You’ve decided that your drug habit is out of control. You know that the help you need is something you can find at a rehab facility. Now, you need to make some choices. For example, should you select a program at one of the 90 day treatment centers or pick a shorter stay?
Understanding the Choices
Finding facilities with 30-day programs is easy. When you enroll there, you spend a month undergoing treatments. After this time, you might choose to discharge and work on recovery by yourself. Others decide to get help at 90 day treatment centers for more comprehensive care.
Who Benefits from the Four Advantages of Stays at 90 Day Treatment Centers?
If you’ve been abusing drugs or alcohol for a while, a longer stay at a rehab facility makes sense. One distinct advantage is that you’ll have more time to heal. Second, even if healing happens quickly, you still have more time to live in sobriety. Doing so benefits you when you leave to live independently.
Third, three months is an ideal timeframe for exploring trigger situations and your responses. Finally, this time also allows you plenty of time to deal with unexpected cravings, strong temptations, and stressors. Typical modalities at 90 day treatment centers include:
- Talk therapy that allows for cognitive behavioral therapy treatments
- Group therapy, which lets you build healthy peer relationships and reinforces your self-esteem
- Life skills training to prepare you for living on your own
- Family therapy that helps you to rebuild relationships, open channels of communication, and allow for boundary setting
- 12 Step program meetings, which assist with relapse prevention
Preventing a Relapse
Staying for longer than a short month is in itself a relapse prevention tool. Before you return home, you practice what it means to live sober. You go through weeks of not using and handling trigger situations. More importantly, you continue hands-on treatment at that time.
The process provides you valuable insights into your habits and willingness to compromise. You can then work through these issues with a therapist who collaborates with you on your recovery. Additionally, you establish a schedule that helps you stay busy during the hours when you would use in the past. For some, the most dangerous time is after waking up; others were more likely to use in the evenings.
Getting Help for a Substance Use Problem Today
Is a 90-day stay at a rehab facility right for you? Contact an intake counselor at Crestview Recovery in Portland Oregon to find out. The expert will take the time to learn more about your needs. At that time, he or she can also answer any questions you have about the three-month stay.
When substance use is out of control, you might feel like you stand with your back to the wall, but there’s hope. You don’t have to continue living from fix to fix. Call 866.262.0531 for immediate help with starting your recovery process.
Since 2016, Dr. Merle Williamson, a graduate of Oregon Health Sciences University, has been the Medical Director at Crestview Recovery, bringing a rich background in addiction medicine from his time at Hazelden Treatment Center. He oversees outpatient drug and alcohol treatments, providing medical care, setting policies, detox protocols, and quality assurance measures. Before specializing in addiction medicine, he spent 25 years in anesthesiology, serving as Chair of Hospital Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and Chief of Anesthesia at Kaiser Permanente. This experience gives him a unique perspective on treating prescription drug addiction.
