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If you or someone you care for is suffering from alcohol or other drug addiction, your best chance to get back your life or to save the life of your friend or loved one is an effective drug rehab program.

However, most people don't know what programs are effective and what ones aren't. As stated on the Home Page,we have the experience and professional integrity to help you decide which ones are worthy of your consideration.

When looking for a drug rehab or alcohol addiction treatment center, it is important to remember that results are what matter most. Anything less than a cure translates into continued addiction, personal and family pain and, ultimately prison or death.

Rehab-drug.net. offers you free alcohol and drug rehab assessments and referrals so you can find an alcohol or drug rehabilitation center that will handle this problem completely so that you or your loved one can lead normal, healthy, happy and productive life.

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What is Addiction

Go to this page for an article that will explain addiction so that you won't have any misconceptions of how it can effect your life or that of a loved one. You will also want to settle the ambiguity of whether someone is morbidly addicted (meaning that they addiciton will cause them physical and psychological harm) or is it merely a strong attraction towards a particular activity.

Drug Rehab Programs

Below you will find some of the models of alcohol and drug treatment or rehab that are available. Each one of these modalities has some graduates that swear by its model as being the only type of drug rehabilitation that is effective and that the others are a waste of time. Any rehabilitation field that has such diverse forms of treatment must either be so young in its development as to not have codified what works and doesn't work or no one has yet to find an effective form of treatment. We are happy to tell you that it is the former and not the latter. This is a new field and many of the modalities of treatment that are being sworn by as being the answer by some have not been able to help the majority and are therefore alcohol and drug rehab centers that may not make it if they aren't ready and able to change their treatment regime to meet what works! Most rehab programs have many different types of clinical practices within each program, in an attempt to find something that will work for everyone. They may have group therapy, individual therapy, art therapy, psycho drama, family therapy, meditation, accupuncture, co-counseling, peer counseling, and many other types of "therapies" that become part of a specific treatment center's attempts to end addiction.

This may seem bizarre and, indeed it is, but it is also a testiment to the fact that these centers have a strong intention and desire to help others stop their alcohol and drug abuse and addiction. What is even more bizarre is that fact that one of these modalities gets about four to ten times higher outcomes than the rest, but the other programs won't recognize the truth as being of value when constructing a treatment programs.

All of this is to say that when you are searching for effective alcohol and drug treatment or a specific drug treatment center, you are best served by talking to our counselors so that you can get specific information on how any rehab center will work in relation to your problem. We get many calls for people that are looking for a detox center who really need a residential inpatient treatment center, but they have been informed by someone that is not knowledgeable in what works and doesn't work, that detox or outpatient treatment is all that is needed.

Another major misunderstanding by many of the public seeking rehab is the idea that if their loved one has depression or severe anxiety, that they need a dual diagnosis treatment center. It must be understood that nearly everyone that is addicted to alcohol and drugs will have behaviors that can easily fit a psychiatric diagnosis and they definitely have a chemical imbalance since they are pushing as many chemicals in their bodies as they can, but a good drug rehabilitation center that can remove from their bodies the residues of the years of chemical abuse, will put an end to those mental problems that were diagnosed as a separate disease.

Remember that you or your loved one will not get the care they need or disserve if they are in a dual diagnosis treatment center unless they truly have a psychiatric problem like schizophrenia or true mania. All persons on alcohol and/or drugs will have periods where they could be seen as being manic-depressive or severely depressed, but 95% of the time, these are NOT organic diseases, but only reactions to the drugs they have been taking and the toxic nature of their bodies. Thorough and effective addiction treatment will handle these problems. Call our counselors and they will help you discern if there is an underlying mental health problem.

1. 12-Step Based Programs/Disease Model Programs: Many of the alcohol and drug rehab programs across the US are based on the idea that addiction is a chronic and progressive disease; meaning that it last forever (chronic) and gets worse with time (progressive). Generically, these programs are referred to as "disease model" programs, simply because they believe that addiction is a disease. Most of the alcohol and drug rehab programs that are 21 to 30 days in length are based on this model. To Learn about these 12-step based programs....Click Here

2. Therapeutic Communities Treatment Centers: These drug rehab programs were first developed in the 1960s by well-meaning individuals that were attempting to confront addiction with methods that would be effective on animals; causing them to shy away painful stimuli and from wanting to repeat their behaviors. However, in time, it has proven that these Pavlovian model programs are not successful for human addicts. Learn More...Click HERE.

3. Christian-based Treatment: Many parents call our hotline requesting a Christian-based treatment program for the son or daughter and it is thoroughly understandable and lovingly tender to think that one would have an idea that Christian love, forgiveness, and ethics could address and solve the addiction of their children. The mature behaviors that one sees in devout Christians or devoutly religious persons of any religion are far from the behaviors of an addict or alcoholic. Learn more about these types of programs by Clicking Here.

4. Medical Model Drug Rehab Centers: When ones refers to a "medical model" alcohol treatment or drug rehab, they may be talking about one of the other models of programs present on this page, but delivered within the confines of a Medical/Surgical hospital. More correctly, these programs should be labeled by their type of treatment and not their location. Medical model drug rehab programs would be those programs that use medicines/drugs to handle the addiction, such as Narcotic Treatment Programs or, better known as, Methadone clinics. To learn more, Click Here...

5. Biophysical / Social Educational model Programs: These alcohol and drug rehab facilities have been in existence since the 1960's, but it is only in the past 15 years that they have garnered the recognition they disserve. They are by far and away the most effective and thorough of all rehab centers, producing graduates that function with more pro-social and pro-survival knowledge and behaviors than is seen in any of the other forms of treatment. Click Here to Learn More...

6. Long-term Drug Rehab Programs: There exist ample misinformation as to the value of long term drug rehab vs. short term rehab programs. Certainly it takes more than 28 days to handle addiction, but the common wisdom that the longer the alcohol and drug treatment program keeps the addict or alcoholic, the better the outcomes. This has limited validity, but more importantly, is what are they doing while they are in long term rehab? Click Here to Learn More...

7. Short-Term Drug Rehab Programs: Short-Term Residential Programs provide intensive but relatively brief residential treatment based on a modified 12-step approach and many other modifications, depending on the desires of their leadership and their marketing approach rather than on positive outcomes. Click Here to Learn More....

8. Teen Drug Rehab: As a counselor in the alcohol and drug field you often hear an addict or an alcoholic state that they can't imagine how they ever got from their happy childhood to being where they are today. As parents, we do all we can to help save our children from pain and disappointment, but when it comes to the ambivlence that our society has regarding the use of alcohol and drugs, we are too often surprised by the reality that one of our children or a neighbor child is in a desparate condition because of alcohol and/or drugs. Click Here to Learn More...

9. Cost of Drug Rehab: Cost analysis of what society pays for untreated substance abuse is much higher than the cost of providing free alcohol and drug treatment, however, there is still a large waste of public money being spent on programs that are not state-of-the-art treatment that can get five times better outcomes. These effective drug treatment programs are minimally more expensive than the short-term treatment that is being provided by State and Federal Block Grant money. But more importantly, what will it cost the reader to get effective alcohol and drug treatment for themselves or a loved one? Click Here to Learn More....