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Malibu-Style of the Rich & Drugged

This week in the LA Times they presented an article on the Malibu-style rehab centers that have housed the rich and famous. This list of celebrities that have been in drug rehab has been very long this year. This is not free mental health. These are programs that price upwards of $70,000 per month. What you do not hear is the price sometimes is requested for 2 months stay. Promises, Passages, and the list goes on. Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan, David Hasselhoff, and this list goes on. What you should know is what really goes on behind the doors.

What goes on behind the doors is not free mental health. It is a make up of fancy chefs, Yoga instructors, Nationalists, and a host of who’s who in psychiatry. The fact is that the program is only as good as the staff. All programs are made up of the same ingredients in terms of programming. It is like building a better mouse trap that looks and sounds better. No matter what the claim of these Malibu celebrity drug rehab centers, the success rate is most likely the same. The most important gradient is not whether the drug rehab is expensive, programming, or free mental health, it is purely the motivation of the patient. This means that the more motivated the celebrity is, no matter how rich, famous, or not, if want to get clean and sober you will. If you are not motivated to get clean and sober, then you won’t.