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  • Most people finally consenting to a period of residential rehab have made personal and private efforts to reduce consumption or quit without success. Addiction progresses in severity, and the legacy of substance abuse includes learned life strategies, and even temporary changes in brain functioning or neuro chemistry. Willpower alone is rarely enough to overcome a serious addiction to drugs or alcohol, and without treatment few people can ever achieve sobriety.

    A residential rehab program offers the most intensive therapies, a medically supervised detox, and an enforced period of temptation free sobriety; and no other form of drug treatment has as much potential to effect change as a residential drug rehab program.

    If you are powerless over the amount or frequency of your consumption…you should consider treatment.

    If you continue to use, even as you suffer the obvious and serious consequences of that use…you likely need help.

    If your health, family or work life suffers due to your drug or alcohol use…you need to get better, before things get worse.

    Nothing about drug or alcohol addiction is painless and that includes recovery, but honest and motivated participation in a residential drug rehab is the bet way to beat an addiction, and take your life back.

  • No one can promise that participation in a residential drug rehab will induce sobriety, but no other drug treatment program offers as great a probability of successful recovery.

    Between 40% and 60% of participants in drug rehab leave the program to lead better lives of complete sobriety; some others may eventually relapse and need some degree of additional therapy; and some recovering addicts may need to undergo a residential program more than once.

    Rehab therapies and treatments teach life skills towards relapse avoidance, and motivated participants making an honest effort at recovery have a great opportunity to integrate all of the offered strategies and leave rehab well armed against temptation and continuing abuse.

    Although personal desire and motivation do influence success rates, participants do not necessarily need to show motivation at the beginning of treatment, and a desire to change often occurs as therapy progresses, and as self awareness and sober clarity grow.

    No rehab can offer a guarantee, but a residential rehab program offers the most intensive treatment, and the best chance at a better life of sobriety.

  • 300$ per month all the way up to $45,000 per month.

    Not knowing the exact pricing can be frustrating, but costs vary greatly depending on your needs, and even on your ability to pay. Insurance can defray most of the cost. For those with more limited means, or without insurance, residential treatment costs can be lower, even under $6,000 per month, and with financing, monthly payments may be as low as a few hundred dollars.

    Rehab is never cheap. A quality facility needs to employ doctors and nurses, psychologists and other mental heath professionals, nutritionists; and other therapeutic personnel. A rehab facility also incurs all of the expenses of housing and feeding a group of residents in a comfortable and private setting.

    The final costs of a rehab stay vary greatly depending upon the length of treatment required, and the intensity of therapies as needed. Pharmacological interventions can also increase the expense.

    Ultimately, the costs of rehab should never deter anyone needing treatment from benefiting from a residential drug treatment stay, and rehab costs can be considered an investment in a better and more productive life of sobriety. We have programs that begin at only $10 per day, and residential programs that start at $6,000 per month - and we work with hundreds of insurance providers.

    Whatever your financial situation, we can likely accommodate your needs.

  • 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 much, but the intensity as offered do, and recovering addicts benefit greatly when all of their focus centers on recovery.

  • All facilities featured on Choosehelp offer excellent and comprehensive medical care; and treatment will involve physicians, medical nurses, registered psychologists, psychiatrists, nutritionists and other addictions professionals.

    Patients will receive a physical evaluation during the initial assessment period, and will remain under constant medical observation should they need to progress firstly through a period of supervised detoxification. Detox, which can be dangerous and is always difficult, becomes more comfortable through the care and attention of trained medical staff.

    Nutritionists working with the facility will design healthful and appealing meals tailored to reverse any nutritional deficits and to restore as much of the health lost to addiction as is possible. When appropriate and required, physicians and psychiatrists may prescribe additional medications to ease some temporary symptoms of recovery.

    Patients exhibiting a dual diagnosis (addiction with an additional mental disorder) at admittance will receive more constant monitoring, as their individual circumstances warrant.

    Medical staff works closely with each recovering addict throughout their period of stay to enhance physical recovery and ensure safety and maximal comfort at all times.

