The first thing you need to figure out is if you have insurance. If you have insurance the next step is to figure out if the insurance company covers any or all of a stay in a residential inpatient treatment center. In the even that you do not have insurance, you may be thinking about going to an outpatient rehab program to save money. I have to tell you I do not recommend that. While going to an outpatient center will save you some money over an inpatient rehab it will ultimately just cost you more. You see, outpatient rehab doesn’t work, or works very rarely, so to take part in one is just really like throwing your money away since it isn’t going to work anyway. Atleast an inpatient rehab program might work so you’re getting something for your money. An outpatient is probably not going to do much for you. That’s been my experience anyway.

So back to the cost of drug rehab. Let’s say that you do have insurance but it doesn’t cover drug or alcohol rehabs. So what do you do? First, let me say, don’t panic. There are many great rehabs that can work out payment plans with you so that you are not killed all at once with a huge bill that you simply can not pay. So, exactly what is the drug rehab cost? The short answer is that it varies. You can find free drug rehab in many cases, though I don’t really recommend that. Then there are middle rehabs and finally there are high end rehabs.

You can expect to pay anywhere from $4,000 to $15,000 for a 28 day stay at a residential treatment center. Now, on the high end, you can pay up to $100,000 and more for a similar stay and an executive drug rehab or a luxury drug rehab. Now, most of us are not in the position where we can afford to rehab in luxury so I think the vast majority of us are looking at something in the mid-range category.

But drug rehab cost can often vary by the rehab because of the length of stay. There are many places which extend their stay well beyond 28 days. 90 day and longer treatment centers are becoming more popular and you must realize that if you are going to stay in a treatment center for three to six months you have to consider how all those monthly bills are going to start adding up.

In a nutshell that breaks down drug rehab costs. Hopefully you have insurance that will pay for drug and alcohol treatment centers because if you don’t the cost of rehab can get pretty expensive.