I want to express my thanks for the great information that you have on your site about alcohol and drug rehab. I have many years of experience in the rehab field and I find that too many website are copying each other's data and that there are many insightful comments about effective rehab on most of the sites.. your is certainly better.

It is obvious that you have a strong desire to help others that are addicted and you are to be commended for that as well and I throw in my support that anyone that has a problem with alcohol or drugs, call your counselors since the written information is accurate and useful, many times the real help in understanding these problems is best teased out in conversation with knowledgeable counselors, one-on-one.

In my review of literally hundreds of rehab centers, it was my experience that just as many of the websites on the internet are copies of each other, the alcohol and drug rehab centers are also carbon copies of each other; with the only differences coming from the different personalities involved, but the clinical protocols are nearly identical. Each center says that they do a better job then the next, but for the public to be confident if this is the case, it will require them to understand addiction and to assess whether or not the program addresses all of the elements that will cause relapse when the addict has left the center.

It is my experience that no one can address all of these components of addiction is less than 90 days, certainly not in 28 or 30 days and most of the centers have that one month of residence as their length of stay.

Also, it is hard to find rehab centers that really understand the elements of physical addiction. Most clinicians believe that the neuro-receptors of the brain need to "readjust" after extended drug use, but they don't understand how the fat tissue of the body actually stores and releases the metabolites of the drugs back into the blood stream, which causes flashbacks and unbearable drug cravings.

Without addressing this element of addiction, it is impossible for anyone to leave treatment without being haunted by reoccurring periods where their thinkings is distorted by these drug residues and the addict is at very high risk to relapse and quickly fall back into his addictive behaviors.

Thanks again for your good work in detailing the components of addiction and providing a forum where we all can share our individual ideas.