What is the Average Success Rate for Rehabilitation Centers? Addiction recovery can present a struggle that might, at the outset, seem insurmountable. When addiction to a substance has taken hold of your mind and your body, a constant internal dialogue of failure and despair can run through your brain. When you get to the point where you know that you don’t want to live this way anymore, where you know that you need help, you will want to make sure that you find the resources that will actually give you the tools that you need to succeed and conquer the addiction. Unfortunately, many of the most popular rehabilitation programs do not actually have the statistical success rates to back up their claims. For example, 12-step programs only show about a 3% success rate and other alternative approaches usually only show a 10% success rate. Let’s take a look at why this might be and at the differences that can bring about higher rates of success. Language The language we use to talk about addiction and recovery can be pivotal to our success at overcoming addiction. Unfortunately, a lot of programs currently available discuss addiction in terms of disease and permanency. If the focus, of the literature, meetings, and therapy, is on the disease and how to work around a permanent structure in your life, chances are, you won’t see the inner change you were hoping for. Instead, find a program that