Canada offers a wide range of substance misuse treatment settings. Understanding the available options is a solid first step. Here, you’ll find overviews of the most prevalent types with links for further details.
Settings cater to an individual’s preferences and degree of addiction. Facility settings that are tailored to the specific needs and challenges of the individual yield more favourable outcomes. It also makes them more comfortable in the proper environment.
Nonetheless, there are treatment settings that consistently produce more positive results, regardless of the individual’s circumstances.
Continue reading to explore the availabilities in this country. Please don’t hesitate to call us if you need assistance or have any questions.
In group therapy, participants share and discuss problems and concerns and work toward resolving them. A trained addiction counsellor monitors the session and ensures smooth and productive communication within the group. The aim is to heighten the individual’s awareness of their issues by talking and sharing with others. The person can see that they are not alone in living with life issues and can help others by the same token.
The facilities offering this service generally offer one to two sessions weekly with a certified addiction counsellor. The counsellor listens, helps individuals with their life issues, and works through difficult situations. There is more about these types of counselling here.
Regular detox is a method in which the person will enter a live-in program to stop using their particular drug of choice. In most cases, the person receives daily interviews to encourage them through their detox and seek further help. This type of detox will generally take between 3 to 10 days. You can read more on regular detox here.
A medical detox service applies when a person is on prescription medication for a physical condition and uses illicit drugs or alcohol. It is a service with 24-hour medical supervision. Health professionals must wean the person carefully off the lethal combination before rehabilitation can start.
It has much to do with a person’s physical condition. Such drugs as methadone, “Benzo” type medications, Morphine, Oxycontin, Percocet, and other pain suppressant drugs alone or combined may require monitoring blood pressure and heart rate to avoid seizures and other complications. Treatment specialists will often recommend a person with substantial or long-term alcohol abuse a medically assisted detox. Find out more about this type of withdrawal.
Many drug rehab types considered “long-term” begin at eight weeks and can be as long as two years. Residential means the person stays on the premises. The program will often include daily chores or community atmospheres where each will contribute to the group.
Other residential treatments will have a curriculum much like school or college, with morning, afternoon, and evening activities. A long-term treatment program may include medical service advisers and addiction counsellors.
When referring to short-term treatments, the drug rehabilitation center in question usually delivers a 21 to 30-day program. These are treatment programs that deal with addiction in various methodologies, including 12-step programs and group counselling.
Despite the fact that the program is short-term, the person stays at the facility. You can find out more about short-term and long-term rehab types here.
Outpatient is just that. The person is not required to stay at the facility where services are delivered. The person lives at home but must show up at various counselling sessions. Usually, non-residential programs are publicly sponsored; a few are private. They assist someone who may have a very hectic lifestyle and can only free up a few hours per week. It is suitable for someone with a light addiction problem. More on outpatient or residential programs here.
A unique virtual service that we deliver. It focuses on applying life skills to obtain results in their application. The individual becomes aware of how the world around them affects them and how they affect the world. The person learns methods to increase their survival potential and achieve the goal of being in control, by choice, over drugs or alcohol consumption. Find out more about recovery coaching here.
There are other rehab settings in Canada. Among these, you can find:
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