{"id":1013,"date":"2007-03-29T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2007\/03\/wish-you-were-here.html"},"modified":"2007-03-29T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T14:10:00","slug":"wish-you-were-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2007\/03\/wish-you-were-here.html","title":{"rendered":"Wish You Were Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One thing in today’s New York Times really struck my fancy. It’s about how fashionable it’s become to check in for a drug or alcohol mind\/body detox<\/a>. I quote:<\/p>\n

Less than a decade ago, a stint in rehab was assumed to be a body- and soul-wrenching experience. A trip to even an elite facility like the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., was sufficiently shaming to keep under wraps \u2014 the psychic equivalent of a week in the stocks. Today a sojourn at a boutique establishment like Promises in Malibu, Calif., where until last week Britney Spears was tucked away, is openly discussed and in some quarters glamorized as a hip, if costly, refuge for the gilded set. <\/p>\n

That idea is perpetuated \u2014 indeed aggressively promoted \u2014 by the marketers of a handful of high-end facilities, some of which advertise amenities on their Web sites like private rooms with 600-thread-count bedsheets, high-tech gyms, spa cuisine and ocean views. \u201cThere used to be a stigma to coming to a place like this,\u201d said Chris Prentiss, the director of Passages, another exclusive treatment center in Malibu. \u201cNow it\u2019s like wearing a Ralph Lauren shirt.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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