Residential long-term treatment is statistically the most optimal treatment facility and treatment approach in terms of success rates when considering long-term sobriety once treatment is complete. Residential long-term treatment in Smith River, California provides the individual in treatment a recovery oasis. In residential long-term treatment the treatment client can involved in treatment activities in a more proactive and distraction free area where there is very little that might cut across their successes or forward progress while in drug treatment. The long-term element is essentially what will ensure the treatment client is self assured and confident enough to be able to remain abstinent when they are finished with drug and alcohol rehab, because 30 days is more often than not simply not enough time in alcohol and drug rehabilitation for critically addicted individuals. It can take several months to acquire the self confidence that one can stay off of drugs and/or alcohol, with a significant and very intensive course of rehabilitation in a residential drug rehab.