| Webster's dictionary defines 'Rehabilitation' as "to | | | | includes counselors and support groups. Medical |
| restore to a state of efficiency good management | | | | therapies include treatment with prescription drugs, |
| and solvency or to restore to a condition of health or | | | | such as methadone, to suppress craving from opiates |
| useful and constructive activity." | | | | like heroin. Research shows that a combination of both |
| Rehabilitation or Rehab, in short, is a field of medicine | | | | therapies must be used to evolve a suitable program |
| and social work whereby an individual who has lost his | | | | for the patient. Specific areas that must be addressed |
| normal capacity of physical or mental health is brought | | | | include: detoxification (coming off the drug if physically |
| back to the mainstream and restored to a comfortable | | | | addicted) and preventing relapse for longer-term |
| living state. | | | | Rehab. |
| Rehabilitation medicine is a field of medicine that | | | | Alcoholism is also a form of substance abuse. It |
| cooperates with social workers to restore people with | | | | causes problems at work, while driving, at home and in |
| disabilities and diseases to their normal, comfortable | | | | legal matters. Mostly it causes severe health problems |
| lifestyle. The areas covered under this discipline include | | | | for the abuser. Alcoholism can be fatal. Treatment for |
| Cardiac Rehabilitation, family education, home | | | | alcoholism includes three steps: 1) medical stabilization |
| management, horticultural therapy, neuro-psychological | | | | 2) detoxification and 3) long-term abstinence and |
| and psychological treatment, occupational therapy, | | | | Rehabilitation. |
| stroke Rehabilitation, speech language pathology, | | | | Rehab centers are of three kinds- Outpatient |
| pediatric Rehabilitation, prosthetics and orthotics, | | | | treatment centers, long-term drug treatment centers |
| physical therapy, vision therapy and women's health | | | | and short-term inpatient centers. The kind of treatment |
| programs. | | | | depends on each individual case. |
| The most common Rehab programs are for | | | | The treatment and Rehab of drug abusers should |
| substance abuse, namely drug and alcohol addiction. | | | | involve education and life-changing therapies. Through |
| Rehab programs for both these substances aim at | | | | Rehab, the drug addicts can learn to rebuild their lives |
| detoxifying the individual, freeing him from substance | | | | and live a normal healthy life. Like treatment for |
| addiction and Rehabilitating him into a clean and healthy | | | | diabetes and heart disease, Rehab must bring about |
| state. | | | | changes in behavior and lifestyle. Psychotherapy would |
| Drug Rehab aims at freeing individuals from drug | | | | be useful to bring about changes, and joining groups |
| abuse and reinstating them to a normal lifestyle. There | | | | like Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous |
| are two major arenas of drug treatment, behavioral | | | | may help to kick the habit and prevent relapse. |
| therapies and medical therapies. Behavioral therapy | | | | |