Types of Addiction Treatment

While struggling with a substance use disorder and/or co-occurring mental health and medical disorders, you might get to a point where you understand the need for proper addiction treatment. Before you enroll in a drug rehab, however, it is essential that you find out as much as you can about the different types of recovery services that are open to you.

Understanding Addiction Treatment

Today, addiction treatment services are provided in many different settings. Research studies have also pointed out that the treatment system should represent a planned and liaised continuum of care irrespective of where you seek help for your substance use disorder.

This means that you can now start on your addiction treatment at a particular level - such as crisis services and medically managed detoxification - before moving through the treatment system. After going through the entire system, you should be able to overcome your addiction and start functioning as an independent, self-sufficient, and productive member of your community.

When you are able to receive maximum benefit from your experience with drug rehab, you may get discharged. This way, you would be able to go back into society with a highly reduced risk of relapse.

That said, every category of addiction treatment care will provide you with different intensities of rehabilitation. Today, recovery services have been consolidated into 4 main categories of care. These categories, however, do not include the private licensed practitioners who also provide recovery services to people struggling with substance use disorders.

Types of Care in Addiction Treatment

The main types of addiction treatment services that you can receive today in the United States include:

1. Crisis Services

Crisis services are mostly designed to deal with detoxification and withdrawal. Often, they are provided as the first line of care when you check into any addiction treatment and rehabilitation program.

The goal of these crisis services is to manage any withdrawal symptoms that might arise when you stop abusing intoxicating and mind altering substances. They can also prove useful in dealing with any other acute disorder that you might have over and above your addiction.

You need to get crisis services early in the course of your recovery. Often, the duration would be short - and last anywhere between 3 and 30 days. However, if you are severely addicted or have a dual diagnosis for a substance use disorder and a co-occurring mental health disorder, you may have to stay longer in the detoxification program.

After the provision of crisis services, you will start working through the other aspects of your addiction and chemical dependence. For instance, you may be referred to another facility or program that can offer the continuum of care needed for your addiction. Alternatively, you may receive these additional services within the same facility that took you through withdrawal and detoxification.

2. Inpatient Rehabilitation

When you enroll in an inpatient addiction treatment program, you will be provided with more intense management of your chemical dependence, the symptoms of your addiction, and the monitoring and management of any psychological and physical complications of your substance use.

As the name suggests, inpatient drug rehabilitation will be offered on a residential basis. This means that you will live in the treatment center over the course of your recovery so that you can receive the various services needed to help you overcome your addiction.

These inpatient services may be provided in a freestanding facility, or in a hospital or clinical setting. Further, the duration of your stay in the center will range between 30 and 90 days. However, some inpatient drug rehabs might require that you receive longer treatment to ensure that you have achieved full recovery and sobriety.

During inpatient treatment, you will receive a wide variety of recovery services. These include but are not limited to intensive evaluation and assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation.

You may also be provided with round the clock medical supervision to ensure that you do not relapse over the course of your addiction treatment. Other clinical procedures that you can expect in such a program include:

• Activities therapy
• Addiction awareness and education
• Assessment
• Educational assessment
• Group counseling
• HIV education
• Individual therapy
• Psychiatric and medical evaluation and treatment
• Referral services
• Relapse prevention
• Risk assessment
• Supportive counseling
• Supportive referral services
• Vocational services

3. Outpatient Services

Finally, you may receive the services listed above from other facilities that provide addiction treatment on an outpatient basis. This effectively means that you will still be able to work through your addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders during the day before going back to work, home, or school later on.

Overall, your choice between the different types of addiction treatment programs explained above will largely depend on the severity of your addiction, your ability to pay, and your needs in recovery.

CITATIONS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_rehabilitation#Types_of_treatment

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/treatment-approaches-drug-addiction

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-drug-addiction-treatment-research-based-guide-third-edition/drug-addiction-treatment-in-united-states/types-treatment-programs

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230393/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3560851/