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The Best Luxury Rehab in the World: An Honest Guide RehabilitationStress & Burnout
September 26, 2025

The Best Luxury Rehab in the World: An Honest Guide

What the world's best private rehabilitation actually looks like The term 'luxury rehab' covers an enormous range — from well-appointed residential facilities with good clinical programmes, to ultra-private bespoke arrangements that bear no resemblance to rehabilitation as most people understand it. At the highest level, the distinctions are not about…
Ian Ross-Smith
What is a Luxury Rehab? Rehabilitation
August 16, 2022

What is a Luxury Rehab?

The term luxury rehab was coined around twenty years ago to describe something genuinely radical at the time: a new way of treating mood disorders and substance dependence that looked nothing like what existed before. What luxury rehab originally meant Until then, there were essentially two options — hospital-style clinics…
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What is Drug Addiction? Treatment
July 24, 2022

What is Drug Addiction?

Drug addiction — known clinically as substance use disorder — is a pattern of drug use that continues despite causing real harm to a person's health, relationships or responsibilities. It is a recognised medical condition, not a question of willpower or character, and it affects people across every walk of…
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Is Addiction a Disease? Treatment
January 24, 2022

Is Addiction a Disease?

Addiction as a disease Addiction is a complex disease, shaped by biological, psychological, social and cultural factors at once. You might be genetically predisposed to it, only for that predisposition to be drawn out by your environment, your community, or a relentlessly stressful working life. Your particular biology and your…
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