What is Considered a Good Rehab Success Rate?
Depending on what the program consists
of, many non-12-step drug and alcohol rehab programs have a much higher success
rate. The reasons for this could be many, but some include length of treatment,
not using replacement drugs of any kind, having a more thorough body
detoxification program or even just that they don't tell addicts that they are
diseased but instead can become responsible for themselves and their
condition.
It is actually difficult to find rehab programs that will
print or talk about what their success rates are. While there may never been a
rehabilitation center that achieves 100% success or even close, there are some
non-12-step facilities that do produce good results. We consider a good success
rate to be at least more than 50%. Most rehabs are below 30% and actually fall
into the 5-20% range unfortunately. By this we mean the percentage of people
who are no longer on drugs after completing their program.
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How is a Success Rate Verified?
There have actually been very few studies completed
on any large scale to show what a standard success rate is and how that is
calculated. There are no current set criteria for measuring success, and there
is no standard for measuring this success either. Due to this lack of
benchmarking, some rehab centers have done their own internal follow-up
interviews to see how their program completions are coping in every day life.
Based on their findings, this is how they usually come up with their success
rate?
Here is what you have to look at as a consumer - what things are
they measuring to determine their success? In other words, are they finding out
if they are totally abstinent from drugs and alcohol or are they just looking
for a reduction in use? Do they count someone a success if they no longer use
the same drug they entered rehab for, but instead have moved on to something
different? How long to they measure their sobriety - 1 month, 6 months, 1 year
or longer?
In addition, it is also important to look at other factors
in life to determine success. These are things such as other criminal behavior
or recent arrests, part-time or full-time employment, relationships with family
and friends, etc.