3 Ways Inpatient Rehab Treatment Helps Promote Long-Term Abstinence
Addiction in any form can be an all-encompassing experience that slowly but surely destroys a person’s health and overall well-being. After so many years of chronic drug abuse, a traditional 30-day treatment program has little impact on the powerful role addiction has taken on in a person’s daily life.
Unlike traditional drug treatment, inpatient rehab treatment programs work to treat any complications caused by addiction as well as treating the addiction itself. Inpatient rehab treatment takes a comprehensive approach to dealing with addiction, giving recovering addicts the tools needed to maintain abstinence on an ongoing basis.
The Effects of Chronic Addiction
People who need inpatient rehab treatment typically struggle with both medical and psychological problems that develop as a result of chronic drug use. In effect, medical problems only work to reinforce the brain and body’s dependence on the drug’s effects.
Likewise, the psychological effects of addiction eventually start to breed a lifestyle of their own, affecting a person’s thoughts, emotions and behaviors along the way, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
The comprehensive approach used in inpatient rehab treatment works to restore normal physical and psychological functioning while helping a person replace compulsive drug-using behaviors with healthy ways of coping with daily life.
For help finding treatment that meets your needs call our toll-free helpline at 800-430-1407Who Answers?.
3 Ways Inpatient Rehab Helps
Peer supports help promote long-term abstinence.
Lifestyle Changes
According to the University of Delaware, with chronic addiction, compulsive drug-using behavior becomes the focus of a person’s life, creating a lifestyle of all its own. Inpatient rehab treatment programs operate as live-in facilities, which enable a person to develop a drug-free lifestyle during the course of his or her stay. In effect, the longer the stay, the more ingrained this lifestyle becomes.
Peer Supports
A big part of the treatment process lies in the peer supports and relationships that form during the course of your stay. Learning to build healthy, genuine relationships with like-minded others goes a long way towards creating the type of life that supports drug-free living. Ultimately, the live-in component of inpatient rehab treatment allows a person to take a break from the people and environments where drug-using behavior takes place.
Treatment Referrals
As inpatient rehab treatment only lasts for so long, it’s important for a person to have a plan in place once he or she approaches the end of treatment. In order to ensure those in recovery have the needed supports to maintain a drug-free lifestyle, these programs devise aftercare plans made up of referrals to community-based treatment resources. In this way, a person doesn’t have to figure out how to maintain abstinence on his or her own once inpatient rehab treatment ends.
Considerations
Developing a drug-free mindset most enables a person to abstain from compulsive drug-use on a long-term basis. Inpatient rehab treatment programs provide the type of environment that breeds a drug-free mindset and the types of treatment supports that make long-term abstinence possible.
If you or someone you know are considering inpatient rehab treatment and have more questions, or need help finding a program that meets your needs, please feel free to call our toll-free helpline at 800-430-1407Who Answers? to speak with one of our addictions specialists.
-
Who needs Inpatient Drug Rehab? -
Find out who qualifies for inpatient drug rehab, and the warning signs that immediate treatment is needed.
-
Is Chronic Stress Driving Your Addiction? How Rehab Centers for Drug Addiction Help You Overcome Stress and Addiction -
Chronic stress can take a huge toll on one's health and wellbeing. Many who struggle with this issue resort to drugs or alcohol, not realizing this behavior will eventually exacerbate the problem.
-
10 Traditional Inpatient Rehab Christmas Activities -
Although many do not think about spending Christmas in a rehab facility, it is something that does happen. If you happen to still be in treatment during the Christmas season, which many people are, you may be encouraged to spend Christmas at the facility. Treatment facilities strongly discourage leaving the facility for the holidays due ...
-
7 Healthy Ways to Overcome Blue Moments at Inpatient Rehab -
Overcoming an addiction is difficult and can bring about negative emotions. Inpatient rehab programs are aware of this, and thus provide a number of helpful therapies.
-
Places to Get Support After Inpatient Drug Rehab -
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, “Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing. In 2013, an estimated 24.6 million Americans aged 12 or older – 9.4 percent of the population – had used an illicit drug in the past month.” If you broke away from that destructive group, good job! If you have made ...