I had tried and failed at a couple different local affordable drug rehabs that my family paid for each time. I had told my parents I wanted to stay local and in state so I could be close to my family. But after my third attempt at my third different local rehab failed my parents told me that they were done paying for my rehab. They said that I wasn’t really trying or the local rehabs weren’t doing a good job. The truth was that both accusations were right, but still not the real reason for my failure at each local drug rehab. No, the real reason that I wanted to stay local was I could be close to my girlfriend, who was smuggling me in drugs each time I went to a local rehab. Eventually I overdosed and almost died and when I awoke I was in the hospital and my parents were standing at my bedside keeping vigil over me. They told me that they had talked and decided they would pay for me to go to rehab one more time. But this time they would pick the place and it would have to be an out of state drug rehab. They had researched online for affordable drug rehab centers and found a place in Florida called The Cottages. Through their online research they also had found out that by putting me back on their health insurance plan, their insurance would pay for my inpatient drug treatment at The Cottages.

I found The Cottages to be very therapeutic and very different from the other local rehabs I had attended back north. Their treatment techniques were different and their staff was very different too. I also got a lot more out of the individual and group therapy too. The other patients that I met there were very similar to me and I heard a lot of similar stories to mine. I learned a lot in the 30 days that I was at The Cottages. I think I grew a lot as a person and came to terms with myself and my addiction for the first time too. It is hard to sum up every aspect of my experience there since so much of it led to a spiritual and mental realization (I’m sure uniquely different for everyone there) that has transformed my whole thought process when it comes to drugs. I can say I definitely got the right treatment and at the right price too. The Cottages was a rehab that my family could afford to send me to, and because it was affordable I could stay long enough to finally get better.