Over the years a new type of rehabilitation has been gaining much popularity over the years.  It is a treatment program that uses holistic medicine.  A holistic drug rehab is a program that addresses the mind, body, and spirit.  It is also a program that does not prescribe drugs when treating the drug or alcohol addiction.  This is a common trick for many programs that market themselves as being holistic.  Instead what they do is make it appear that they are natural and holistic when all they do is prescribe psychiatric prescription drugs.  This is one of the worst things that a drug rehab can do is to prescribe drugs to a person with a drug problem.

Of course a person may need to be medically detoxed first.  During this initial process drugs are used to taper a person off of the drug or alcohol which if come off of cold turkey is not medically safe.  The detox usually takes around 5-7 days and once the addicted individual has been properly detoxed then the holistic rehabilitation can start.

Most holistic programs offer an inpatient drug rehab which should address all components of handling addiction and also provide a life skills portion as well.  This will help the person how to live without drugs and alcohol which were probably used as some sort of solution to mental, emotional or physical problems.