Substance-abuse rehabilitation is a process of medical and/or psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances.
All of the following are typical objects of dependencies treated:
- alcohol,
- inhaled solvents,
- prescription drugs,
- over-the-counter drugs,
- so-called street drugs
- multiple substances from one or more of those groups, each a dependency of the same patient.
- Twelve-step programs,
- the doctrine that recovery is a permanent process without a culmination, whence the adjective "recovering before "addict", "alcoholic", etc.
- the doctrine that addicts' attempts at moderation rather than complete abstention inevitably produces relapse (with the slogan "I don't want a drink, i want too many drinks.")
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