Learn From My Experiences in Drug Rehab

I’ve been to drug and alcohol rehab more than once, and each time I got a taste of the phenomenon of rehab dating. Basically, as it may not surprise you, when you place a bunch of people who are coming off various drugs and alcohol into close quarters for a month or more at a time, you will encounter “hooking up.” Now, you might be able to guess that this behavior is frowned upon by the administrators of the rehab and if you are caught “having a relationship” you will probably be thrown out.

This doesn’t stop people.

I have seen first hand that weak, frightened people who are down on their luck will try to mitigate their misery through relationships regardless of the harmful impact that it might have on their recovery. So, if you are heading off to rehab and are thinking that you might be able to get some, I’d like to advise you to change your thinking.

There are a number of reasons why relationships in rehab are a bad idea. The first is that people is rehab are going through a lot of pain and uncertainty. They are used to medicating their feelings with drugs and alcohol. However, since there is no drugs or alcohol in rehab, they go with the next best thing.

Invariably such relationships end badly. But, in some cases, they end very barely. There is no access to birth control in rehab and more importantly there are no condoms. You may think that this not such a big deal, however you should be aware that the rehab population consists of IV drug abusers and the incidents of HIV and hepatitis is quite high.

Remember that you go to drug and alcohol rehab to get your life together, not to catch a life-threatening disease. Also, you’d be surprised at the state that you and your peers in rehab find yourself in emotionally. You will likely not be landing a catch. Instead you will be landing a person who is deeply troubled, might have a sexual addiction and is probably carrying some nasty diseases.

So, though it happens quite a lot, relationships in drug and alcohol treatment centers are a very bad idea. So get that idea out of your head.