Any drug rehabilitation treatment program is only as successful as it gets good results in its clients. Celebrity news magazines are ripe with stories about who is in rehab, who is leaving rehab, and who is falling back off the wagon. It may be confusing to understand what a quality rehabilitation treatment program and facility should be capable of when there are stories of rehabilitation treatment programs that seem to routinely produce only a temporary withdrawal from drugs and are followed by limited periods of sobriety. So what exactly are the desired results of a drug rehabilitation treatment program?
A drug addict is living a highly reduced quality of life, and often experiences regular and serious mental, physical and emotional difficulties. Dictionary.com defines rehabilitation as restoring an individual to a condition of good health and ability to work. In order for this to occur, drugs need to be entirely eliminated from the individual’s life, including residual toxins still in their systems after they stop drug use, and they need to move forward into dealing with the ups and downs of life without turning back to drug use. Therefore the desired results of a successful drug rehabilitation treatment program should include an individual who has been restored to health, is free from the effects of drugs, and is able to take on the challenges of life and their normal environments without returning to drug use.
The Importance of Outcome Monitoring
A holistic drug rehabilitation facility like Narconon Arrowhead obviously has no drugs of any kind on their premises. Program participants are surrounded by trained staff and other individuals who are seeking to win the fight against addiction. Whatever they may achieve in the facility is put to a tough test when the individual re-enters a society where both illicit and prescription drugs are a regular part of many people’s lives, and where they are no longer surrounded by supportive, trained individuals and others in similar conditions. Unlike the peaceful surroundings of the Narconon Arrowhead facility, real life can be noisy, upsetting and stressful. Therefore, while an individual may complete each step of the Narconon rehabilitation program, and may successfully withdraw and detox from drugs and arm themselves with valuable life skills, they must be monitored after program graduation to ensure that they are truly rehabilitated.
In monitoring the outcome of program graduates, Narconon Arrowhead is able to help individuals as needed, whether with simple advice or reminders of certain life skills they learned on the program, or by encouraging those who need to return to the facility to undergo more rehabilitation treatment. Furthermore, verifying exactly how graduates are doing and noting any areas of weakness can allow Narconon Arrowhead to correct or improve any areas of program delivery as needed to strengthen results.
How Narconon Routinely Monitors Outcome
Post-graduation continued guidance and counseling is a part of the Narconon Arrowhead treatment program, and can help the staff monitor program graduate outcome. However, once a graduate leaves the Narconon facility, there is no guarantee that Narconon staff will be able to reach them. In order to increase their chances of successfully monitoring the outcome of the majority of their program graduates, Narconon has adopted the following policies:
1. Enrollment forms include requests for all of the client’s email, address and phone information. It also requests detailed information regarding phone numbers, email addresses and addresses of the client’s family or friends who can be reached to discuss the graduate’s status if the graduate himself is unreachable.
2. Approximately one week before program graduation, the student verifies and updates all contact information for self and family or friends.
3. The individualized follow-up process for Narconon program graduates is outlined step by step on a written checklist.
By incorporating a routine outcome monitoring system, Narconon Arrowhead demonstrates a true care for the success and health of program graduates, and an interest in being able to self-correct so as to always ensure the best recovery results for every student.
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