Inpatient Drug Addiction Treatment

Inpatient treatment is often recommended for individuals with:

  • High amounts of stress triggering activities in their environment availability.
  • Unavailability of emotional support.
  • A history of chronic substance abuse.
  • Poor treatment outcomes in the past.

Oftentimes, inpatient treatment is the most immersive level of care someone can receive. It can provide intensive, 24-hour care under the direction of a team of professionals.

At Shri GKS Deaddiction Center:

The primary focus of inpatient drug treatment is to stabilize the individual’s acute and immediate medical psychiatric condition. This is for certainly, to ensure their safety and setting them up to engage them in ongoing addiction treatment. Inpatient treatment can take place in hospitals or specialty behavioral health centers.

Inpatient Psychiatric Care

These inpatient settings will have a particular focus on the treatment of acute mental health symptoms that are directly or indirectly related to substance abuse.

This setting is most appropriate for someone with serious mental health issues that cannot be well managed outside of an inpatient setting. Like other forms of inpatient treatment, this level of care will be take place in a more restrictive and highly-structured environment with medical attention. One may find a high staff to patient ratio that aids in directing individual and group therapies as well as connecting to services following discharge.

Therapeutic Communities (TCs)

Therapeutic communities (TCs) are variants of long-term residential treatment with typical lengths of stay between 6 and 12 months. This setting will provide care 24 hours daily in an environment with more freedoms than a hospital. Treatment remains highly structured and staff members may use confrontation techniques for instance:

  • Challenging thought distortions.
  • Bringing attention to instances of poor decision making.

These techniques are done the reason that is reduce denial, create motivation and produce change.

In TCs, residents and staff work together towards the goal of relearning problem-solving skills and new ways to interact with their environment. With this focus in mind, TCs offer individualized care that can be modified for various groups of people in recovery including adolescents and people with disabilities. Some TCs may include.