Drug Rehab Parklands

Drug Rehab Parklands covers Parklands, Parklands North and the surrounding Blaauwberg suburbs. This is a young-family area, and the question that comes up most is not which programme is best but who looks after the children. For how treatment works, see Drug Rehab Cape Town.

Drug Rehab Parklands: Treatment With Children at Home

Care arrangements have to be settled before admission, not improvised afterwards. Worth working out in advance:

• Who has the children for the full length of the programme, including weekends
• What the children are told, and by whom - vague explanations tend to frighten them more than plain age-appropriate ones
• School logistics and whether the school needs to know anything
• Whether the household can manage on one income during an inpatient stay

Where residential admission is genuinely impossible, intensive outpatient is the alternative - though it should be chosen because it fits, not because it is easier. See outpatient rehab.

Programme Length and Practicality

A 30 day programme is often the longest a household with young children can absorb. Whether a month is clinically enough is a separate question, and the honest answer sometimes is no. Where that is the case, planning a proper step-down matters more than usual.

Postnatal and Parental Mental Health

A number of enquiries from young-family areas involve drinking or medication use that started alongside depression or anxiety, including postnatal depression. Treating the substance use without the underlying condition rarely holds - see dual diagnosis treatment.

Areas Covered

Frequently Asked Questions