Residential programs

No one can promise that participation in a residential drug rehab will induce sobriety, but no other drug treatment program offers as great a probability of success. Between 40% and 60% of participants in drug rehab leave the program to lead better lives of complete sobriety; some others may eventually relapse and need some degree of additional therapy; and some recovering addicts may need to undergo a residential program more than once. Rehab therapies and treatments teach life skills towards...

Outpatient drug treatment, appealing to many who wish to remain with family, to remain working, and to avoid the expense and disruption of residential care; is unfortunately less effective than more intensive residential rehab drug treatment. Outpatient patients never get a real break from exposure to temptations, triggers to start abusing again, from the normal responsibilities of every day life, and are unable to focus as intensively on the needed lessons of recovery. Although some people wi...