There are many benefits of IOPs including:
- Flexibility – This allows you to maintain your own routines and responsibilities.
- Save Money – Lower financial costs when compared with residential treatment.
- Higher Retention Rate – Especially when compared with low-intensity outpatient care.
- Better Coping – Daily real-world opportunities give you the chance to apply your newly learned coping skills.
- Support – Better chance and more opportunities to establish community-based support.
The key benefit of intensive outpatient therapy programs is that they make addiction treatment accessible to those who are unable to pause their life, career and family obligations to focus on treatment in a residential facility. Outpatient addiction treatment will also allow you to take advantage of local recovery resources to fit your existing schedule.
- Responsibility – Greater patient responsibility when compared with inpatient programs.
- Participation – Greater opportunity for participation in local self-help groups from the beginning of treatment.
The unique style of outpatient programs is often able to reach and help addicts who may otherwise not be willing to enter a residential addiction treatment center. Those in an outpatient therapy program have more control and are able to maintain education, career and personal responsibilities outside of treatment. This type of program offers an enhanced level of anonymity and privacy because you able to return home each night. This is an ideal situation for those who are concerned about entering addiction recovery treatment and putting their life on pause.
