No News Isn't Good News

With all of the talk about celebrity rehab and its effectiveness, or lack thereof, it's really putting a shadow on a very important industry. Drug treatment centers are vital in the work they do to help those who earnestly want help from their addictions. The trouble with celebrities in rehab is that they really don't want 'help', they want some magic cure that will enable them to go on with their destructive lifestyle while not suffering the consequences of the drugs and alcohol abuse. Maybe in some warped sort of 'perfect' world that would be possile, but in reality, if you want a cure, you have to be willing to accept the treatment, and do the work to get through the rehab. For those that really DO want to clean up their lives, rehab is the best possible way to do it. Most of the time there is no way to do it alone, and friends and family can only help so much. The professionals that work at the treatment centers have not only valuable school knowledge, but often times life knowledge of what it takes to get rid of the dependancy on alcohol or drugs. Sadly, the focus now is on the celebrity rehab failures rather than on how wonderful and helpful those places really are. The focus needs to shift. Unfortunately good news is usually not 'newsworthy'.