Does anyone know how much it costs for drug treatment programs?
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VERY EXPENSIVE FOR INPATIENT IN USA. 1000+ AT LEAST
Of course, this can vary wildly based on your location, the kind of drug and the provider. But here’s a quote:
“The average cost for treatment of alcohol or drug abuse in outpatient facilities was an estimated $1,433 per course of treatment in 2002, according to a new report released by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).”
man, that’s a lot
Drug rehab can be available at no cost to you. You should check with a social worker or local therapist to see what is available in the area that you live. Most rehabs involve some form of intensive outpatient therapy along with AA meetings. If you need to detox, then they will probably admit you to a hospital for a short period. The most important thing to know is that the cost of rehab does not dictate the success rate. The person has to really want to quit first. The purpose of rehab is to enforce the person’s desire to quit with support and encouragement. If the person does not want to quit, then no amount of rehab will work. You might as well burn your money or give it to charity, if this is the case.
A lot more than it is worth.
“After one year there was no evident difference between drinkers who had received intensive treatment and those who had received minimal treatment and had been told that the patient, not the program, had to deal with the problem.
“Such experiments suggest that anything more than an hour or two of commonsense advice from an authoritative person may be a waste of time, money, and resources.”
WHO Expert Committee on Problems Related to Alcohol Consumption, Problems Related to Alcohol Consumption (1980), 46.
Over 90% of treatment is 12step-based (AA), the rest is mostly religious or Scientology. 12step treatment has about a 5% success rate, the same as no treatment at all.
1) Dr. Brandsma found that A.A. increased the rate of binge drinking, and
2) Dr. Ditman found that A.A. increased the rate of rearrests for public drunkenness, and
3) Dr. Walsh found that “free A.A.” made later hospitalization more expensive, and
4) Doctors Orford and Edwards found that having a doctor talk to the patient for just one hour was just as effective as a whole year of A.A.-based treatment.
5) Dr. George E. Vaillant, the A.A. Trustee, found that A.A. treatment was completely ineffective, and raised the death rate in alcoholics. No other way of treating alcoholics produced such a high death rate as did Alcoholics Anonymous.