Yes. gender-specific and gender-separate treatment significantly increases treatment efficacy by providing a safe and secure environment for adolescents to explore sensitive underlying issues such as trauma or depression that lead to their need to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol. A gender-specific treatment setting also minimizes the obvious distraction of a mixed-gender setting, allowing teens to focus on interpersonal issues rather than the opposite sex. It is widely accepted that our gender-separate setting for teens is an optimal residential teen rehab setting.