What are the rules of a behavioral addiction inpatient facility?

What are the rules of a behavioral addiction inpatient facility?

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Yes, there's quite a few demands on anybody that goes into any sort of residential inpatient facility. But they mostly revolve around not obviously using drugs, trying not to engage in their addictive behavior, generally speaking they do not have access to computers, cell phones, typical outside sort of connection. The goal, again, is to cut the individual away from the environment that fostered, literally fostered, part of this addiction. So there's a big disconnect, there's usually just one telephone on the ward where everyone has to use it calling in, calling out, and it's only allowed during certain hours. And you're not supposed to isolate, you know, not avoid groups and there's certain sort of each--depending on the facility and their rules, it gets more intense but those are sort of general rules that you might find in an inpatient facility.