Inpatient Drug Rehab

As with all aspects of life, there are good as well as bad experiences involved during the rehab process. But patient should behave courageously and sticks to the addiction recovery process, regardless of the behavior of his family or friends.

People looking for recovery from drug addiction will found various treatment options. If you notice drug abuse symptoms in a family member or a friend then you should convince him to get treatment in a inpatient drug rehab facility. Such type of treatment provides the recovery of a drug addict with support 24 hours of a day. Also removing the addict from his previous lifestyle surroundings such as his personal drug using paraphernalia and drug using friends helps the addict to live a drug free life. The other advantages of inpatient treatment include reduced likelihood of the patient using drug or alcohol while the treatment is going on and highly structured days.

This inpatient treatment can take place at different locations like hospitals or similar accommodations, but it is not always the case. This treatment can be taken at any residential place also. In fact, many individuals prefer a treatment environment that is less restrictive than hospital, but have a good structure and supervision like any inpatient rehab center. This treatment frequently offers a supervised detox process, which include medication in hospital setting or social detoxification in non medical setting.

There are two types of inpatient treatment according to in how many days the treatment recovers the patient.

• Inpatient short term treatment
• Inpatient long term treatment or residential treatment

Inpatient Short-Term

This short term inpatient treatment requires 30 days of period. Most of these treatments focus emphasize on abstinence, medical stabilization and lifestyle changes. The staff members at the programs are primarily trained counselors and medical professionals.

Based on a modified 12 step program, the short term inpatient programs provides intensive and relatively brief residential treatments. Primarily these programs are just for alcohol abuse treatments, and later in 1980 they are expanded into drug abuse treatment.

Because of the reduced health care coverage for substance abuse treatment, the number of such programs are decreased and the average period of staying under manage care review has become shorter than the earlier programs, averaging 7 to 14 days.

Inpatient Long-Term / Residential

In this type of treatment patients generally stay for several months or up to a year or more. These programs offers around the clock drug free treatment with recovering patient and residential community counselors.

Generally, in non clinical settings the long term residential programs offer care for 24 hours per day. The therapeutic community (TC) is the best known residential treatment model, but the residential treatments also include other models like Social Education Model.