[GoGophers]

How do you know it was detox only?

I am not an expert on this issue, but I think the length of time is the determining factor (detox is a shorter process).

[huck von finn]

Oh, I know what detox is. But I don't know that I've ever heard of people simply going to a hospital to be detoxed without going on with regular treatment--unless they changed their minds about wanting to get help.

Detox is just the process by which medical people get the offending drugs out of the addict's system. It takes a matter of days, if I recall correctly--or a week or two.

Treatment involves all kinds of other things, and lasts for thirty days (a shortie) to three months. And then after that, addicts usually receive aftercare and go to support entities like NA, AA, etc.

But I don't know where this idea of Rush's going in for just detox came from. He certainly didn't say so in his recent statement.