Addiction Treatment

21/02/2010

The formal and cohesive delivery of a professional range of services from a multidisciplinary addictions team, including out-patient (after-hours rehab), in-patient treatment including detoxification, group therapy, individual counselling, didactic lectures on addiction consequences and recovery paths out of active addiction.

When a person suffering from the disease of addiction enters a treatment programme, whether as an in-patient, an out-patient, or begins sessions with a counsellor, psychiatrist or psychologist, they are starting the process of addiction treatment.

This is a term primarily associated with drug addiction. Other types of treatment of addictive behaviours include alcoholism treatment, eating disorder treatment, gambling addiction treatment, co-dependency treatment and sex addiction treatment.