Because of the highly addictive nature of the drug, heroin rehab requires serious commitment and support. The following factors can be combined to create successful rehab programs:
- Understanding your addictive personality. Most rehab programs will include this as part of the rehab program. If you do not gain an understanding of why you are drawn to heroin (or other addictions) you may miss warning signs and fail to stay clean.
- Behavior modification. This involves changing your behavior through rewards and positive reinforcements.
- Support. Every successful rehab program will have a significant support group component.
- A team of experts. A successful rehab program will consist of a team of experts, including medical doctors, psychologists and/or psychiatrists, nurses, and social workers.
- Alternative medicines. The detox phase can sometimes include alternative drugs as a transition from being addicted to heroin addiction to being drug-free. Sometimes a drug that creates an acute sensitivity to the drug is given, as the case of disulfiram for alcohol (and sometimes cocaine) addiction.
- Long-term care and follow-up services. Quality treatment centers have a strong commitment to long-term care and follow-up to the rehab itself. Of all the clients who do not participate in a continuing program of follow-up care, almost half will relapse within the first year.
- Family counseling and involvement. Successful programs will bring close family members into the program and work to integrate them into a holistic and healthy change in the domestic situation.
- Ongoing commitment to reviewing the research. Rehab programs should be committed to reviewing ongoing research into method and practices of heroin rehab.
- Careful record keeping. Any successful treatment should be part of an ongoing statistical record in order identify successful treatments.
- Willingness to work with health insurance companies. Rehab usually is not free or even cheap, but a quality rehab program will make every effort to work alongside of insurance companies to help clients become productive, healthy members of society.
Most rehab programs use a holistic and integrative approach.
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