揭秘：CEO上哪里戒毒

    安娜•大卫是RehabReviews.com的总编辑，这家网站上有将近900家戒毒康复机构的评论。你可以将它看作点评网站Yelp.com的戒毒康复机构版本。大卫也是一名正在康复的瘾君子。她表示，以她自己的经验看，有毒瘾的首席执行官绝不罕见，而一般的医疗机构很难满足他们的需求。

    她说：“面向这一人群的康复机构正如雨后春笋般涌现。其中有不少业主都曾染上毒瘾，后来幡然醒悟，最终取得了事业上的成功。他们完全知道如何治疗这类人，因为他们曾经是其中的一员。”

    这些康复机构可不便宜。大卫说，每月收费10万美元的高端康复机构也并非闻所未闻。不过她也表示，对首席执行官来说，这些地方是理想的放松和康复场所。

    她说：“这些地方配备了最优秀的治疗师、1000针的高级面料床单、复古的全天然素食盛宴……这会鼓励更多人前来接受治疗，并最终在那里康复。我看到了令人惊讶的转变……来到疗养院的人里，有你能想到的最声名昭著的讨厌鬼，他们在这里恢复了精神上的活力，出院时已是一个完全不同的人。”

    康复所向高管提供了许多不同的治疗选择，它们的方法、理念和价格都有所不同。日前接受《财富》采访时，一些提供这类治疗服务的专业人士畅谈了他们的看法。

    创新360

    创新360(Innovation360)位于德克萨斯州，在达拉斯和沃斯堡都设有门诊所。临床心理学家凯文•吉利兰德在达拉斯诊所工作，他估计病人在中心接受第一个月的治疗需要花费1.5万至2.5万美元。他说，酒精是他最常见到的让高管上瘾的东西。

    他表示：“酒精是合法的，人们将它视为娱乐和商业的一部分，而且有些客户期待你用酒精招待他们。”

    对许多这类病人来说，他们成功的标志也是他们接受治疗的障碍。他们通常不能被公司解雇，而且十分富裕，以至于没有人能通过威胁解雇他们来让其接受治疗。尽管“高处不胜寒”已是陈词滥调，但用这句话来形容那些有酒瘾的首席执行官的确再恰当不过。

    他表示：“人们宁愿选择酒精或毒品，而不是发展重要的人际关系，来帮助他们应对岗位上的挑战。”对那些十分在意公众形象而不愿寻求治疗的高管来说，这一点尤其如此。

    他说：“首席执行官和高管都很注重声誉，这也是理所当然的事情。如果你知道管理你血汗钱和退休金的对冲基金经理嗜酒如命，你怎么能睡一个安稳觉？”

    海瑟顿•贝蒂•福特基金会

    海瑟顿•贝蒂•福特基金会(Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation)是全球最大的非盈利治疗提供商。基金会的公共关系代表克里斯汀•安德森表示，住院治疗一个月的费用大约是3.3万美元。

    首席医疗官、医学博士马文•D•斯帕拉表示，治疗高管最大的障碍是他们的领袖心态——讽刺的是，正是这种心态让他们取得了成功。

    他说：“我们的治疗方法主要是集体治疗，这要求人们分享他们的问题，表达他们的感受。你可以想象，手握重权的高管很难做到这一点。”

    或许很难说服他们采用这种方式，但他表示，“集体背景”是基金会治疗流程中必不可少的环节。

    他说：“那些上瘾者很容易意识到其他人身上出现了问题，但要发现自己有同样的问题则难得多。集体治疗让人们能认识到其他人的毛病——最终他们会开始审视和承认自己的问题。”

    基金会还会预测病人结束治疗后的状况，准备了各种资源来帮助那些进展不顺的病人，因为这种情况是难免的。

    他说：“我们提供的服务包括评估、住院和门诊治疗、有条理的生活、持续的看护、家庭项目、社群社区、父母康复团、父母指导、儿童项目和预防项目。我们整合了成瘾治疗和心理健康治疗的方法，以同时解决这两个问题。”

    Anna David is Editor-in-Chief of RehabReviews.com, a website with reviews of nearly 900 drug rehabilitation facilities. Think of it as a Yelp.com for drug rehabs.David is also a recovering addict, and she said that in her experience, the CEO with an addiction is by no means a rarity, and neither is the treatment facility catering to his or her needs.

    “Rehabs targeting this demographic have started popping up seemingly every second,” she said. “Many of these rehab owners are addicts who got sober, became quite successful as a result, and know exactly how to treat these people, because they are these people.”

    These facilities aren’t exactly cheap — David said that at the high end, the $100,000-a-month inpatient facility is not unheard of — but she also said that they’re ideal for easing a chief executive officer into recovery.

    “Having the best therapists around, 1000-count sheets and an all-organic, ‘paleo,’ vegetarian, what-have-you meal plan… will encourage more of them to go to treatment, and ultimately to thrive there,” she said. “I’ve seen amazing transformations… people who come into rehab with the most entitled, obnoxious personalities imaginable, who end up having spiritual awakenings that cause them to check out as different people.”

    There are different treatment options available to executives, all with different approaches, philosophies and costs. Fortune spoke to some of the professionals who offer them, and got their observations.

    Innovation360

    Situated in Texas, Innovation360 is an outpatient facility with locations in Dallas and Fort Worth. Clinical psychologist Kevin Gilliland operates out of the Dallas facility, and he estimated that patients pay between $15,000 and $25,000 for their first month of treatment at the center. He said that alcohol is the substance that he most frequently sees executives struggling with.

    “It’s legal, it’s accepted as part of entertainment and business, and even expected by some clients,” he said.

    For many of these patients, the barriers to treatment that they encounter are also signs of their success. They often can’t be fired, they’re too wealthy for anyone to force them into treatment by threatening to cut them off, and although “lonely at the top” is a well-worn cliché, it’s no less true of the CEO with an addiction.

    “People will choose alcohol or drugs over developing significant relationships that can help them manage the challenges of the position,” he said. This is especially true of executives who are too image-conscious to seek treatment.

    “CEOs and senior executives are all concerned about perception, and rightly so,” he said. “How well would you sleep if you knew your hedge fund manager watching over your hard-earned money and retirement has an alcohol addiction?”

    Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

    The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is the world’s largest nonprofit treatment provider. According to public relations representative Christine Anderson, one month of inpatient treatment costs approximately $33,000.

    Chief Medical Officer Marvin D. Seppala, M.D. said that the biggest hurdle in treating the executive is the alpha dog mentality – ironically the very thing that made him or her successful in the first place.

    “Our treatment is primarily accomplished with group therapy, which requires that people share their problems and express their feelings,” he said. “As you can imagine, this does not come naturally for most high-powered executives.”

    It may not be an easy sell, but he said that the group setting is essential to the way the Foundation provides treatment.

    “It is much easier for those with addiction to recognize problems in others than to see the exact same problem manifesting in their own lives,” he said. “Group therapy allows for initial recognition of someone else’s shortcomings — ultimately the individual begins to see and admit to their own problems as well.”

    The Foundation also looks ahead to what happens when a patient has finished treatment, and offers a variety of resources to help when the going gets tough, as it inevitably will.

    “We offer assessments, residential and outpatient treatment, structured living, continuing care, family programs, social communities, parent recovery groups, parent coaching, children’s programs, and prevention programs,” he said. “We integrate addiction and mental health treatment so that both issues are addressed at the same time.”