Our main principle in operation is that a candidate to join our community, and complete the entire course of rehabilitation, must come voluntarily. Any coersion or avid persuasion will not bring any useful results. Our wide and longstanding experience shows that despite dependency on alcohol or psyhcoactive substances people tend to maintain some of their essential faculties almost in tact. Only relying on those remaining faculties of concience, crtitical assessment of ones own problems can we build a lasting relationship with the patient and hope for his ful recovery.