What Happens After Detox? Treating Addiction at the Root
Is Detox Enough?
Even when drug or alcohol addiction does not require a medical detox, it is usually the best place to get started on the road to recovery. Drug and alcohol detox can provide the drug-free environment, support, and medication-assisted treatment necessary to successfully complete the withdrawal symptoms process. Although medical detox is a great foundation for addiction recovery, it is only the first step.
Drug detox is usually not enough to achieve long-term sobriety. When substance abuse leads to drug addiction, several physical and mental aspects lead to the disorders. While drug detox can provide physical stabilization, it does not treat the behavioral, emotional, and psychological aspects of addiction which can be the root cause. This is especially true for those with co-occurring disorders who use substance abuse as a way to escape or self-medicate their mental health symptoms.
There are a few cases in which medical detox is enough. For some prescription drug addicts, medications such as sleeping pills and antidepressants only cause physical dependence, and they only need help to ease withdrawal symptoms so they can get off their medications. Prescription drug detox may be enough in these cases. However, they may still be dealing with mental health disorders like depression which require behavioral health treatment to overcome and prevent the need for further medications. Some recovery centers double as mental health institutes especially if they offer dual diagnosis treatment and personalized treatment plans. Individuals can continue with some form of inpatient or outpatient treatment program that will address their mental health symptoms without alcohol addiction or drug addiction treatment.
The Next Steps After Drug and Alcohol Detox
After physical stabilization through detox programs, you can easily transition into an alcohol rehab or drug rehab that will address and treat the root cause of addiction. Several levels of care are available depending on the severity of your substance abuse, and your treatment program can be made up of several levels of care. Following through with a step-down addiction treatment plan that takes you through more intensive treatment options and into flexible, supportive treatment programs will provide you with your best chance at addiction recovery.
Levels of care available after medically assisted detox include:
Residential Inpatient Treatment
The most intensive form of drug addiction treatment, you will be required to reside at the treatment facility and have a highly structured treatment plan.
Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
Similar in the intensity of weekly treatments to residential inpatient treatment, but will allow you to live at home or in a sober living facility. You will commute to the treatment facility several days a week for full days of substance abuse treatment therapies.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
More flexible intensive treatment options where you live at home or a sober living facility, but can schedule your addiction treatments around your home, school, or work obligations.
Outpatient treatment
The most flexible addiction treatment option is scheduling your drug treatment therapies around your personal or work obligations and only commuting to the treatment facility a few times a week for an hour to two.
Aftercare Planning
As you graduate from your rehab program, planning will include continued individual therapy, 12-step programs, and following through with your relapse prevention plan.
Alumni Program
Many rehab centers provide a lifetime alumni program to help you keep active and accountable in your recovery.
Detox and Addiction Programs at Novo Detox
Novo Detox is part of a nationwide network of addiction treatment centers providing all levels of care from detox programs to inpatient residential treatment and outpatient treatment options. We are fully accredited by the Joint Commission. Our medical detox center at Novo provides patients with around-the-clock monitoring from highly skilled, licensed medical teams and medication-assisted treatment. You can then easily transition into your personalized inpatient treatment program. Please give us a call at (844) 834-1777 today if you would like to learn more about our drug rehab programs.
