Inpatient vs Outpatient Treatment

Hi, guys. Chris Edrington here from Cadre. Today we're going to talk about the difference between inpatient treatment and outpatient treatment. Residential treatment or outpatient treatment. Sometimes it's referred to both. The biggest difference, I would say, is inpatient treatment. 30 days, maybe up to 90 days, can really help put the fire out. So if you've been out on the street using and it's really chaotic, lots of consequences. Crashed cars and lost relationships and money and terrible things, you can cool out in treatment and physically get healthy.

Right? You can stay away from, get out of the chaos, get some consistent food in you, get the meds figured out, get some sleep. Really, really important acute level care. It's usually covered by insurance for a certain amount of time. It's generally quite expensive. Just depends on what your coverage is or what your options are versus outpatient treatment, which is likened to sort of going to school or night school, where you go a certain amount of hours a day for x number of weeks or x number of months.

Usually it titrates down to less and less and less hours per week as you progress. Still have access to professionals, still have access to therapists, still have a group of to process things with, which is super helpful. But you don't live there and you don't sleep there. Typically, you're doing it from home or you're doing it from sober living home, and it will time out, just like inpatient does. It times out. And so you've got to get onto the next thing. A lot of people go to inpatient and then outpatient.

If you've been to inpatient multiple times and you relapsed, maybe outpatient and sober living is a high enough level of care. I think it's really important for people to understand that either choice, the end game of both, is to go live and enter a sober community with the skills you need to do that. Like, learn enough about the disease, learn enough about your own tendencies, triggers things that held you back. If there's trauma, address it so that, like, the idea is that you're getting prepared to be able to go, a person to go, to become somebody who can go live in the community, the sober community, the real community, and get back what you need to get from that.

Because early recovery is really about what you put in to your, or what, let's just say what you put in, you get out. And the, the sober community in any city in this country is going to welcome you in and you're going to find that there are people there that really want to show you what they did really want to help you. It's not a cult, it's not a God thing. It's just a bunch of really great people whose lives have radically changed. And if you get to that point where everyone you love and professionals in your life are telling you that you need this, then go get it, because it's there for you and it's incredibly easy to access.

The treatment side has a lot to do with the clinical work of recovery, what addiction means, the physiological parts of addiction, super great information and the push in the end. The real purpose here is to prepare you to engage in the chain, in a repurposed lifestyle. And for a lot of us, that looks a lot different. For people that I work with day in and day out, it really is an immersion into the sober community. And if you follow me on Cadre, you're going to hear a whole bunch of stuff about different ways, different pathways to access that momentum or that current of people in recovery that are moving in through the years of recovery.

And you can jump in wherever you are. I hope this is helpful. See you next time.