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Drug rehabilitation centres in South Africa

Drug rehabilitation centres in South Africa provide a period of residential rehabilitation for people suffering the effects of drug addiction.  These drug rehabilitation centres provide treatment in the form of counselling and learning activities to help people adjust to a life without drugs. Many of the centres in South Africa provide high quality care at lower cost than comparable drug rehabilitation centres in Europe or the US. They are used both by local South Africans but also by those from other countries who can disguise their treatment to friends and colleagues as a long holiday.

Drug rehabilitation centres in South Africa provide a structured programme of educational, psychological and social therapy. These centres provide treatment which aims to prepare the former drug addict to cope better with a drug-free life back in society. The length of stay at drug rehabilitation centres in South Africa varies in length from one to ten months. Many of these South African drug rehabilitation centres provide external activities and visits as part of the recovery programme.  

There are drug rehabilitation centres in many parts of South Africa, and as expected they are concentrated at main towns such as Cape Town and Johannesburg and Kwa-ulu Natal.

This Glossary article was created on 10th December 2009