Narconon Reviews Long Term Vs. Short Term Drug Rehab

How do I decide how long drug and alcohol treatment should be?  Can I really be free of addiction in 30 days? Is there a benefit in going to treatment for longer?  Which one yields the best results; short term or long term?

Programs like Narconon Vista Bay provide answers to these questions through their well-founded results based treatment programs.

Short Term vs. Long Term Drug Rehab

There is inevitably a time when addiction approaches a level where immediate action is needed to prevent further decay of one’s life and a drug and/or alcohol treatment center is needed.  A point when families and friends can no longer bear to see the destruction of their loved ones left to their own devices.  Often the addict has become estranged from their families due to the overwhelming desire to stop bringing chaos and sorrow into their family unit, because, despite the self-destructive actions being committed, the person is deep down a good person wanting their family to be happy.  Even if this means they are not present or as present in the family.  Herein lays the trap, the situation rarely improves.  If the family and friends could fix the person’s problem, free them from the harmful effects of drugs, they would.  It would have already been done and the person wouldn’t require further help to battle their addiction. Not being the case, most families turn to the help of the professionals in this.

Here are some definitions which may help:

• Short term treatment is very common in drug and alcohol rehabilitation.  This is classified as continued care for a length of stay measuring around 28-30 days total.
• Long term treatment has a much wider scope of help to be given and thusly the time frames are longer.  The length of stay ranges from 60-90 days all the way out to a year.  Uncommon are the centers which encourage a stay of two years.

Narconon Vista Bay, and treatment centers like it, falls into the latter of the above categories.  Government studies have shown higher success and longer lasting results the longer the treatment time line is.  The addict has usually progressed to point of needing this care over a long period of time.  This tends to mean that the solution will most likely take a bit of time.  The benefit of long term care being that the individual is given ample opportunity to resolve any issues which led to the use in the first place.  Having the additional time to allow these issues to surface naturally prevents the person from having to know what they are and share them in a prescribed amount of time.

One of the main problems with short term care has to do with the withdrawal symptoms the person experiences.  Depending on the drug of choice, the acute withdrawals are eased and usually subside at the week and a half to two week mark.  After that, people still report feeling that the fog of their addiction has not lifted until week three.  This leaves one week of care, free of the initial withdrawals, for the person to receive uninhibited care and get all of their issues resolved to re-enter lives rehabilitated.  Unfortunately, by this point the addict sees that they are only one week from being back to their lives; and the counting of days begins.  This is true of even the most well intentioned patients.  They begin the stay at the treatment facility ready to do whatever it takes to get clean.  By the end they are willing to do whatever it takes to get home and back to their lives.  This is not say that short term treatment in ineffective for all, success rates do exist but for above stated reasons, relapse rates are very high as well.  It is not uncommon for person to go in and out of 28 day facilities repeatedly and finally end up in a long term treatment center where the amount of time they are there is not at the forefront of care.  All of which is an emotional and financial drain on the family supporting them.

Long Term Care from Narconon

The open-ended approach that Narconon Vista Bay uses leaves these life changing moments even less inhibited from staying unresolved.  It is Vista Bay’s firm belief that no one can tell someone exactly how long it will take for them achieve lasting sobriety.  This means there is no expressed length of stay for the Narconon Program, stays quite often range from 4-6 months depending on the results achieved. Each person is different and the rehabilitation they undergo needs to be tailored to rebuilding that person’s life.  Insomuch as the person took as long as they did to get in the door of the treatment facility, so should it be that they attain their own results in the amount of time it takes them to do so.  No more, no less.  When a person is leaving a treatment center the goal is that they will feel like they have regained the control over their lives, control which had been lost, or at minimum put towards the self-destruction including the abuse of substances.  Narconon Vista Bay reviews the industry and is leading the field in this avant-garde, results based drug and alcohol treatment modality.

In choosing what length of time to put into effective treatment or to become emotionally and financially invested in, it will be important to remain objective as to the truth of the circumstances.  There will most likely be no easy solution to this addiction.  The results of what is the desired outcome should trump what addict thinks is best, because let’s face their choices have not been healthy so far.  The ones choosing a path of treatment should be loved ones who are not actively addicted to substances.  Guided by truth and looking for lasting sobriety at any cost, you provide them a new life.