As the successful outcome often depends on the person to stay in treatment long enough to receive all the benefits, strategies to retain an individual within the program as a cornerstone of treatment.

The fact that the patient remains within the treatment depends on factors associated with both the individual and the program. Factors associated with the patient to influence their decision to enter and stay in treatment, including the reasons you have to change their drug-using behavior, degree of support from family and friends, and the degree of pressure to feel by the criminal justice system of child protection services, work, or family to stay in treatment.

Under the program, successful counselors are able to establish a positive therapeutic relationship with patients. The counselor should ensure the establishment of a treatment plan and that it be continued so that the patient knows what to expect during treatment. During the treatment period, patients should have access to medical, psychiatric, and social.