Essay 2

Caitlin Matifas

Professer Kerr

English 101-23

Essay 2

      When it is discovered one has a serious drug or alochol addiction the hardest desicon for them, and their loved ones to make is wether or not rehab is required. Once that is decided there is another question at hand. Inpatient treatment, a live-in facility providing twenty-four care. Or outpatient treatment, meetings with a doctor a few times a week and educational classes. Whichever treatment plan is choosen it has to be most effective for the patient.

     Inpatient rehabs are hospitals where patients with drug or alchol addictions stay for extended periods of times (it differs on the patients and the level of the addiction, or drug). This takes the patient aways from there normal surrondings, people they used to abuse drugs or alochol with (staying around people they used to use with is the number one reason for relapse), and gives them time to make a full recovery (IDR). Inpatient rehab is very scheduled and has many activities to keep the patients busy and produtive. There is many group therapys that include things such as music therapy. ( Start the Healing) Inpaitent rehab also focuses on teaching patients life skills, and family system workshops. Along with the group therapy patients aslo underago individual therapy. (Start the Healing) Inpatient rehabs do try to make the stay enjoyable thought, sometimes they even have pools and basketball courts. Rehabs can be expensive though but often times insurance will pick up most of the cost. Every Inpatient rehab facilty is different and may have different focuses and credintails , so it is important to check into the faciltiy before actually checking into it to make sure you get the indivdual care you need (Drug Rehab Drug Rehabilitation Drug Addiction Treatment Programs and Alcohol Rehab Centers). Inpatient rehab does have a higher success rate than out patient rehab due to the fact that a few hours a day with a doctor is just not enough to break an addict from using, they need to be taken away from their surrondings and temptations completely ( Drug Rehab – Inpatient or Outpatient?).

     Much different from inpatient rehab is out patient rehab. Out patient rehab means that you create your own treatment plan. You will be expected to attened NA ( Narcotics anyomous), AA ( Alcoholics anyomous), along with support groups, educational classes on the effects of drugs and alcohol, and therapy. Often times for people with addictions this is too much structure to stay commited too on their own and they relapse. ( Drug Rehab – Inpatient or Outpatient?) Also those who choose out patient rehab are still in the surroundings they started in. They still have all the same temtations to use as they did in the first place. This is why outpatient treatment alone does not normally work. Finding drugs in NA is probably easier than finding drugs in the streets.

    It is important after making the hard decision that rehab is nesicary, to take some time and research both inpaitent and out paitent facility's for treatment. Both are very different and effective in seperate ways. They have different costs, different time schedules, and rates of succuess.

Works Cited

Inpatient Drug Rehab. Web. 27 Sept. 2011. <http://inpatientdrugrehab.org/>.

Start the Healing - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers, Alcohol Drug Detox, Alcohol Detox rteatment | The Treatment Center. Web. 27 Sept. 2011. <http://www.thetreatmentcenter.com/>.

Drug Rehab Drug Rehabilitation Drug Addiction Treatment Programs and Alcohol Rehab Centers. Web. 29 Sept. 2011. <http://www.drug-rehabs.com/>.

"Drug Rehab – Inpatient or Outpatient?"  Alcoholism Recovery Addiction Alcoholics Anonymous Drug Treatment Center. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. <http://www.recoveryzone.org/docs/articles/drug-rehab-inpatient-or-outpatient.html>.