Drug & Alcohol Rehab Centers near Manistee, MI

Great Lakes Rehabilitation Center

Before my son went to Best Drug Rehab he was addicted to heroin and Xanax. He had a daughter that he never saw, never talked to and for the most part just pretended like she didn’t exist. When his girlfriend at the time found out she was pregnant she got clean and got her life together. I thought my son would do the same but he just went on using. I’ve never been able to get him to agree to go to rehab. He’s always said the same thing which was that he didn’t want to get clean. He liked heroin, he liked Xanax and had no interest in not using them. I still don’t really understand that. It just doesn’t make sense to me that someone would choose heroin over their child. About 9 months ago, my son got arrested. It was the first time he had been arrested and I believe he was under the impression that if he ever was to get arrested his dad and I would just bail him out of jail and pay for his lawyer. We didn’t though. Both my husband and I agreed that while we couldn’t force our son to get help with his addiction we would never bail him out of jail just so he could go get high again. We just told him to call us when he was ready to go to rehab and we would help him get into a rehab. So many things have happened in my son’s life where I thought “this is it, this is the thing that’s going to change my son’s mind about getting clean” invariably those things have never changed his mind about getting clean. Jail didn’t either but 2 months later he called us and told us that he was ready. We sent him to Best Drug Rehab and the facility has helped my son so much. When my son first started using I did a lot of research on drug addiction and rehabs. Finding out how high the relapse rate of drug addicts going back to their addiction after a rehab scared me. So, when my son decided to get help I was glad but I wasn’t expecting all that much from Best Drug Rehab. I really liked the programs there and the facility looked really nice but I was mentally prepared to have to send my son there multiple times before he would actually manage to stay clean. It was honestly surprising to me how well my son did there. He not only went through the treatment program there without getting into any trouble or anything he also took parenting classes so he could be a better father. He started really working on mending his relationship with his ex-girlfriend and wants to be a dad to his daughter. When he graduated the program and came home I was still really worried. Getting clean in a rehab is one thing. Staying clean when you graduated and go home is something else entirely. He stayed home for a little over 2 months and then went back there to work. He loves it there. He gets to help people the same way he was helped. I don’t know what would have happened with my son if we had sent him to a different rehab but I don’t think it would have helped my son half as much as Best Drug Rehab did.