Drug Rehab Success
Statistics show that success for addicts improves when the individual participates in a drug rehabilitation program. The type of program that works best varies from person to person, based on the individual’s needs. Inpatient treatment has greater success for people with a long history of abuse because they learn the coping skills necessary to re-enter society. Outpatient treatment works best for people with a recent history of abuse. However, people that try to quit on their own or use medically assisted detoxification with no additional therapies have the same success rate as those who were never treated at all—which is a very low success rate. The reason that treatment, whether inpatient or outpatient, works is because after 3 months, improvements can be seen from the detoxification to relearning coping skills.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:03 am
We are begining to see different beliefs when it comes to using long term medication maintanance programs, like a year or more, for people detoxing after an extensive history of abuse which in my opinion is assisting the addict to still use but can be viewed by many as acceptable way to help the addict detox. The stats on the long term medication program can be seen as a bandaid to the real deepth of the addict behavior to make poor daily life choices for themselves. The addict is still an addict when the layers of their stories are told as they enter some level of honest sobriety with the spiritual 12 step maintanance program is used on a daily basis is a live life on life terms medication. In my opinion a short term medication maintanance program to assist the addict when detoxing from extensive use is important as a medical condition from the abuse but can not fill the spirtual need in the addict.