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[quote=Anonymous]Father Martin's runs about 24,000 to 28,000 a month.  Have heard very good things about them from people who have gone.  Caron is more like 35,000.  Have personal experience with Caron for a teenager and would not recommend to my worst enemy.  May be better for adults.  Good insurance tends to cover rehab pretty well, at least the first time.

If this person has a therapist and a psychiatrist, he is at least trying his own rehab, but it is not working so well.  Going to a lot of AA meetings is often helpful, but I have known people who find it quite depressing and discouraging to hear so many stories of relapses.

It is a myth that rehab, while helpful for many, is the only way to go here.  It is a myth that AA is the only way, as helpful as it has been to hundreds of thousands. It is also a myth that a person has to hit bottom before he can finally be successful at overcoming his addiction.  Addicts court ordered to rehab have just as good success rates as those who go voluntarily, albeit few programs have good success rates.

Google "Inside Rehab," a book by someone (I think a former alcoholic) who did a lot of research on this.  Most places do not use anything like cutting edge therapies and treatments and are spectacularly unsuccessful.  I haven't bought the book, but I understand it has many useful checklists for deciding on a rehab strategy, as well as which rehab program to choose.  Since you are not in an emergency situation, order the book off Amazon and take a little bit of time to do good research.

Many rehabs do not encourage/know about a medication that has been very successful with alcoholics.  It is naltrexone, a nonaddictive medication, that comes in pill form or in the form of a once a month injectable formulation called Vivitrol.  The latter is vastly preferred as the person cannot decide to stop taking it as he can with the pills so he can go on a bender.  Naltrexone blocks the ability of the person to feel the effects of alcohol.  If this person's psychiatrist has not suggested it, he should get a new one.  Father Martin's strongly suggests Vivitrol for its patients with alcoholism, as well as opiate addiction.  Getting him there may be the push he needs to get on this medication so he can live his life.  Or he can just go on Vivitrol locally and continue with therapy--it will put him in a place where he can be more receptive.[/quote]

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