The Importance of Inpatient Drug Rehab

An inpatient drug rehabilitation center is a place where you reside full-time under the care and guidance of medical and mental health professionals dedicated to your recovery. If you’re concerned that you’re at high risk of relapsing if you have proximity to your home, community, or friends, inpatient drug rehab provides a secure environment where you can strengthen your recovery skills rather than spending your energy avoiding risk. Without access to substances, there’s a higher likelihood that you will complete treatment, achieve sobriety, and regain psychological, social, and occupational functioning. Longer treatment stays are correlated with a higher success rate of long-term recovery. Learning the tools to prevent relapse decreases your risk of relapse or of developing another Substance Use Disorder. 

What Sets Inpatient Treatment Apart?

Inpatient drug rehab offers many benefits to those seeking to recover from Substance Use Disorder. These include:

Medical and mental health support while going through withdrawal and detox

This experience can be overwhelming and unsafe while alone. The withdrawal and detox process can be highly unpleasant and understandably an experience you want to avoid in isolation. Withdrawing from meth can cause anxiety or fatigue, while opioid withdrawal can induce body aches, digestive symptoms, high blood pressure, shaking, or fever. Other symptoms may include anxiety, restlessness, poor concentration, and poor sleep. It’s important that you withdraw with medical guidance and mental health support to reduce the risk of becoming distressed. 

In case severe or even life-threatening symptoms develop, being in inpatient drug rehab means that there is always a professional available to assess you, intervene, and/or administer medication to ease your symptoms. Having professional guidance and resources also increases your likelihood of enduring withdrawal and taking the next steps toward your recovery. 

Built-in community

If you used substances with family members or friends, you may anticipate that if you stop using you will be lonely and isolated. Another benefit of choosing inpatient drug rehab is that you have daily opportunities to connect with others having similar experiences, practice healthy communication, build sober social supports, and learn with each other as you create goals for your recovery and future.

Follow-up care for long-term recovery

Inpatient drug rehab centers typically also offer support and services that promote long-term recovery. These may include ongoing counseling, support groups, medication management, sober housing, and even services to help facilitate job transitions.

Features of WhiteSands’ Inpatient Drug Rehab in Naples

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White Sands’ inpatient drug rehab in Naples uses evidence-based practices to support you in your recovery from Substance Use Disorder. Features include:

  • Board certified and compassionate doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, and counselors with specialized training to provide high quality treatment
  • Customizable treatment plans tailored to your specific needs
  • Confidential treatment protocols protecting your dignity and privacy
  • Constant monitoring and updating of treatment programs
  • Follow-up treatment including a sober living community to promote full recovery
  • Family programs to educate loved ones and restore damaged relationships
  • Specialized treatments for grief, gender-specific issues, dual diagnosis, and trauma
  • Customized exercise programs 
  • Healthy meal
  • A supportive, close-knit community
  • Engaging activities including games, trips, sports, crafts, yoga, and other recreational activities

The Journey Through Inpatient Treatment at WhiteSands in Naples, FL

The first step in your recovery journey is to call WhiteSands Inpatient Treatment in Naples, Florida at 877.855.3470 to explore your treatment options and assess with a professional whether WhiteSands can meet your needs. The inpatient drug rehab is set in a warm, beautiful climate and there’s a peaceful view from the center during all four seasons. There are many opportunities to relax and recreate in the outdoors on your own or with others in your group. As soon as you decide you want to begin your recovery journey at WhiteSands, a professional will help you find the most efficient and affordable way to travel there. They’ll coordinate your transportation from the airport to our center, pick you up in an unmarked vehicle to insure your privacy, and do everything they can to take care of your travel details so that you can adjust to treatment and focus on your recovery.


WhiteSands recommends that you pack the following items for your stay:

  • New, unopened, and alcohol-free hygiene products
  • Enough clothing items for 7-10 days that are comfortable and appropriate for a group setting
  • Workout clothes for the exercise room and other recreational activities
  • Motivational or other books and magazines
  • ATM card to fund your patient account
  • No over the counter medications may be brought
  • Prescription medications in their original containers
  • Health insurance card
  • Information about any medical conditions you have

Upon arrival, you will be greeted by professionals who will receive your medical information, health insurance card, and any prescription medications you need to continue while in treatment. You will be shown to your room and oriented to the indoor and outdoor areas of the treatment center. As soon as possible, you will attend an inpatient intake assessment with a recovery professional to clarify your medical and mental health history, substance use history, needs, and goals. They will create a treatment plan with you that is dynamic and adjusted as necessary throughout your stay to reflect new insights or health changes. If you don’t make the progress you anticipated in the amount of time originally set for your treatment and you feel it’s best to extend your stay, the team at WhiteSands will help you check on insurance coverage for a longer stay and support you in adjusting other details and plans as needed.

Once your treatment plan is set, your schedule will become more clear. You and your recovery team will decide upon how many individual, group, and other support sessions will be most beneficial for you. There will be a combination of structured activities like meals, individual and/or counseling appointments, and group sessions, in addition to leisure time where you might choose to relax alone or join others in activities sponsored by WhiteSands. WhiteSands’ primary goals are to help you safely withdraw and stabilize your health, build healthy routines that align with your recovery goals, and support you in forming a long-term connection to the greater sober community. 

What’s the Next Step After Inpatient Drug Rehab in Naples, FL?

Recovery support continues after your treatment stay ends. You will continue to have access to individual support and services that promote long-term recovery in person or online. These may include individual or family counseling sessions, support groups, medication management, sober housing, and even services to help facilitate job or education transitions. You will work with a transition specialist to determine what support elements should be included in your ongoing recovery plan. If you reside in another city, they will even assist you in finding relevant resources in your area.

Begin Your Path to Recovery with WhiteSands in Naples

There is hope for your recovery, and you can take the first step by contacting professionals who are waiting to support you. Call WhiteSands in Naples at 877.855.3470 to explore what kind of treatment is right for you.

If you or a loved one needs help with abuse and/or treatment, please call the WhiteSands Treatment at (877) 855-3470. Our addiction specialists can assess your recovery needs and help you get the addiction treatment that provides the best chance for your long-term recovery.

About the Author

Jackie has been involved in the substance abuse and addiction treatment sector for over five years and this is something that she is truly eager about. She has a passion for writing and continuously works to create informative pieces that not only educate and inform the public about the disease of addiction but also provide solutions for those who struggle with drug and alcohol abuse.