Anyone who wants to do well in drug rehab needs to know a couple of key pointers. These are things that I have witnessed over the years that seem to lead to positive outcomes for people. Now, understand that there are a whole lot more ways to screw this up than there are ways to do it right. If you want to stay clean and sober then it is sort of like walking a tightrope. You gotta do it just right, or you’re toast.

The first thing I would suggest is that you take the suggestions from the staff, the therapists, and the other recovering addicts at the rehab (especially any recovering addicts with significant clean time) and actually do what they tell you to do. This is especially helpful if you are younger and attending a teen drug rehab in which everyone thinks they know all the answers anyway.

Your best ideas about how to live and how to be happy got you all messed up and landed you in rehab….so what makes you think that you have all the answers? You don’t….so try listening to other people’s self help story and see what you can get out of it. In many cases you will get something from just about every single person that you meet in rehab if you are only willing to learn from them and see what kind of message they are bringing to you. Even those with toxic ideas and bad attitudes can be shining examples of how not to behave in recovery. If you are open and willing to find the lesson then you can gain a wealth of knowledge from a random group of addicts. This is the magic the process and this is what makes it work so well.