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Drug Rehabilitation clinics

Drug Rehabilitation clinics are places that provide care and support to former drug users to enable them to return to a healthy life after a period of illness from their addiction. 

Drug rehabilitation clinics provide care and support for people suffering from addiction to drugs such as heroin, cocaine or opiate substances.  Many drug rehabilitation clinics also provide support for people with alcoholism requiring alcohol rehab.

Some rehabilitation clinics will provide both the medical and psychological care needed to treat the addiction. This will include the initial medically supervised drug detox and then be followed by a longer period of drug rehabilitation.

Other rehabilitation clinics specialise only in the ongoing rehab treatment so will require any medical detox to have taken place first.

Studies have shown that the most successful drug rehabilitation centres are those which provide a range of different activities specifically tailed to the individuals. This enables better coping with life without drugs afterwards.

This Glossary article was created on 10th January 2010