Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation is an intensive treatment program that integrates a range of services and therapeutic activities, including counselling, behavioural treatment, social and community living skills, relapse prevention and recreational activities. This type of treatment is not available for people who received treatment for someone else’s alcohol or drug use.
In 2024–25, for a client’s own alcohol or drug use:
- Rehabilitation accounted for 1 in 14 (8.0%, 17,096) treatment episodes.
- Rehabilitation treatment most commonly involved alcohol (39%) or methamphetamine (34%) as the principal drug of concern (tables Trt.3, Trt.47).
Client profile
In 2024–25, 7,303 clients received rehabilitation treatment for their own alcohol or drug use:
- 3 in 5 (63%) were male.
- 3 in 5 (58%) were aged 30–49.
- 3 in 10 (32%) were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) people (tables SC.18–20).
Treatment profile
In 2024–25, for rehabilitation episodes for a client’s own alcohol or drug use:
- 38% of episodes lasted 1–3 months and 37% lasted between 2–29 days.
Between 2015–16 and 2024–25:
- The duration of rehabilitation treatment remained relatively stable, which may be related to rehabilitation programs lasting a set period of time (Table Trt.52).
- The median duration for rehabilitation treatment was highest in 2016–17 at 53 days and dropped to 40 days in 2024–25 (Table OV.11).