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[quote=Anonymous]I think PP meant meant taking the first step in the 12 step program, admitting you've become powerless over an addictive substance and your life has become unmanageable.

Getting to the first step is not insurance that treatment will work, so it makes no sense that having your loved one get to step ensures that the dollars you are spending on treatment are worth the investment.  The success rates at drug addiction programs are abysmal and there are many, many programs that take advantage of families' desperation or the increasing availability of federal funding.

OP, I wish you'd give us more to work with your situation.  Caron is not the right program for someone recently or very moderately addicted.  It is for more hardened addicts whose families have more money than time to see their addict through themselves.  You have said your daughter is sensitive, but not much about her drug status.

For those who are not hardened addicts, a successful recovery plan does not require a rehab or a halfway house.  It does require families who can do their homework to manage the recovery of their loved one themselves and also have an ability to look honestly at themselves to ensure they are not enablers and to draw boundaries and stick to them.  Naranon is useful for this.

There is a medication that can help enormously, Vivitrol, a monthly shot that does not involve an addictive substance that can be enormously helpful if the drug in question is alcohol or opiates.  NA is an excellent way to get a new set of friends that don't do drugs and are very adamant about personal responsibility.

I am very skeptical of almost all rehab programs, and even more so when they cost a $1000 a day and you don't even get daily professional individual therapy.  In your place I'd fly down to Florida and hear her out.  I'd see if she'd agree to a DIY program involving regular drug tests, NA meetings, individual therapy, and possibly Vivitrol, complemented by either a lot of volunteer work or a job in an industry that isn't full of drugs (eg not the food industry).[/quote]

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