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Drug Rehab and Drug Addiction
Treatment
Drug Rehab and Drug
Treatment
Drug addiction can be overcome. Through treatment
that is tailored to individual needs, patients can learn to control their
condition and live normal, productive lives. Like people with diabetes or heart
disease, people in treatment for drug addiction learn behavioral
changes.
Behavioral therapies can include counseling, support groups, or
family therapy.
In general, the more treatment given, the better the
results. Many patients require other services as well, such as medical and
mental health services and HIV prevention services. Patients who stay in a drug
rehab longer than 3 months usually have better outcomes than those who stay
less time. Patients who go through medically assisted withdrawal to minimize
discomfort but do not receive any further treatment, perform about the same in
terms of their drug use as those who were never treated. Over the last 25
years, studies have shown that treatment works to reduce drug intake and crimes
committed by drug-dependent people. Researchers also have found that drug
abusers who have been through treatment are more likely to have jobs.
Types of Drug Rehab Treatment
Programs
The ultimate goal of all drug rehab treatment is to
enable the patient to achieve lasting abstinence, but the immediate goals are
to reduce drug use, improve the patient's ability to function, and minimize the
medical and social complications of drug abuse.
There are several types
of drug rehab treatment programs. Short-term methods last less than 6 months
and include residential therapy, medication therapy, and drug-free outpatient
therapy. Longer term treatment may include, for example, methadone maintenance
outpatient treatment for opiate addicts and residential therapeutic community
treatment.
In this stable state, the patient is able to disengage from
drug-seeking and related criminal behavior and, with appropriate counseling and
social services, become a productive member of his or her community.
Outpatient drug-free treatment does not include medications and
encompasses a wide variety of programs for patients who visit a clinic at
regular intervals. Most of the programs involve individual or group counseling.
Patients entering these programs are abusers of drugs other than opiates or are
opiate abusers for whom maintenance therapy is not recommended, such as those
who have stable, well-integrated lives and only brief histories of drug
dependence.
Therapeutic communities (TCs) are highly structured
programs in which patients stay at a residence, typically for 6 to 12 months.
Patients in TCs include those with relatively long histories of drug
dependence, involvement in serious criminal activities, and seriously impaired
social functioning. The focus of the TC is on the resocialization of the
patient to a drug-free, crime-free lifestyle.
Short-term residential
programs, often referred to as chemical dependency units, are often based on
the "Minnesota Model" of treatment for alcoholism. These programs involve a 3-
to 6-week inpatient treatment phase followed by extended outpatient therapy or
participation in 12-step self-help groups, such as Narcotics Anonymous or
Cocaine Anonymous. Chemical dependency programs for drug abuse arose in the
private sector in the mid-1980s with insured alcohol/cocaine abusers as their
primary patients. Today, as private provider benefits decline, more programs
are extending their services to publicly funded patients.
Methadone
maintenance programs are usually more successful at retaining clients with
opiate dependence than are therapeutic communities, which in turn are more
successful than outpatient programs that provide psychotherapy and counseling.
Within various methadone programs, those that provide higher doses of methadone
(usually a minimum of 60 mg.) have better retention rates. Also, those that
provide other services, such as counseling, therapy, and medical care, along
with methadone generally get better results than the programs that provide
minimal services.
Drug treatment programs in prisons can succeed in
preventing patients' return to criminal behavior, particularly if they are
linked to community-based programs that continue treatment when the client
leaves prison. Some of the more successful programs have reduced the rearrest
rate by one-fourth to one-half. For example, the "Delaware Model," an ongoing
study of comprehensive treatment of drug- addicted prison inmates, shows that
prison-based treatment including a therapeutic community setting, a work
release therapeutic community, and community-based aftercare reduces the
probability of rearrest by 57 percent and reduces the likelihood of returning
to drug use by 37 percent. |
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