Addiction treatment programs tend to refer to the various types of what are effectively therapeutic programs that a rehab or a treatment center will use as their basis for helping an individual recover from alcoholism and other types of substance abuse addiction or various types of behavioural addiction.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of rehabs, all of whom will in some sense claim that they have the most effective addiction treatment programs available as a way of helping individuals recover from addiction. It is worth being very wary of any rehab treatment center which claims a high success rate, simply because it is virtually impossible to know whether any of the claims are accurate or not.
The recovery process from alcoholism and other types of addiction is a very complex one, and there are many factors that can affect an individual’s ability to get well, in the context of a recovery program.
The majority of rehabs that base their addiction treatment programs on the twelve step model of Alcoholics Anonymous will often put a heavy emphasis on what is effectively step one of this process, trying to get to the individual to acknowledge that they have a problem with alcohol or other drugs or substances.
It is a bit of a cliché but true nonetheless that a big part of the problem facing any alcoholic is acknowledging that they have a problem with alcohol and acknowledging the need to do something about it.
Addiction Treatment Programs – Treatment Centers
A rehab or treatment center will need to assess whether an individual needs a medical detox or not, and once that has been completed, if needed, then the majority of work done in the rehab will be of a therapeutic nature.
It is important for any rehab or treatment center that claims to offer effective addiction treatment programs to understand the nature of alcoholism, and how the denial of the fact that an individual has a problem is effectively a defence mechanism.
A number of rehabs and treatment centres will employ as part of their staffing arrangements a number of members of Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous in various clinical positions such as nurses, therapists, councillors or various alternative practitioners.
If a rehab does not have any members of AA on staff, then it is likely to have a number of volunteer members of AA and NA who will come into the rehab on a regular basis to offer support and encouragement to impatient clients who are undergoing the addiction treatment programs offered by the rehab.