Online Counseling: Is It Effective to Treat Drug Addicts and Alcoholics?

“Yes” or “No”- if you want the answer in this format then well it’s a “Yes” that online counseling too can treat drug addicts and alcoholics. But mind it that online counseling can never become the medium of complete treatment for addicts who have reached a chromic level.

The positive prospects

In the initial stage if someone is caught to involve in such habits, a positive direction can be shown or a method of prohibition can be implied through online guidance. Again online counseling can be helpful when a person has been treated in a rehabilitation center and nearly cured. At that time the mode of online counseling provides an additional support to the person along with psychological boosting. In this ways as well the chances of getting deviated in any form is to a greater extent restricted.

Among the other positive aspects, the importance of online counseling also lies in its instant connectivity and all-time accessibility. You have to just log on to the site and browse according to your need of information.

Only a part

Online treatment for the drug addicts can in no way compete with the direct rehabilitation process. It can only become a part of the whole treatment procedure. Even the rehabs can take the help of online counseling and suggest the addicted person to keep associated with the online service whenever required.

As the comprehensive treatment for the drug addicts and alcoholics has a larger side related to medication and other physical treatment, in no way the online methodology can suffice to fulfill these needs.

Other limitations

Online counseling to the drug addicts can never provide the ambience, which can take place in a room between the counselor and the patient. The one-to-one communication and coordination is missing in the online process.

Different types of arrangements that are made feasible, say for the direct visual aids and the audio-modulated services in the direct counseling are unavailable through the online medium. The therapists and the counselors share a very humble and even an intimate relationship with the patients. This becomes very important for the badly affected ones from drugs. A feeling in the patient’s mind has to be created where he/she can depend on the person who is treating him/her. A sense of reliability must be developed. The rehabilitation process looks into this aspect with sincerity. But how can the online process provide this bonhomie?