Drug rehabilitation is the process of helping addicted persons to recover from his addiction for drugs usage. The word can be said as an umbrella term used for various methods like medical treatments as well as psychotherapeutic treatments. All these tries to recover the patient from usage of any psychoactive substances like drugs like heroin, cocaine and more dangerous ones and addiction for alcohol as well.
Drug rehabilitation centers are of different types while some offers residential treatment (in-patient) while other gives in patient treatment. They try to address both physical as well as psychological dependency on drugs. I physical dependency the patient is undergoing a detoxification process which enables them to reduce usage of drugs gradually and thus quit its use. As this is a very gradual process with drawal symptoms may include severe malaise which may last for some time. The patient who quit Drug Treatment at this stage will go back to previous situation and at that stage it is better to go for Residential drug rehab which provide more care and is provided with an environment where it is not possible to access the thing.