There are two kinds of outpatient programs for treatment of drug and alcohol abuse in Tennessee. They are called as the outpatient and intensive outpatient treatment program. The outpatient addiction treatment program in Tennessee is designed at people who are into a mild abuse problem that does not show any physical or mental repercussions yet. Such people can live comfortably in their own living environment and still create the determination to abstain from the substance of addiction. However, the intensive outpatient treatment programs are designed at people who have begun to show some kinds of physical and/or mental repercussions of their addiction. These people need more care than a mere outpatient program can give and hence the treatment program is employed on a more aggressive footing.

The basic difference between an outpatient and an intensive outpatient treatment program for either drug or alcohol abuse in Tennessee is in the duration. While an outpatient program will be no more than two or three sessions a week or 3-4 hour duration each time, the intensive outpatient treatment program can be conducted 5 or even all the days of a week. Both programs are conducted in the office of the treatment provider.

While the outpatient program will be more about individual treatment, the intensive outpatient addiction treatment program in Tennessee has several aspects. It can be conducted both as an individual and a group program and can also personal monitoring and assessment programs incorporated within it.

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