Is Living at an Inpatient Rehab Facility Really Necessary?
Drug abuse affects a person’s life on multiple levels, disrupting normal bodily functioning, warping emotions and driving destructive behavior patterns. Whereas one person may only see minimal to moderate effects from random drug use, another may develop a full-blown addiction as of the first time trying a drug. Likewise, each person’s treatment needs vary depending on the extent of destruction drug abuse causes in one’s daily life.
Inpatient rehab facilities specialize in treating the most severe forms of addiction. For someone who’s used drugs on a daily basis for months or years, functioning in everyday life becomes increasingly difficult as drug effects compromise his or her physical and mental well-being. Under these conditions, living at an inpatient rehab facility becomes necessary in terms of the level of care needed to help a person overcome addiction.
Inpatient Rehab Facility Treatment Benefits
A Clean Break from the Addiction Lifestyle
Inpatient rehabs provide intensive behavioral therapies.
After so many months or years of compulsive drug use, addicts develop a lifestyle that’s designed to support and perpetuate drug abuse, according to the Department of Health & Human Services. While programs that allow a person to live at home still offer certain benefits, someone who’s developed an addiction-based lifestyle won’t be able to resist the temptation to use on a day-by-day basis. Inpatient rehab facilities offer a clean break from the addiction lifestyle where a person can focus his or her time and focus on getting well.
Call our helpline at 800-430-1407Who Answers? to see if your insurance will help pay your rehab costs.
Round-the-Clock Care & Monitoring
Long-time addicts well know how uncomfortable withdrawal episodes can be. Once a person stops using drugs, he or she stands to experience the very worst of what withdrawal has to offer. Even after the initial one to two week period of severe withdrawal passes, it’s not uncommon for a person to experience what’s known as protracted withdrawal, which can last anywhere from three to six months.
Under these conditions, the round-the-clock care and monitoring available through an inpatient rehab facility becomes the only thing that stands between continued abstinence and an untimely relapse.
Behavioral Treatment
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the effects of long-term drug abuse inevitably alter the areas of the brain that regulate thinking, emotions and overall psychological well-being. In effect, long-time drug users develop an addiction-based mindset in terms of what they think about, what motivates them and what holds priority in their day-to-day lives.
Inpatient rehab facilities provide intensive behavioral treatment interventions in the form of psychotherapy, group therapy and drug education. These interventions help a person develop healthy ways of thinking and coping with life’s pressures on a day-to-day basis.
Considerations
The inconvenience of uprooting one’s life to enter drug treatment may seem over-the-top, especially for people who have work and family obligations to meet. That being so, not getting the level of care needed to overcome addiction can cause even more problems down the road. Ultimately, someone who needs the type of care available through inpatient rehab facilities will only end up using again in the absence of needed treatment supports.
If you or someone you know are considering entering an inpatient rehab facility and 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.
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