Residential long-term treatment is according to statistics the most optimal treatment facility and approach in terms of actual results when measuring long-term sobriety long after the individual leaves treatment. Residential long-term treatment in Alturas provides the treatment client in rehabilitation a recovery oasis. In residential long-term treatment the individual can participate in treatment activities in a more proactive and distraction free area in which there is virtually nothing that could possibly impede their good results or development while in drug and alcohol rehabilitation. The long-term concept is essentially what will ensure the individual is confident and secure enough to be able to continue to be abstinent when they leave drug and alcohol rehab, because 30 days is most often simply insufficient time in drug rehab for critically addicted persons. It can take a number of months to acquire the self confidence that one can continue to remain off of drugs and/or alcohol, with a significant and intense course of rehab in a residential drug rehab.