At a drug and alcohol rehab center, how long should you stay? Ideally this might be arrived at by looking at the length and severity of the addiction. How many other attempts at drug or alcohol rehab have been attempted before? Another possible suggestion might be to stay until you and your counselor felt you were ready.

Such attempts to customize the length of stay, don’t seem to result in higher success rates. Unfortunately, even with very skilled counselors, predicting outcome is very difficult and the research shows, these predictions are not very accurate. The most accurate determanent we have for outcome, is length of stay. The longer you stay, up to a point, the more likely of the client staying sober. Staying longer and the odds of success actually go down. Somewhere around the 90 day mark is the highest chance of success. If drug and alcohol are severely affecting and destroying the quality of your life and you have had no success in your previous attempts to stop, three months is the length of stay which will give you the best opportunity to achieve your goal.

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