Residential Rehab

A recovery coach provides nonclinical peer or recovery support, a sponsor is a voluntary peer guide within a 12-step fellowship, and a therapist is a trained clinical professional who provides behavioral health assessment and treatment within their scope.

Recovery capital is the collection of personal, social, community, and practical resources a person can draw on to begin and sustain recovery after addiction treatment.

Families should strongly consider keeping naloxone available when a loved one has opioid overdose risk, including after treatment, because tolerance can fall and overdose can occur if opioid use resumes.

Before someone returns from rehab, families should consider removing or securing alcohol, non-prescribed drugs, unused controlled medications, drug paraphernalia, and other personally relevant triggers identified in the discharge plan.

Families can prepare for someone coming home from rehab by understanding the discharge plan, reducing substance-related risks at home, supporting follow-up care, setting healthy boundaries, and planning for emergencies without trying to control recovery.

During someone’s first week in rehab, family members should avoid pressuring them to leave early, demanding constant updates, creating guilt, ignoring program boundaries, or trying to control treatment decisions.

Clinicians step someone down from PHP to IOP when reassessment shows that the person can safely continue progress with fewer treatment hours and less intensive monitoring while maintaining needed support.

Step-up care means moving to a more intensive level of addiction treatment when the current level no longer provides enough structure, monitoring, or clinical support.

Evening IOP may fit adults who need to preserve daytime work hours, while daytime IOP can work better for people with flexible employment or who function better earlier in the day; clinical fit matters more than schedule convenience alone.

A qualified employee with a disability may be able to request a reasonable accommodation such as a modified schedule or leave to attend IOP or PHP, unless the accommodation would create undue hardship.