1. Remember to follow the recommendations of trained addiction treatment professionals. 

For Example: They may tell you that you cannot talk to your loved one while they are in addiction treatment. Sometimes it is better for all involved if the drug addict/alcoholic is separated from the family for a while when they first enter addiction treatment/drug rehab.  The reason for the forced familial detachment  is that the drug addict/alcoholic needs to be free from the opportunity to manipulate family members into taking them out of drug treatment.  Often the alcoholic and addict when they first enter drug rehab will do everything they can to convince their family members that they do not need treatment, and/or that the drug rehab they have so heartlessly and callously put them is a horrible torture chamber of psychological brainwashing.  If you are a family member, what you need to know is that the unwilling addict/alcoholic will innevitably do everything they can, use all their powers of manipulation, to convince you that they do not need to be in a drug rehab.  Why are they doing everything to manipulate you? Their disease is crying out against being cured.  The disease of addiction is like an evil entity that does not want to die. It will do everything in its power to keep the addict/alcoholic from killing it.  This is why it is better during the first thirty days in drug rehab for the family to not talk to their loved one, because you will not be talking to the person, you will be talking to the Demon Disease.  So, many addiction treatment counselors will recommend that the family have no contact for at least the first two weeks, to 30 Days of the person's treatment.  Trust me, it is better for everyone involved that this happens... Brendan Bickley