Description

The purpose of this final phase of the twelve-week program is to help you maximize your capacity to successfully transition from the safety and supervision of a structured treatment setting back to the community, prepared to assume full responsibility for your recovery. Our twelve-week length of stay is consistent with research by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which concluded that for most individuals, “the threshold of significant improvement is reached at about three months in treatment.”

This time frame correlates with the most challenging period of post-acute withdrawal, which can continue for weeks or months after you complete medically-supervised detoxification. Active addiction dramatically changes brain functioning in the areas that govern thinking, feeling, and behavior. During post-acute withdrawal, when the brain and body are beginning to heal and rewire themselves to adjust to living without substances, difficulties in thinking, concentration, judgment, memory, sleep, appetite and mood are quite common. The discomfort of post-acute withdrawal is a driving factor in the relapses of many people during early recovery. A twelve-week length of stay has the additional benefit of providing therapeutic shelter until the storm of the most severe symptoms of post-acute withdrawal can pass. We want to give you the best possible chance to continue your recovery.