What Is Heroin Treatment Like?
What you experience during heroin treatment depends on individual factors such as how long you have been using your drug and the amounts you have been using. Your recovery will depend on understanding and coping with other challenges, too such as underlying psychological problems (including depression or bipolar disorder) that may have caused or been exacerbated by your drug use. There are two kinds of treatment centers: live-in (residential) or outpatient (live at home). • Residential treatment centers can be very specialized, such as wilderness programs and therapeutic boarding schools for preteens and teenagers, Christian rehabilitation, or gender-specific programs. Some residential programs offer services for many kinds of addictions and psychological problems, while others specialize in one particular addiction or disorder. • With outpatient treatment, you live at home and check with your counselors and doctors on a regular basis.
