One of the biggest questions I had in determining where to send someone for help was, “Where do I send my son/daughter/husband/wife/nephew?” It seems like everybody says they are the best!? One says Detox only, the other says Longer Term Treatment….One says 45,000 dollars a month the other says 4,500 dollars. So how do you know? I suppose the most honest answer would be…do your research…and you still might not know! What I can share is my experience and assume if your reading this blog you are researching for yourself or a loved one! Please don’t waste your resources/money!!!!! My family did at 8 places all over America 100’s of thousands of dollars wasted. Swimming pools, spa therapy, co-ed rehab romances, a chef cooking the food, aerobics, ping pong therapy, mind exerscises and so on and so forth!!! Give me a Break….oh, thats exctly what i got…a Break!…. from drugs and alcohol right up until I used again! I rested up at those places always with a firm resolve never to do it again…which of course I always did until I found away not to..and the cycle of addiction was broken and today 5 years later I walk a free man and am taking the time to try and help you not make the mistakes my family and I made. We found the Bay Area Recovery Center. Residential Treatment focussed on getting free from the obsession to use drugs or drinking. But more than that a design for living that works…really works. They are not reinventing the wheel and trying alternate forms new found treatment!! Or some hidden secret! You know as well as I do that the 12 steps of AA are the most sucessful recovery program on the planet, so why reinvent the wheel. Everybody that works at the Bay Area Recovery Center has gotten free and recovered frojm what was killing them. They have been there for 20 years and actually care about what they are doing..Sure they have to have money to operate the place but its affordable, comfortable, friendly, and most of all they have an ANSWER! What a true life changing experience! Remember, it’s not the place…it’s what happens at the place that matters!