Residential treatment centers provide a multidisciplinary approach to facilitate recovery from addiction. Residential treatment centers offer a structured therapeutic environment that begins with the withdrawal/detoxification process and extends through aftercare planning following residential treatment.

The treatment often include both individual and group counseling, structured physical activities, nutritional counseling, stress reduction, holistic approaches such as yoga, saunas, acupuncture and neurofeedback, vocational training, relapse prevention support, social skills training, educational services and 12-step substance abuse programs.

It is important that facilities are licensed by the state in which they are located and accredited by a health care accrediting body such as JCAHO or CARF.

A lot of times these treatment environments are associated with hospitals, however, this is not always the case. Residential treatment may occur in non-hospital settings. In fact the preferred treatment environment in a lot of situations would be one that was less restrictive, however did have supervision and structure. At the time of discharge a client has a continual care or aftercare program and most inpatient and residential programs gradually reintroduce a client to a "normal" environment through community outings and supervised passes.

These programs generally offer supervised detoxification that may involve medication in a hospital setting or social detoxification (i.e. no medication) in a non-hospital setting. The typical 28-day treatment duration has no research base and has come about as a result of financial constraints, particularly the reluctance of insurance companies to pay for treatment. Inpatient and residential treatment settings have the advantages of 24-hour supervision, the reduced likelihood of clients using alcohol or drugs while in treatment, highly structured days, and a total immersion in treatment with removal from the everyday stressors and pressures. The disadvantages of this setting are the expense (a 28-day program in a hospital setting may be well over $15,000) and the artificiality of the environment.

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