No matter how much money has been pumped into our education system to enlighten our youth about the ill effects of drug and alcohol consumption, we see that substance abuse is still rampant in our society to this day. Therefore, our efforts at drug and alcohol treatment need to keep pace with the number of substance abusers out there who seek rehabilitation treatment services.

One such example of a drug rehabilitation institution is what is known as a recovery home. As the name implies, a recovery home is a place for recovering addicts to come and take up residence for a fixed period of time. For many, a recovery home serves as a sanctuary, a safe haven free of the influences and temptation of drugs and alcohol.

Let’s take a look at some of the benefits that recovering addicts may derive through drug and alcohol treatment at a recovery home facility:

1. The ultimate goal of drug and alcohol treatment is to liberate the addict from his or her chemical and psychological dependency upon the illicit substances that have been consuming his or her life over the past several weeks, months, or years. The faculty at a recovery home is trained to provide medical and emotional oversight as recovering addicts go through the withdrawal and detoxification processes. Also, by virtue of the fact that a recovery home is a drug and alcohol free environment, it provides a positive atmosphere, encouraging the individual to live a more productive, responsible, and fulfilling life, rather than indulging in the self-destructive behaviors often associated with substance abuse.

2. A secondary, yet albeit, equally important goal of drug and alcohol treatment is to not merely just cure you, but to also arm you with the knowledge and skills necessary in order to prevent yourself from succumbing to temptation, once you leave the confines of the recovery home sanctuary, and go into an addiction relapse, once again abusing drugs and alcohol as you did before. This goal is achieved through counseling, therapy, coaching, and education, all of which are made available and provided through the recovery home facility.

3. A recovery home also helps to attack your addiction at the root of the problem. The consumption of drugs and alcohol are not the problem, but are merely symptoms of a much deeper problem that is going on in your life. Many people who become substance abusers do so as a means of escape from coping with the stresses and problems in life. These include financial problems, relationship problems, or legal problems. Therapy and counseling can oftentimes help a person learn how to cope with these problems in life in an effective manner, so that you don’t have to resort to taking drugs or alcohol as a means of “escaping” from your problems.

A recovery home is founded on the premise that it can help to achieve each of the 3 aforementioned goals, listed above.