Why is rehab more effective than outpatient treatment?
Rehab facilities can be better than outpatient treatment, depending on the level of care required. Rehab facilities are less strenous on the person recuperating because all of the services they require are in the facility where they reside. Rehab facilities usually have 24-hour care should complications develop. Whether or not to use such a facility depends on the nature of the illness, the amount of care required, ability to provide support care in the home, as well as the proximity of offices the person recovering will have to attend to get follow-up care.
Outpatient drug treatment, appealing to many who wish to remain with family, to remain working, and to avoid the expense and disruption of residential care; is unfortunately less effective than more intensive residential rehab drug treatment. Outpatient patients never get a real break from exposure to temptations and triggers to abuse and from the normal responsibilities of every day life, and are unable to focus as intensively on the needed lessons of recovery. Although some people with recent substance abuse histories and less severe addictions may require only outpatient care, most addicts require the more intensive and immersive therapies of drug rehab to integrate the lessons of treatment into daily life. A residential rehab offers recovering addicts a temptation free period of sobriety, and enough time away from abuse to relearn that abstinence and the accompanying clarity can feel just as good as intoxication. The therapeutic approaches of in and outpatient care do not differ mu
