No. As far as health insurance companies are concerned, detox and treatment are technically different.  Not every client needs medical management of their withdrawal symptoms before treatment begins. It is largely dependent on the drug of choice, length of use, and other factors that contribute to the relative severity of an individual’s withdrawal symptoms.  If a client needs detox, their time in residential treatment begins once their stay in our detox program is complete. The primary reason for doing it this way is medical safety (monitoring of their physical health, withdrawal process, vital signs and so forth).  The secondary reason is that while detoxing it can be difficult to engage in the therapeutic aspects of treatment and to fully benefit from them.