency treatment centre is what is known as confrontational therapy during a counseling session. This hard-nosed, no-nonsense truth-seeking method calls one to take responsibility, teaches one to find and have integrity, and helps one to follow disciplined regimes until one can help oneself, have self-discipline and self-respect. This is a far cry from the old historical alcohol and drug treatment programs of yesteryear.

Another way we have been exposed to information we might not otherwise get is through such shows as "Intervention". For one hour each week, we watch one or two individuals in the throes of addiction, witness how the families and friends and trained and licensed professionals intervene, and see, hopefully, the subject agree to getting treatment.

If he or she gives a yes, we then get the results: a treatment facility that focuses on tough love, works with a kid-glove approach, or using methods tried and true which are based on any number of psychiatric/therapeutic disciplines Freudian, Skinnerian, et. al..

And, of course, the most prolific of resources is the Internet. Here we can look into such chemical dependency treatment centers as Walden House in San Francisco, California, Cumberland Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Brooklyn, NY, and Broadway Lodge in Weston-super-Mare, England. The blogs inform us of personal trials with and tribulations over addiction; and the news services expose us, again, to the big stars and their plights and fights to heal from the disease.

But remember, recovery is not just for stars who can "afford" it. It is for all of us, rich or poor, educated or incarcerated. For as Elizabeth Taylor said of alcohol (and which is applicable to any chemical)[it] is the great equalizer.

So while chemical dependency treatment centers are staffed with qualified counselors with specialized certification degrees, in the end, it's the person addicted that needs to do the work in counseling and recognition that things need to change. No plan or treatment centre will be successful without the full recognition and support of the person they're trying to help.

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