Originally Posted by
cac 
So...how do we know which facilities have good recovery rate? Or is it more due to the person than the facility?
All this "recovery rate" stuff is BS marketing hype. Some, not all, recovery places attempt to maintain contact with former guests for a limited time, typically 2 years. Assuming they are able to make and sustain contact, the information is based on what the former guest chooses to disclose.
Rehab does not cure addiction. Rehab can teach recovery tools to
highly motivated guests. It's substantially easier to stay on the straight and narrow in rehab, than in the outside world, where one has to cope with life as it is, instead of how they want it to be. Addicts, like all of us, are just one lousy decision away from self destruction.