South Africa is in the fortunate position to have drug rehabilitation centres that compare with the best in the world. A drug rehabilitation centre, like First Step, is established to face the problem of drug addiction that has gripped our country by brute force.
The wave of drug abuse all over the world continues to cause havoc among people from all over the world. Despite all the attempts by authorities and society as a whole to warn people on the dangers of drug use and abuse people fall daily into the trap of abuse and eventually addiction. This is costing society and governments billions in monetary terms as the cost to rehabilitate such a person is high. This is minute in comparison to the damage done by such a person before they get to the point of rehabilitation.
First Step Drug Rehabilitation Centre caters for all the needs of patients to ensure a complete recovery by the patient. This includes the facility itself and the highly professional staff that man the facility. Each patient is treated as an individual and a complete addiction assessment is made to establish that patients specific needs and a programme is worked out for the patient to ensure their full recovery. This programme will include the family of the patient who forms an integral part of the process. The family is helped to overcome their own trauma caused by the addiction of the patient and is helped to understand the way forward after the programme is completed.