rehab really helped me, especially this last time. I know I said I didn't have a great experience at my first rehab, but that was because it wasn't the right kind of rehab for me. They weren't set up to handle concurrent disorders. My last rehab - and I still go there 3 times a week for groups was really good - it was 5 days a week for 10 weeks. It had mandatory random blood and urine testing. It gave me a period of sober time to get started, and gave me some tools to help me better understand why I drank and what I needed to do to stay sober. Lots of focus too on relapse prevention. I like out patient rehab better than in patient because when you're inpatient, it's easy not to use - you just don't have access to it, but when you're outpatient you have to deal with cravings and temptations when you're not in program, but the program's there to help you learn the tools to deal with the cravings and temptations. So you get practice while you have support.

I go to lots of AA meetings too, and 1 women for sobriety meeting a week.

Rehab can be really helpful.

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