The Benefits of Residential Rehab Vs Outpatient Treatment

Having alcohol treatment at home is possible, for some. However, understanding the benefits of residential alcohol treatment can be crucial for those seeking a more structured environment.

Being in your own surroundings, not having to share your inner demons with people you have never met before sounds reassuring compared to residential alcohol treatment, which offers structured support.

Having to turn off your phone while in a group, dining with others, having structured days and having your thoughts challenged by a therapist sounds too stressful? Yet, the benefits of treatment in a residential environment include professional support.

Having a detox at home is only available to some. There are very clear national clinical guidelines. However, even those who are able to have treatment at home tend to relapse: Fast. Residential programs can address these issues comprehensively.

Why? Because unless you deal with the reason as to why you were drinking, you won’t stay sober. Residential alcohol treatment helps individuals uncover these underlying causes.

The Benefits of Residential Treatment

In a residential treatment center, a multidisciplinary team is there to provide every aspect of the care you will need in order to stay on a trajectory of recovery. Embracing the numerous benefits offered by residential treatment can be transformative.

From the start, you will be assessed by an experienced addictions clinician who will draw up a treatment plan with the necessary medication needed to detox: Safely. Expert-guided residential alcohol treatment is all about ensuring safe recovery.

Nurses and support staff will monitor you as well as provide you with the prescribed medication, liaising closely with your addictions clinician. If any adjustments are needed to your treatment plan, these can be made with little delay, thanks to the benefits of residential alcohol treatment.

Staff are on hand 24/7. Cravings have a habit of being more intense when you can’t sleep. At 2AM, if you need help, there will be someone to assist you. Residential treatment provides continuous support.

Most of the staff who work in rehab are in active recovery themselves. While everyone’s experience of addiction is different, there are common themes. They understand the benefits of residential alcohol treatment personally.

Therapy

Therapy is all about looking at the reasons behind your drinking. Residential alcohol treatment deeply explores these underlying issues.

Unresolved trauma from childhood, PTSD, family problems, work stress: Whatever it is, without resolving it, you will relapse. This is why the benefits of residential alcohol treatment include targeted therapy.

Alcohol addiction is not a choice. No one wakes up one day and makes a conscious choice to become an alcoholic. Residential treatment helps you understand this aspect comprehensively.

People drink to escape from what they cannot deal with. If you fix the reasons why you drink, you are far more likely to stay sober. Residential treatment assists in tackling these personal challenges effectively.

Relapse Prevention

Residential rehab provides a structured, risk adverse environment that is totally focused on your recovery and wellbeing.

When you go home you are, more or less, on your own.

Alcohol is available everywhere: Corner shops, petrol stations and supermarkets. It can be ordered on the internet.

Parties, social gatherings, even funerals: It is difficult to escape.

Knowing how to navigate problematic situations forms a central part of the relapse prevention skills you will learn in rehab.

Aftercare

Your recovery doesn’t end when you leave rehab.

All rehab centres provide a minimum of a years aftercare. This is usually a combination of weekly support groups and telephone check in.

If you find yourself struggling, there will be a dedicated number to call for support.

The Drawbacks of Home Alcohol Treatment

Home alcohol treatment is not an option for everyone.

For those who are eligible, most companies who provide treatment at home do so illegally.

Our clinicians do not provide at home alcohol treatment but will provide a referral, without charge, to one that provides a legally registered service.

At home detox is just that: A detox. It will never deal with the reasons as to why you are drinking. Relapse is very, very common for those who have treatment at home.

“I Have Been in Rehab Before. I know Whatr I am Doing”

This is something we hear a lot.

Sadly, it just isn’t true.

Relapse happens with those in recovery from addiction just as it does for other chronic illnesses such as diabetes and asthma.

Just as you would not try and treat an asthma crisis at home, neither would you try and treat yourself for alcohol addiction simply because you have previously been in rehab.

Quick fixes are just that: They don’t last.

Is Home Treatment A Lower Cost Alternative?

No.

At home alcohol treatment is very often more expensive than residential treatment.

While the vast majority of residential treatment centres won’t take clients for a week, some will and our clinicians can signpost you to one that will. We do not charge for making a referral.

Pills in the Post

A lot of home alcohol treatment companies provide treatment illegally.

They will charge you over £1,800 for £20 worth of pills.

There is no clinical oversight, no fallback and no accountability.

No one will come to your house to monitor you. If something goes wrong, you are on your own.

These companies ignore national clinical guidelines and will demand full payment: upfornt.

In the very rare instance that they decline treatment, good luck trying to get a refund!

Because they are not registered with the appropriate regulator or use the the legal exemptions you have no recourse should things go wrong. All you can do is speak to the sales person who took your money. They will soon block your number.

These companies are 100% internet based. One notorious one is run by a convicted UK criminal, on the run, in Thailand.

How Can Find Me a Rehab Help?

We are addictions clinicians.

In our roles we assess, diagnose and prescribe for those undergoing alcohol detox.

Our experience means we can give you honest, as well as impartial and confidential advice: Without charge.

Should you wish to go ahead with treatment , we can make a referral for you (without charge) to a residential treatment centre or a registered at home treatment service.

Our service is registered with the Information Commissioners Office.

We only signpost to services registered with the appropriate local government regulator.

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