揭秘：CEO上哪里戒毒

    穿越动荡期

    穿越动荡期(Coaching Through Chaos)是一家位于圣地亚哥的私人诊所，业主是心理学博士、家庭与婚姻治疗师柯林•穆伦。她说她的高管病人经常因为止痛治疗而对麻醉剂上瘾。

    她表示：“他们的耐药性已经提升了，但疼痛仍未缓解，所以他们使用了超出医嘱的药量。”她说，最终，药物已经不再有效了，这种情况下，一些高管进而采用海洛因等毒品也并非罕见。

    她说：“到那个时候，无论他们身处何种位置，看起来和其他瘾君子也没什么区别了，也许除了他们还有更好的家可以住以外。”

    无论他们外型如何，他们都需要维护声誉，继续经营自己的事业，所以她的治疗方法在某些方面进行了调整，以满足高管的需求。

    她表示：“我这边的治疗服务不仅可以用传统的医保支付，如果他们想隐藏自己的身份，我也接受现金付款。我还可以提供上门服务，在他们的办公室里与他们见面。如果他们要出差，我也可以提供电话或视频会议的额外指导。”

    作为门诊服务提供者，穆伦博士的每月治疗费用没有达到那些高端住宅式疗养院的标准。

    她说：“我在自己的办公室内看病，收费是每小时120美元。一般每个病人每周至少要来看一次。如果有人要求我提供专门服务，比如在办公室之外与他们会面，或是提供额外的电话指导，收费就会是每周600美元或更高。所以每个月的平均价格是500至4000美元不等。”

    马里布的季节

    南希•埃尔文博士是住院式医疗中心马里布的季节(Seasons in Malibu)的临床医学家。她表示，住院30天的平均费用约为5.5万美元，但病人享受的服务绝对物有所值。实际上，中心提供的治疗选择太诱人了，即便是完全清醒的人可能也愿意短暂入住。

    她说：“我们的整体治疗中包括艺术疗法、推拿、头部按摩、催眠疗法、针灸、精神辅导，还有许多康复小组——创伤组、男子组、女子组、释梦组、家庭组等等。”她还列出了一系列健身项目，包括冲浪、瑜伽和泰拳。

    如果高管们有紧迫的事情要办，马里布的季节还提供“高管特权通道”，病人可以在疗养院通过视频会议直接参与公司事务。埃尔文表示：“我们不想让病人在入住这里的30天中还担心他们的公司业绩下滑。”

    她表示，压力和尚未解决的创伤是导致这类病人出院后故态复萌的常见原因。然而，她认为“故态复萌”这个词不具有贬义。

    “大多数成瘾患者都会故态复萌，但我们认为这是通向成功的踏脚石。聪明的人会从其中吸取教训，就像从其他错误中一样。他们会利用它来取得成功，而不是将它看作得到验证的成见：‘一旦上瘾，永久上瘾。’”（财富中文网）

    作者丹尼尔•布克茨潘是一名居住在纽约的自由撰稿人。

    译者：严匡正

    审校：任文科

    Coaching Through Chaos

    Coaching Through Chaos is a private practice located in San Diego and run by Colleen Mullen, Psy.D., LMFT. She said that her executive patients frequently present with addictions to opiates that were prescribed for pain management.

    “Their tolerance to the medication has built up, but the pain is still there, so they begin taking more than prescribed,” she said. Eventually, the pills just don’t do the trick any more, and she said that it’s not uncommon for someone in that situation to move on to a drug such as heroin.

    “By that time, no matter what position in life the person started out in, they often look like any other addict, except maybe they still have a nicer home to use in,” she said.

    Whatever their appearance, they have reputations to protect and businesses to run, so she’s tailored certain aspects of her practice to suit those needs.

    “In addition to traditional insurance-covered therapy services, I offer a cash option, should they want to fully protect their anonymity,” she said. “I also provide concierge therapy services in which I can come and meet with them in their office or provide extra support by way of coaching phone calls or video-conference sessions when they may be traveling.”

    As an outpatient provider, the costs for Dr. Mullen’s monthly services don’t reach the heights of those of a high-end, residential inpatient facility.

    “My hourly in-office rate is $120,” she said. “The average person comes at least one time per week. If someone hires me for concierge services, ranging from meeting with them outside of my office or extra coaching calls, we could be looking at $600 or more per week. So the average range is about $500 to $4,000 a month.”

    Seasons in Malibu

    Dr. Nancy Irwin is staff therapist at Seasons in Malibu, an inpatient facility. She said that the average 30-day stay costs approximately $55,000, but patients get a lot of bang for their buck. In fact, the center offers treatment options so enticing that even the utterly lucid might briefly entertain the prospect of checking in.

    “Our holistic modalities include art therapy, massage, cranial-sacral work, hypnotherapy, acupuncture, spiritual counseling… and a host of groups — trauma, men’s, women’s, dream interpretation, family systems, and more,” she said. She also noted the physical exercise options, which include surfing, yoga and Muy Thai.

    If business simply won’t wait, Seasons in Malibu offers “Executive Track,” a plan that allows patients to attend to company matters via video-conferencing while they’re still on the facility’s grounds. “We don’t want people to think their business is going to tank if they’re here for 30 days,” Dr. Irwin said.

    She said that stress and unresolved trauma were common triggers that cause these kinds of patients to relapse after leaving the facility. However, she objected to the negative connotation associated with the word “relapse.”

    “Most addicts do relapse, but we view that as a stepping stone to success,” she said. “Wise people learn from a relapse, like any other mistake, and use that to empower their success, versus viewing it as proof of the limiting belief, ‘Once an addict, always an addict.’”

    Daniel Bukszpan is a New York-based freelance writer.