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It may be difficult to determine the success rate of a drug rehab center which follows the traditional 12 step approach made famous by Alcohol Anonymous as there is only recovery, no cure. Once an addict, always an addict. Is success not using drugs, or not wanting to use drugs?

The success rate of a non 12 step rehab program should be measured both by the former addict not using any drugs and not wanting to use any drugs. Success should be measured in how well a person adapts to life without drugs and how they remove themselves from temptation, so drugs don’t still rule their lives even though they aren’t using anymore.

Long term drug rehab almost always has a better success rate than short term drug rehab. You may wonder why if this is true, why doesn’t every drug addict enter long term rehab? For one, it’s expensive. If a person does not have insurance to over the cost, or they don’t qualify for financing, they may not be able to afford long term drug rehab.

Other people simply cannot take a month or two in a rehab facility as they have work or family obligations. Either way, success is hard to measure for rehab programs, you almost have to trust the facility or get good recommendations before choosing one.

HOW IS GIVEN

The chemotherapeutic agents can be administered orally (in pill form, capsule or solution drinkable), but not always the digestive system can absorb, so it may also be brought intravenous or intramuscular injections. The latter is the most common, doctors may do so using a syringe into a vein in the hand or arm, through which drugs are introduced into the patient’s body. Alternatively, the catheter, a flexible tube that is placed in a larger vein, which is maintained for the duration of treatment. Sometimes the catheter is attached to a device, a small hard plastic or metal that is placed under the skin and prevents unnecessary jabs. To control the rate of entry of the drug in the body can also be used an infusion pump, which has a storage area for drugs.

When the drug is administered intramuscularly, the effects of chemotherapy tend to last longer because the muscle tissue absorption is somewhat slower. Finally, in some cases, when the disease has spread to the spinal cord or brain, medications must be administered directly into the spinal fluid for which we must resort to intrathecal method, which involves introducing chemotherapy directly into the space intraspinal.

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