Treatment concerns

When is rehab needed?

Most people consenting to a period of residential rehab have made personal and private efforts to reduce consumption or quit without success. Addiction progresses in severity, and the legacy of substance abuse includes learned life strategies, and even temporary changes in brain functioning or neuro chemistry. Will power alone is rarely enough to overcome a serious addiction to drugs or alcohol, and without treatment few people can ever achieve sobriety. A residential rehab program (http://www....

What standard of medical care is offered?

All facilities featured on Choose Help offer excellent and comprehensive medical care. Treatment will involve physicians, medical nurses, registered psychologists, psychiatrists, nutritionists and other addictions professionals. Patients will receive a physical evaluation during the initial assessment period, and will remain under constant medical observation should they need to progress firstly through a period of supervised detoxification. Detox, which can be dangerous and is always difficult...

How long will I be in treatment for?

Drug treatment ideally continues for a period of years, but the initial and residential phase of treatment may finish within 28 days. Every recovering addict has unique needs, and benefits from therapies at a personally defined pace. The length of inpatient treatment can vary depending on the severity and duration of the addiction; and some recovering addicts may benefit from a more extended period of inpatient care, up to a period of several months. A 28 day residential rehab offers an excelle...

Can people be too young or too old for rehab?

Choose Help facilities provide comprehensive treatment to all who need it, but programs are subdivided into treatments specific to teens (http://www.choosehelp.com/rehab-programs/teen-rehab), adults (http://www.choosehelp.com/rehab-programs) and seniors (http://www.choosehelp.com/rehab-programs/rehab-programs-for-seniors). Teens require different treatment interventions specific to the challenges of adolescence, and fare far better in age appropriate programming. Adults benefit from very similar...

What is the standard of accommodation?

It's tough to beat an addiction to drugs or alcohol, and because the struggle against dependency takes such an effort, recovering addicts shouldn’t need to worry about their environment, accommodations or meals. No one would suggest that a luxurious facility replaces the need for intensive and targeted therapies, but offering comfortable and private accommodations, and peaceful and tranquil surroundings, leaves the recovering addict free to focus solely on the efforts of recovery. Choose Help f...

What is executive rehab?

Because some working professionals have an increased need for confidential treatment and a need to remain connected to work responsibilities, executive rehabs exist to remove barriers to treatment access for those people unable to benefit from a conventional rehab experience. The perception of substance abuse can prove damaging to many senior professionals or executives, and as such executive rehab programs take additional measures to ensure complete confidentiality of care; and because executi...

What about treatment for dual diagnosis patients?

The existence of many psychiatric conditions increases the risks of substance abuse and addiction, and patients with depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders and borderline personality disorders all suffer far higher rates of concurrent addiction than the general population. Unless the severity of psychiatric symptoms makes participation in a conventional rehab impossible or unsafe, clinical professionals recommend that the substance abuse behaviors be tackled intensely through a reside...

Is the treatment for drug or alcohol abuse?

Depending on the drug of abuse, some of the educational seminars and group sessions may vary, but essentially the treatment centers around addiction recovery (http://www.choosehelp.com/topics/recovery), regardless of the drug of use and abuse. Every patient entering into a Choose Help rehab (http://www.choosehelp.com/rehab-programs) will undergo a comprehensive pre assessment period, and addiction professionals will design a recovery plan tailored to the needs of the individual. Patients underg...

Where are you located?

We feature residential and outpatient programs in most states. Click HERE (http://www.choosehelp.com/rehab-programs) for a list of all our Featured Facility providers.