Which is Best for Drug Rehab: Short Term or Long Term Treatment?

When a family seeks addiction treatment, there are many choices that must be made. And unfortunately, there are few guides to direct those decisions. Families may make their best choices but the result of a drug rehab program may be relapse followed by another return to rehab.

Short term recovery programs normally last 28 to 30 days. For many people, the only benefit they offer is a month free from drug use. They often fit the parameters of health insurance policies but they fit the needs of very few addicts. When a person is not heavily addicted and when a break gives him or her a chance to step back from the addiction and regroup, then a short term program might help. But for most people, this is simply not enough time to recover from the assault addictive drugs make on the body and to restore the life skills that enable a person to stay drug-free after release.

Long term programs come in many forms, from a twelve step based program with simultaneous diagnosis of secondary mental conditions to a therapeutic community. These long term drug rehabs can range from a few months to a year and a half or more for therapeutic communities. In these rehab centers, the discipline is imposed by the recovering members of the community itself, and a person works his way up to greater responsibility.

So How Long is Long Enough?

NIDA Study: According to the US National Institute on Drug Abuse, rehabilitation programs of at least 90 days or longer are needed to give an addicted person enough time to recover.

Always an Addict? Some philosophies of addiction treatment rehabs believe that an addict will always be an addict and must receive continuing treatment or attend meetings for years or forever. The Narconon addiction treatment drug rehab has developed an effective drug rehab program that can be completed in three to five months by most people. There are no substitute drugs used as treatment, there are no co-existing mental conditions diagnosed. A graduate of Narconon is not expected to attend meetings for years afterwards. Yet this program has a 70% success rate. But if you ask most rehab facilities how many people stay sober after they go home, they will state a success rate of 16 to 20%.

How can this program differ so much from other programs and yet be more effective?

What Makes a Narconon Rehab Center Stand Out from the Rest

The Narconon program is based on a unique technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard, American educator and philosopher. This technology of learning, understanding and living was discovered by a heroin-addicted prison inmate, William Benitez, who used a thorough study of this information to overcome his own addiction. Once he was released, he opened the first Narconon rehab center to help many more addicted people recover.

The Sauna Detox Step: One of the principles of this technology is that drug residues become stored in the fatty tissues of the body and tend to not be eliminated unless the body is given the right support. The Narconon New Life Detoxification, a phase of the Narconon drug rehab program, guides each recovering addict through the moderate exercise, time in a low-heat sauna and generous doses of nutritional supplements that causes this elimination to take place. As the toxic residues are flushed, the recovering person becomes brighter and his cravings reduce.

Life Skills Steps: Add to this the thorough recovery of life skills that are needed for each person to build a new sober life and a repair of the damage done to self esteem and relationships, and you have a person who knows how to stay sober. Learn how this unique drug treatment someone you love who is struggling with addiction.

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