Drug Rehab
One very successful drug rehab program is a
program where the steps of its drug rehab treatment are carried
out completely drug-free. Drug-free means not only complete
abstinence from the illegal drugs used by the patient, but from
other medications as well to treat substance abuse. This type
of drug rehab program instead uses nutrition and nutritional
supplements as an aid in treating the mind and body throughout
the drug rehab process. This type of drug rehab is considered
to be neither a psychiatric nor medical form of rehab, but
rather a rehab based around the education of the social aspects
throughout society.
Patients with drug dependency who enroll in this type of drug
rehab program are required to complete a full medical physical,
followed by an MD’s written consent to participate in the drug
rehab program, as well intermittent medical follow-ups as
needed by each patient. This type of drug rehab usually
considers the members of the treatment to be students rather
than patients, who are learning the necessary tools to put
their lives back together and reenter society as contributing
law abiding citizens. These students enroll in this type of
drug rehab not to recover or be “cured” of an illness, but
rather to learn strategies and methods of coping that they
either didn’t already know, or had forgotten due to a life of
addiction and drug abuse. These learned skills will aid each
individual to gain the ability to cope with everyday stressors,
and teach them how to handle and avoid triggers they have
identified that would usually lead them to use drugs.
This form of drug rehab aims to prepare their students for the
re-entry into life as drug-free and equipped with the tools to
maintain lifelong abstinence. When the students graduate from
the drug rehab program, they know that they do have the option
to re-enter the program if they feel that they are struggling
with their new life and fear relapsing.
Continued care is an important part of this
drug rehab program, as the students are aware that they will
always have somewhere to turn, and are never completely alone
in their struggle with addiction and drug abuse. However, the
drug rehab program is intended to allow students to graduate
and successfully enter into their new lives standing on their
own two feet, respecting the morals and ethics that they have
identified to be their own, and successfully be proud of the
person they have become. When a student graduates from this
type of drug rehab, they are no longer considered to be
recovering addicts, and do not attend weekly meetings, as do
those who participate in a 12 step program such as AA.
The goal for a student, who has graduated from this type of
drug rehab, is that they are recovered from their addition. The
final outcome from drug rehab is that the student, who is now
recovered, is able to achieve his or her goals of starting a
new, drug-free life, using the tools learned while in drug
rehab. This goal is applied to all whom complete this drug
rehab, whether they attend the program in a drug rehab center,
while in prison, or just after work or school.
Once the student is considered to be well and recovered, if the
individual uses the tools that they’ve learned and practiced
throughout the course of drug rehab, it’s more than possible
for the individual to live a drug-free, productive life
If an individual who has graduated form drug rehab feels that
they are slipping back into their old life, as mentioned
before, they are able to reenter into their drug rehab program,
and revisit aspects of the rehab they feel they didn’t grasp as
well as they should have. Once they have done this, they should
be again ready to leave the drug rehab, and continue with the
new life they were making for themselves, as positive members
of society.
Typically a drug rehab of this nature takes anywhere from three
to six months, but can last for as long as a year. It really
depends on each individual, how long they have been relying on
substances, and their comfort level of returning to a healthy
life successfully. A majority of graduates from this style of
drug rehab successfully enter into a new life, without relapse.
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