[Avodah] Seeking a facility for drug addiction problems

[hankman]

A well known blogger mentions in a recent blog that some Rabbanim have opined that in seeking a facility for drug addiction problems, get the best therapeutic facility available even if it means a non kosher or non shomer Shabbos facility. I am curious as to the basis for this psak. Is it in some sense a case of pikuach nefesh, so get the best possible treatment even at the cost of kashrus or chilul Shabbos, or is some other logic at play here?

He wrote:
It is interesting to note that when the father consulted Rabbanim as to what kind of facility his son should go to for addiction problems, they said it was not essential to find a Shomer Shabbos or Kosher facility. The most important thing was to find the facility that was right therapeutically. 
Kol tuv
Chaim Manaster
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