Do you know someone who needs help getting clean and sober? What are their options?
They can try to stay at home and go “cold turkey,” but that depends on how much abuse they have had on what chemicals and how long.
If the abuse has been going on for many years, one of the options is inpatient rehab. It has a lot of advantages for drug abusers.
The abuser, for instance, may need more structure in their lives so that they won’t have so much free time to think about their situation and how to get and use drugs. Also when a person goes away to inpatient rehab, it takes away the negative influences that may trigger or encourage their drug use.
Phone calls and visitors are limited. They are in a safe place with constant support from an experienced staff. While they withdraw and detox from these drugs, their bodies may need medical monitoring to ease symptoms, and they will get that needed medical care inside the rehab.
They can also focus on themselves and their recovery without any distractions or stresses they used to get from daily life. One of the most important advantages is that they have limited contact with their family members each day so they are spared witnessing the emotional stress the family is going through.
An inpatient drug rehab allows the person to establish friendships as they live and work together towards a healthy common goal of sobriety. It is offered in every state in the U.S. and gives drug users education in life skills so they can not only get sober but return to everyday life and enable them to solve their problems.
For many addicts, spending time inside an inpatient rehab is the only real option. Outpatient programs can be effective, but a certain element of luck is involved. If the recovering addict keeps going back to the same unhealthy environment day after day, for example, it is unlikely that his treatment will work.
Inpatient rehabs typically boast a higher success rate than their outpatient counterparts. With more time to deliver therapy, drug counselors at these long term drug rehab programs have a better opportunity to promote recovery.
Drug addiction is not a problem that is solved just by getting the person off drugs for a day. Counselors have to help the person develop new patterns and moral values in order for them to stay clean. An inpatient drug rehab can be an excellent place for this to occur.
Source:
Medline Plus: "Opiate Withdrawal"
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