Residential long-term treatment is statistically the most optimal rehab program and method in terms of actual results when measuring long-term abstinence once treatment is complete. Residential long-term treatment in Ben Lomond, California provides the treatment client in treatment a recovery oasis. In residential long-term treatment the treatment client can participate in rehabilitation services in a secure and distraction free area where there is very little that might get in the way of their success or progress while in alcohol and drug treatment. The long-term aspect is in fact what will guarantee the person is reassured and secure enough to be able to continue to be drug free when they leave alcohol and drug rehab, because 4 weeks is most often just insufficient time in alcohol and drug rehabilitation for critically addicted people. It can take a number of months to achieve the confidence that one can continue to remain drug free, with a significant and very intensive stint in rehab in a residential drug rehab.