Outpatient Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers
Outpatient clinics are less structured and offer treatment in a routine way to people who don’t need a rigid structure to follow sobriety in life. This treatment is good for people who are not in acute withdrawal and are in touch with the routine of daily life. The patient in these centres is usually referred by the courts, families and employers due to a life event. The main aim of these clinics is to cure the patient’s drug and alcohol problem along with the social and psychological problems and give him a long term success.
Multi disciplinary approach treatment is offered in many of these out patient clinics though there are many different treatments which can be adopted. There are different models of treatment like medical, therapeutic, community, social, religious and holistic along with the 12 step family based models.
Many outpatient rehab centers will offer some of the following services:
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
- 12-step work
- Alcohol and drug education
- Spirituality group
- Men’s group
- Women’s group
- Relapse prevention
- Short and long-term aftercare
- Life skills
- Re-socialization skills
- Pharmacological treatment
- Mental health treatment
- Drug screening
- Legal system advocacy
- Affiliations with sober living houses
Majority of the outpatient clinics not only treat the patients medical needs but it also takes care of its social, psychological, emotional and spiritual ones too. As they want to make the individuals confident and contributing members of the society who can live a crime free and fully functional life. Out patient clinics are of the view that soberity involves just more than treating the biological though chemical dependency maybe be a biological diseases. Full term recovery develops a caring support system in order to in order to maintain sobriety and help mature an develop, individuals in different levels.