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Drug rehabilitation centres

Drug rehabilitation centres 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.

These drug rehabilitation centres offer various types of alcohol rehabilitation programme which include twelve step drug rehabilitation programmes, therapeutic community rehabilitation, religious based rehabilitation, and medical model rehabilitation. The most common type of drug rehabilitation model is the 12 step method of variations of this.

For many drug rehabilitation centres, residents must be drug and alcohol free (apart from tobacco) although some will provide an initial medically supervised drug detox.

Drug rehabilitation centres provide a structured programme of educational, psychological and social therapy, which aims at preparing the former drug addict to cope better with a drug-free life back in society. The length of stay at drug rehabilitation centres varies in length from one to ten months.

This Glossary article was created on 10th January 2010