rehab patient
Person getting clean
A rehab patient is someone receiving treatment at a rehabilitation facility, typically for substance abuse or addiction.
The term implies residential or intensive outpatient care: The rehab patients gathered for group therapy.
It can also refer to someone recovering from injury or surgery in a physical rehabilitation program, though this sense is less common.
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- detoxSubstance removal process
- addictCompulsive dependent
- rock bottomLowest possible level
- soberFree from intoxication
treatment · therapy · group therapy · withdrawal · clinic · relapse · twelve-step · one day at a time · making amends · sobriety · inpatient · halfway · clean · clean time · sober living · healing · struggle · meetings
- patientsinpatients, inpatient, outpatients, outpatient
- addictsaddicts, addict, junkies, drug addict, drug addicts
- Patient Typesinpatient, outpatient, acute, chronic, critical
- therapy patientsinpatient, outpatient
- exercisersgym rat, athlete, runner, jogger, weightlifter
- superviseessupervisee, mentee, trainee, intern, apprentice
rehab patientdischarged patient
Person sent home healed
alumni · outpatient · graduate
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