What Addiction Treatment Centers Fail
Anyone, regardless of background, income, or degree, is vulnerable to developing an addiction. In certain cases, treatment is ineffective, and the next relapse could result in a fatal overdose. When you want a remedy to save your life, you need it to be effective.
No treatment is a “one size fits all” solution. Unfortunately, many treatment programs are exactly that—no personalized treatment. After attending social support groups, you eat, attend meetings, practice yoga, eat again, and go to bed. Rinse. Repeat.
Your addiction is unique to you. It didn’t begin the same as everyone else. For recovery to be successful, you need to understand why you were using substances to cope or escape and work on healing those things. Unfortunately, most treatment centers do not offer an individualized approach that gives you the key to success. Let’s look at some reasons why addiction treatment centers fail.
The Program Is Not Long Enough or Is Too General
Most treatment center programs aren’t long enough. Some long-term treatment centers do offer six months to up to two years. However, you will be required to live in the facility or in some housing situation. If you run a business and can’t afford to take off for two years, you have better choices.
Everyone who suffers from addiction has a unique and individual experience of the disease. As a result, cookie-cutter treatment methods are unlikely to provide what you need. In order to achieve the best possible results, you should seek out individualized care that provides you with long-term wellness. You need one-on-one help as often or for as long as it takes to work well for you.
M.A.T. And Outpatient Fails
Medically Assisted Treatment M.A.T. programs include Methadone, Suboxone, and Vivitrol options to help you with addiction. Essentially, they give you drugs to help you get off the other harder drugs.
Sometimes, M.A.T. programs like Suboxone can work to keep someone from using heroin or other opiates. Often, however, people come out of rehab back into the environments they were living in, but now they have a prescription for a “legal opiate. ” Street value for them can range from 15-45$ a piece depending on where you live and how sick the other person is. So, with the ability to sell or trade the Suboxone for something else or harder, the cycle begins.
The prescription is sometimes sold, and people may bring in fake urine to pass each week and continue the lifestyle they were leading only now they have financial help utilizing the M.A.T. program.
Another M.A.T. program geared toward people with substance and alcohol use disorder is the Vivitrol shot. Once a month, you get naloxone in an injection, and it prevents you from overdosing on opiates and may reduce alcohol cravings. Of course, people may get the shot, but since nothing else has changed in the environment or healed any issues, nothing changes. They may go for a few days, but when everyone is drinking, they will drink. Unlike Antabuse, which makes people horrifically sick if they drink alcohol, a Vivitrol shot doesn’t make you sick if you drink on it, so it’s not much of a deterrent.
M.A.T. programs are usually in outpatient settings. You’ll go in and have a class for a couple of hours, talk to your therapist, tell them everything is great, and go home with another week’s supply or two weeks and do it again next week. There is no real accountability when you go in once a week for drug screens, and you know what day they are on. Unless someone is truly motivated to change, these types of programs also fail.
28-Day Programs Are Just Not Enough
The biggest reason people relapse when they leave a 28-day is that they return home to the same environment they left a month ago. Friends, family, and even significant others are all still using and drinking like before.
Another reason these month-long treatment programs usually don’t work is that after treatment, there is no accountability or program lined up to ensure you stay sober in the real world. When you leave, you are not “made” to go to social support groups or have therapists.
Around 42% of people that enter treatment programs of some type do not finish their treatment program. Of the ones that complete treatment, very few stay sober.
These programs are usually designed with a plan that involves detox and then getting your health back up to par and sending you back off.
Hope is not instilled in people enough. When you have the one-on-one individualized treatment, they can give you hope and encouragement that you will get through this. If people don’t have enough hope, they are much more likely to return to their old ways.
Another problem with treatment programs like these is that they focus more on group therapy than the individual. Unless you are the person who talks every group session, then you’re not going to have your issues dealt with while in a traditional treatment program.
Working on your issues to overcome the challenges that may have contributed to your substance abuse is crucial. Your addiction story is unique, and treatment should likewise be unique.
Sober on Demand Is Individualized
The good news is that there are alternative treatment options for substance use disorder. We have a higher success rate because we customize the treatment for each client we see. In addition, we offer a completely confidential treatment approach on your terms with one-on-one therapy anywhere you want us to come.
So, if you are struggling with an addiction and don’t have time to put your life on hold — or try a treatment program with low success rates — then reach out to Sober on Demand. Let our addiction treatment program discreetly and thoroughly get you back on your path to success.
