Short-term drug rehab and alcohol treatment services in La Canada Flintridge, California are ordinarily delivered in a residential or inpatient setting for a time period of 30 days or less. Though long term drug treatment typically demands at least a 90 day stay and a much more rigorous course of treatment, short-term drug rehab and alcohol treatment services work to get the individual abstinent through detox followed by a brief course of counseling and therapy to lightly deal with emotional addiction issues. Because it usually takes several weeks if not months to truly address everything which may hang the person up and trigger relapse once they go back into the real world, short-term drug rehab and alcohol treatment services may not be recommended for those in La Canada Flintridge, California who have a trueaddiction and/or dependence to drugs.