Outpatient Detoxification - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - St. Helens, OR.

If someone is receiving outpatient detoxification they travel to the facility assisting them through detox every day or at least five days a week in most cases. Outpatient detox is either done in the daytime or evening, which makes it ideal for someone who needs to keep a normal school or work routine. Certain programs also provide options to participate in detoxification treatment in a choice of normal outpatient or outpatient day treatment, to augment detoxification services and relapse prevention help.

A standard time individuals remain in outpatient detoxification is about seven days. Some facilities use medication assisted detox approaches while others provide medication free detoxification treatement. At times when medications are necessary to prevent deadly withdrawal problems, like with alcohol and benzodiazepine medications where seizures are sometimes a problem. Otherwise, staff at the program help people handle their physical, emotional and psychological symptoms of withdrawal and cravings until they are detoxified and stabilized.

While outpatient detoxification in St. Helens is more flexible for obvious reasons, a severe disadvantage is that people are at a higher chance of falling back into addiction due to the access they maintain to drugs. Ideally, clients will then go into a log-term or short-term recovery facility to address the reasons for their addiction once outpatient or inpatient detox is complete.

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