
Inpatient or outpatient? That one simple question determines the amount of money that is spent on addiction treatment. Inpatient programs cost more. Doctors believe, and research backs them, that an inpatient program is much more likely to be successful. The cost of inpatient can range to $40,000. The average cost of treatment estimated by the National Substance Abuse Treatment Services Survey (N-SATSS) is a mere $7,000 monthly. Inpatient programs regularly last more than a single month. Public funding pays a large part of all spending in the area of substance abuse treatment. Its estimated 80 percent of the money for these programs comes from the public treasury.