When an attorney confronts their own addiction problem and realizes they need help, just any standard addiction treatment program will not suffice. An attorney argues cases for a living. It would be far too easy for them to argue a case for their addiction in a standard treatment program. What an attorney really needs is an executive rehab because only there will they find addiction treatment professionals who are as intelligent as they are, who are able to call them on their excuses and justifications.

Executive rehab is addiction treatment on an attorney’s level. The material is more current, the environment is more accommodating and the staff is more highly educated and professional than at a standard rehab program. This is not to say that the staff of a standard rehab program are unintelligent or further behind. The staff of an executive rehab simply tends to be more highly certified and trained in their areas of expertise, making them more equipped to work with high profile individuals and brilliant professional minds.

Executive rehab programs are also very good about accommodating their client’s work commitments. The owners of executive rehabs know that their clientele does not always have the option of separating themselves completely from their professional obligations. Checking into rehab cannot mean checking out of the working world for a number of business professionals. Most executive rehab programs allow their clients to make their treatment schedules flexible in order to attend meetings, conferences and other in-person professional obligations. Executive rehabs will also frequently offer their clients a full business center so that they can work out of the treatment facility as well.

And lastly, an executive rehab will be far better at accommodating an attorney’s lifestyle than a standard rehab will. An attorney is in a position of prestige, and they are accustomed to some of the finer things in life. In an executive rehab, the accommodations and amenities will cater to this type of lifestyle so that the clients do not have to adjust to an entirely different lifestyle while they are recovering from addiction or substance abuse.

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Legal professions are some of the most stressful positions a person can hold. The legal systems in the United States and Canada are rigorous, carefully scrutinizing any given case with an attention to detail that most other professions come nowhere near. Legal professionals have to be this detail oriented in order to be successful in their line of work. But between the obsessive attention to detail, the high stakes, the expectations, the consequences and the time consumption of a legal career, many legal professionals find themselves stressed beyond what they can handle and slowly self destructing.

The legal professional’s attention to detail is its own source of stress. One small, missed detail can cost an attorney their case, or a judge their reputation. All of the legal system depends on the legal professionals knowing the details of the law inside and out, which is why a legal education is so grueling and a bar exam so difficult to pass. This hyper-perfectionism expected of legal professionals can be very taxing over time.

Another cause of a legal professional’s stress is simply how high the stakes are. Legal professionals determine the fates of many people who are processed through the legal system. When a case is brought against a person, the verdict that the court system arrives at can affect a person’s quality of life for years to come, and even their own mortality. Legal professionals go about their work everyday aware of how high the expectations are on them and how dire the consequences are if they fail.

Another fact about a legal professional’s stress is that their careers take up more time than other careers do. Compiling all the information for a case is a very heavy task, and an attorney may devote all their spare time to a case for weeks or months. This may consume time that they should be spending decompressing, being with family or taking care of their health, which increases their stress to an unmanageable level.