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If you have good private health insurance, or if you have the means to self finance a stay at a better private drug or alcohol rehab, you will likely benefit from a facility that boasts medical rehab on site. If you lack private insurance and you must rely on very low cost self pay options, you may need to detox on your own before entry.

Most low cost or free drug and alcohol rehabs do not have the expertise, resources or personal to run medically supervised programs of detoxification, and as such most will deny admission to anyone still needing to detox off of drugs or alcohol. Which can obviously be very problematic for someone desperate to get better, but lacking the means to do so at a private rehab.

So do you need to detox first?

Deeding on the drug of abuse, you may not need a medically supervised period of detox before entry into a program. Low cost and free rehabs do not necessarily require that you have undergone detox, just that you are medically stable at the point of entry, and are not going to need medical care that they cannot provide.

You don’t need to detox if:

If you are coming off of drugs such as crystal meth, cocaine, marijuana, inhalants, crack or club drugs such as ecstasy, you can expect a significant period of uncomfortable withdrawal, but nothing life threatening, and nothing that requires a distinct period of detox. You may benefit from a detoxification but when none is available, you can enter immediately into a free or very low cost residential program, bypassing separate detox.

You do need to detox if:

If you are emerging from an addiction to alcohol, opiates, or any tranquilizer or sedative anti convulsant type drug, you do need medical stabilization and supervised detox.

Opiate (heroin, narcotic pain pills) detox is rarely dangerous, but is so uncomfortable, that few people can endure the pains without medical assistance, and so if you need to come off of opiates, you will need to do so before entry into a low cost program.

Alcohol and certain sedative hypnotics present with a syndrome of detox than can be quite dangerous, and in some cases lethal, and for safety, you must detox under medical observation.

These drugs are all CNS depressants, and once the brain becomes accustomed to their regular presence, it changes slightly to compensate. Once you stop taking them the brain is not ready for their absence and it races forward uncontrollably, provoking sometimes dangerous tremens, anxiety, convulsions and seizures. Thankfully, detox treatments can make the process very safe and quite comfortable, but you should never attempt an unmedicated detox.

If you do need low cost detox

You need to contact your state social services office and get on a waiting list for a subsidized detox now, or alternatively, if you can possibly fund a few days of detox (ranging from about $ 200 per day and up) you can get into a detox tomorrow, and avoid the long wait times that derail so many from treatment and a better life of sobriety.

There are a great many low cost drug treatment programs available to those in need, and once you’re medically stable, you should have little difficulty finding one for a quick entry.

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