  • Drug treatment ideally continues for a period of years, but the initial and residential phase of treatment may finish within 28 days. Every recovering addict has unique needs, and benefits from therapies at a personally defined pace. The length of inpatient treatment can vary depending on the severity and duration of the addiction; and some recovering addicts may benefit from a more extended period of inpatient care, up to a period of several months.

    A 28 day residential rehab offers an excellent foundation of therapy and recovery strategies, and provides enough training within for many to live better lives of sobriety. Whatever the duration of inpatient therapy, all recovering addicts benefit from a continuing participation in offered aftercare therapies, and aftercare should continue for months or even years after the end of residential treatment.

    Some recovering addicts perhaps lacking in family support, or lacking in confidence, may wish to transition out of rehab into a sober living or halfway house environment. This transitional period eases the stress accompanying a return to temptation within the community, and offers a supportive and sober environment, aftercare therapies, and the camaraderie of other recovering addicts.

    Every person struggling through substance use and abuse has unique needs to treatment, and what may prove sufficient for one, may not for another. 28 days of intensive therapy offers a great foundation, and if needed, extended residential or aftercare therapies remain available.

  • It depends on the type of medical cover you have. Treatment for mental health and substance abuse issues can be covered by most health insurances.

  • We feature residential and outpatient programs in most states.

  • All addicts protect their use behaviors with a stout wall of denial, and are remarkably able to ignore the obvious consequences of their substance use behaviors and continue to deny the existence of a problem.

    Contrary to common wisdom, addicts do not need to admit to a problem before entering into treatment to benefit, and many only acknowledge their dependency after sobriety is achieved, and after participation in group and peer therapies.

    The best way to effect change and prompt an entry intro treatment is through a family intervention. A concerned and non confrontational intervention presents the addict with irrefutable evidence of the effects of their behaviors, shows the concern and care of the family, and clearly presents the coming consequences should abuse continue unabated. Interventions are by far the most effective way to convince a reluctant addict of the need for treatment.

    Because substance abuse behaviors create an accompanying legacy of pain, anger and guilt; organizing an intervention can be emotionally complex, and it can sometimes be difficult to maintain the non confrontational tone needed for best effect.

    A professional and impartial intervention specialist can help to organize and moderate an effective intervention, and can even recommend appropriate treatment and arrange for immediate transportation to a drug treatment facility of your choice. Although you may choose to run a family only intervention, including an experienced professional increases the likelihood of success, and increases the probability that the using addict will accept the need for treatment, and proceed immediately from the intervention to the drug treatment that has been pre arranged for them.

    Advice on interventions and consultations with professional interventionists can be arranged through ChooseHelp.com.

  • The Choose Help facilities provide comprehensive treatment to all who need it, but programs are subdivided into treatments specific to teens, and to adults. Teens require different treatment interventions specific to the challenges of adolescence, and fare far better in age appropriate programming. Adults benefit from very similar therapies and interventions whether 18 or 75 years of age, and although young adults and seniors may share little in common socially, all in treatment share a commonality of addiction, and all share, learn and heal together. People struggling with substance abuse at any stage in life are welcome.

    It's never too late to battle an addiction, and the elderly benefit enormously from drug and alcohol rehab. Substance abuse needs to be treated at any age, and the elderly deserve equal access to quality treatment and an improved quality of life through sobriety.

  • The support of a loving family can be invaluable to an addict in recovery, and families can benefit enormously by participating in the recovery process, and by learning how best to support a recovering loved one once out of rehab and back in the community. Families are encouraged to participate in the therapeutic healing sessions, and will be invited to join in educational seminars, learning about the nature of addiction, and how best to offer constructive recovery support; and they will join in private whole family therapy sessions, where the family begins to heal some of the shared pain of substance abuse, and communally develops a whole family relapse prevention plan.

    Although the ultimate task of sobriety falls to the recovering addict alone, the loving support of a caring and educated family strengthens the recovering addict against relapse, and empowers the family to act proactively in assistance. Family participation in residential rehab is very beneficial to all involved.

