Outpatient VS Inpatient Rehab
Outpatient and inpatient rehab differ in the sense that in outpatient, you will come to the facility at a scheduled time, have your treatment and leave to go back home. With inpatient, you will live at the facility for the time that you are being treated, only returning home once treatment is finished.
Outpatient rehab:
- Allows patients to get treatment with little disruption to their everyday life. They can still go to work and spend time with friends and family members.
- Will usually take longer, since there is not the same intense treatment as people would have if they were to stay in the facility full time.
- For those suffering from drug and alcohol addiction, outpatient may make it harder to stay away from those substances, since the person will still be around the same people and may be visiting the same places that he or she associates with drinking or drugs.
- It may be easier to get someone addicted to agree to go to outpatient, since the person will be allowed to come back home. Inpatient may scare some individuals.
- This type of rehab is much less costly.
Inpatient rehab:
- Since one is required to stay there, it keeps the person away from friends who may encourage drinking and drugs.
- There is no chance to drink or do drugs since you cannot leave. You have no choice but to stay sober.
- The patient is away from the everyday stresses in life. The patient is able to put all his or her energy into getting well.
- Patient is monitored and given medication to help he or she get through the difficult withdrawal stage.
- Therapy is scheduled for longer periods of time each day.
Every patient is different, making it hard to say which rehab is best. The best one is whichever one works for an individual. The most important thing is getting your life back the way you want it to be, healthy, well and free from addictions.