Should a chronic drug or alcohol abuser attend a treatment program close to home?
Drug and alcohol addiction typically involves habitual routines in the environmental scope of the individual, i.e. the locations of their drug or alcohol use, the people they associated with in the activities of drug or alcohol use, etc. Drug or alcohol addiction is not just drug and alcohol use, it revolves around people and things in their immediate environment which help to trigger the addictive behavior. The abuser’s location and routines of drug and alcohol use further trigger drug and alcohol use. It is the constant and seemingly unstoppable drug or alcohol use and the hopelessness of day to day existence which perpetuates the problem and inhibits the native desire to stop ruining their life through the use of drugs and alcohol. The above factor should not be over looked when considering a treatment center location. The first two weeks of treatment are always the most difficult. In addition to what has been covered above, a more basic factor is this – people are creatures of habi
