Residential long-term treatment is statistically the most optimal rehab facility and approach in terms of success rates when measuring long-term abstinence long after the individual leaves treatment. Residential long-term treatment in Elba offers the individual in treatment a recovery treatment setting. In residential long-term treatment the person can participate in rehab methods in a more proactive and distraction free setting in which there is very little that might impede their good results or forward progress while in alcohol and drug rehab. The long-term aspect is in essence what will guarantee the treatment client is confident and stable enough to be able to continue to be abstinent when they are finished with alcohol and drug treatment, mainly because one month is most often simply not enough time in drug and alcohol treatment for critically addicted individuals. It can take several weeks to acquire the confidence that one is going to be able to continue to remain off of drugs and/or alcohol, with a lengthy and intense course of treatment in a residential drug rehab.