    Note that policies for outside visitors and email and phone communication can vary for each facility featured on Choosehelp. Please, consult an admissions counselor for details via our central helpline.

  • It's tough to beat an addiction to drugs or alcohol, and because the struggle against dependency takes such an effort, recovering addicts shouldn’t need to worry about their environment, accommodations or meals. No one would suggest that a luxurious facility replaces the need for intensive and targeted therapies, but offering comfortable and private accommodations, and peaceful and tranquil surroundings, leaves the recovering addict free to focus solely on the efforts of recovery.

    ChooseHelp.com facilities boast well appointed private or semi private suites, immersed in natural beauty and conducive to stress free living, reflection and introspection. Drug treatment is never a vacation, but facilities and accommodations most closely resemble a quality resort, and are anything but institutional.

    Recovering addicts have enough work to do, and although luxury is no substitute for therapy, it does leave patients predisposed to focus solely on the lessons of recovery, without worries of their surroundings.

  • Because some working professionals have an increased need for confidential treatment and a need to remain connected to work responsibilities, executive rehabs exist to remove barriers to treatment access for those people unable to benefit from a conventional rehab experience.

    The perception of substance abuse can prove damaging to many senior professionals or executives, and as such executive rehab programs take additional measures to ensure complete confidentiality of care; and because executives are permitted to maintain some communications with the office and maintain certain work responsibilities while undergoing drug treatment, no one ever needs know about any participation in the program.

    ChooseHelp.com executive rehabs offer luxurious and tranquil environments and complete privacy; and although work involvement should be minimized to ensure the best likelihood of success, executives participating in treatment remain able to fulfill some essential work responsibilities as they undergo needed addictions therapies.

  • The existence of many psychiatric conditions increases the risks of substance abuse and addiction, and patients with depression, anxiety disorders, bi polar disorders and borderline personality disorders all suffer far higher rates of concurrent addiction that the general population.

    Unless the severity of psychiatric symptoms makes participation in a conventional rehab impossible or unsafe, clinical professionals recommend that the substance abuse behaviors be tackled intensely through a residential rehab program. Although existing psychiatric conditions won’t disappear with sobriety, they will almost always lessen in severity when symptoms exacerbating drugs of abuse are removed.

    Dual diagnosis patients benefit from the same addictions therapies as single diagnosis patients, but they will require an intensive pre intake assessment to ensure appropriate care, and they will require careful psychiatric monitoring throughout the period of treatment, with pharmacological intervention when necessary.

    Because a dual diagnosis complicates the treatment and ability to benefit from offered therapies, recovery normally requires a slightly longer period of residence.

    Dual diagnosis patients can and do beat addictions through the therapies of rehab, and because psychiatric symptoms are almost always worsened by illicit drug or alcohol abuse, it is imperative that these patients get treatment as soon as is possible.

  • Depending on the drug of abuse, some of the educational seminars and group sessions may vary, but essentially the drug treatment as offered centers around addiction recovery, regardless of the drug of use and abuse.

    Every patient entering into a ChooseHelp.com rehab will undergo a comprehensive pre assessment period, and addictions professionals will design a recovery plan tailored to the needs of the individual. Patients undergoing detox will receive medical attention and medications targeted to relieve the symptoms of detox, and may continue to receive drug or alcohol specific medications throughout the period of recovery.

    Individual and group therapies however are not focused on any particular drug or alcohol abuse, but on addiction…what makes us use, learning how to avoid relapse, and through self reflection and therapy, gaining better self awareness away from drug seeking behaviors.

    Each patient is medically treated as an individual, and care is designed to reverse the deficits of drug or alcohol abuse; but therapies focus on addiction and recovery, and are not drug specific. Regardless of the drug abused, substance abuse and addictions are very similar in nature, and the treatments and therapies do not differ greatly. Anyone with a drug or alcohol problem is welcome to benefit at ChooseHelp.com facilities.