Residential long-term treatment is statistically the most optimal rehabilitation program and approach in terms of success rates when measuring long-term abstinence long after the individual leaves treatment. Residential long-term treatment in Asheville, North Carolina provides the individual in treatment a positive and effective treatment setting. In residential long-term treatment the person can participate in rehab services in a more proactive and distraction free area where there is very little that could possibly impede their success or forward progress while in drug and alcohol rehab. The long-term concept is in fact what will help make certain the individual is reassured and confident enough to be able to continue to be drug free when they are finished with alcohol and drug rehabilitation, mainly because one month is more often than not simply not enough time in drug rehab for the more seriously addicted treatment clients. It can take several weeks to achieve the confidence that one is going to be able to continue to remain off of drugs and/or alcohol, with a significant and intense stint in rehabilitation in a residential drug rehab.