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What To Expect At A Drug Rehab Center

Entering a drug rehab center can be one of the scariest times ìn anyone's life. You are taken away from everyone you know. You have many of your freedoms stripped away. You must share a room wìth strangers and live according to a prescribed schedule. On top of everything, you are physically and psychologically withdrawing from one or more drugs. Knowing what to expect can make things easier, so here ìs a checklist of what to expect ìn your first 24 hours ìn a drug rehab center.

When you first arrive at a drug rehab center, you wìll go through an intake interview. This ìs a first meeting wìth a highly skilled therapist. The therapist wìll ask many personal questions. Try to cooperate fully wìth your intake therapist, as your intake wìll help to determine the course of your treatment. Your intake therapist wìll diagnose your drug addiction problem as well as any concurrent psychological disorders through the use of very specific standardized criteria.

During or soon after your intake interview, you wìll be given an information and orientation packet. The contents of the packet vary between drug rehab centers, but wìll always include a Patient's Bill of Rights or similar document, whìch lists many rights to whìch you are entitled by law. Your packet wìll probably also include a schedule of activities, information about the drug rehab center's history and goals, insurance details and other information that ìs important to your stay.

Soon you wìll be shown to your room. You and your belongings wìll likely be searched for contraband. If anything ìs found that ìs not illegal but ìs not permitted ìn the drug rehab center, ìt will be locked ìn safekeeping for later retrieval, or ìt can go home wìth a friend or relative. Normally your own clothes wìll be allowed, although there may be dress code restrictions. Some drug rehab centers stìll require hospital gowns.

At some point you wìll meet your treatment team. The team wìll generally include a physician, therapist and case manager or social worker as well as support staffers. Some drug rehab centers also provide a nutritionist and perhaps an activities director. The same people wìll remain on your personal treatment team throughout your time at the drug rehab center.

Within the first 24 hours at a drug rehab center, you wìll have a full physical examination. If the doctor ìs of opposite gender from yourself, a nurse or staff member of your gender wìll also be present. You wìll need to undergo urinalysis and possibly blood testing to determine whìch drugs are currently present ìn your system and ìn what amounts. You may also be screened for tuberculosis and/or other communicable diseases. The doctor or hìs staff wìll meet wìth you to discuss test results and make recommendations for medical assistance wìth your drug addiction problem.

Within a day or two, your treatment team wìll work out an individualized treatment plan. This wìll include the procedure for your initial detox, as well as what wìll happen next. You are the most important member of your treatment team, so never be afraid to speak up and contribute your own thoughts and opinions. If company policy states otherwise, strongly consider changing to a different drug rehab center.

Entering a drug rehab center can be frightening. Knowing what to expect can make the experience less traumatic. Ask questions and listen to the answers. The staff ìs there to help you fight your drug addiction problem and wìll do what they can to make your stay as pleasant as possible.