- The length of stay at a residential substance abuse facility can range from short-term, which is 28 days, to long-term residential, which can be over a year.
- Patients are offered a variety of services, from art and music classes to outdoor activities.
- Treatment at residential substance abuse treatment centers revolves around a schedule of individual psychotherapy, group therapy, life-skills training and medication.
- Most of these facilities subscribe to the 12-step philosophy, which treats drug addiction as an incurable disease.
- There are other facilities that are spirituality- or religion-oriented, which believe a person can be cured of drug addiction.
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