Inpatient rehab is the right choice when addiction is severe, the home environment is unstable, or previous treatment has not held. Outpatient rehab suits mild to moderate addiction where the person has reliable support at home and cannot step away from work or family. Both approaches treat addiction and co-occurring mental health conditions; the difference …

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During a detox programme in South Africa, you can expect a structured, medically supervised process in which clinical staff help your body clear addictive substances safely while managing withdrawal symptoms with medication and round-the-clock monitoring. The process typically unfolds in three stages: assessment, stabilisation, and transition to rehabilitation. Timelines range from 5 days for alcohol …

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Dual diagnosis treatment is a clinical approach that treats a substance use disorder and a co-occurring mental health disorder at the same time, using a single integrated care plan delivered by a multidisciplinary team. Rather than addressing addiction and mental health separately, integrated dual diagnosis treatment recognises that both conditions influence each other and must …

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