Residential long-term treatment is statistically the most proven and workable rehabilitation facility and approach in terms of actual results when considering long-term abstinence long after the individual leaves treatment. Residential long-term treatment in Laotto provides the individual in rehabilitation a recovery treatment setting. In residential long-term treatment the treatment client can participate in treatment activities in a more proactive and distraction free area in which there is virtually nothing that might get in the way of their successes or forward progress while in drug and alcohol treatment. The long-term concept is essentially what will ensure the individual is confident and secure enough to be able to remain abstinent when they leave drug and alcohol treatment, mainly because 30 days is most often just insufficient time in drug treatment for seriously addicted treatment clients. It can take several months to achieve the self confidence that one is going to be able to stay off of drugs and/or alcohol, with a significant and very intensive course of treatment in a residential drug rehab.