outpatient rehab

Non-residential treatment program

Outpatient rehab is a treatment program for addiction, injury, or illness where patients attend scheduled sessions but return home rather than staying overnight.

It offers structured therapy—physical, occupational, or substance abuse counseling—while allowing people to maintain work and family responsibilities: She did outpatient rehab three days a week after her knee surgery.

Compare with inpatient programs, which require residence at a facility.

Opposites
treatment intensity/residential status

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Live-in facility for recovery

residential treatment · inpatient treatment · hospitalization · sober living house · halfway house

treatment vs. no treatment

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Treating ailments without consultation

denial · untreated · neglect · cold turkey

recovery vs. active use/decline

outpatient rehabrelapse

Return to former illness

rock bottom · spiraling · hitting bottom · self-destruction · binging

Family

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