Before you can recover at an alcohol and drug rehab center, you need to be admitted. Many centers are part of a network in which you can count on your enrollment being handled with complete confidentiality. The best rehab centers have strict privacy rules so it will be just you, the staff, and at later stages group therapy (where you all have the same or very similar problems, so don’t sweat it.) Don’t worry about payment because rehab for your addiction is going to cost you a lot less in the long-term than the cost of continued substance abuse. Health insurance will cover some of the costs for you, and what is leftover can be financed so that it’s paid off in installments like a car loan. Rehab begins with detox, which is a medically-supervised period of withdrawal. Afterwards, you’ll still have cravings but the counseling and treatment will start to help you deal with it, on either an inpatient or outpatient basis, depending on the program.