The residential drug treatment program in Nebraska is the severest form of treatment. It isolates the person for long periods of time; up to a year or even more, and keeps them in a community setting where there are several therapies running concurrently to help the person come out of drug addiction and into a total life of sobriety. However, this program is not suitable, and not necessary even, for most people. There are specific guidelines in the addiction treatment program in Nebraska as to who can be eligible for such a form of treatment.

The following is a list of some groups of people who can be put into residential treatment in the state.

1. People who have tried other forms of treatment such as outpatient treatment, inpatient treatment and the detox program in Nebraska may now join a residential treatment program. It is true that the residential program is treated as the last resort at treatment. But it is the best planned program, engineered to succeed.
2. People who have hit bottom in some way or the other with their addictions will be put into a residential treatment program in Nebraska. These situations could include hospitalization due to a health complication, committing an offense under influence, going into a mental state due to addiction, an overdose, etc.
3. People who have been convicted for crimes committed under the influence are ordered into residential programs in Nebraska by the drug courts. For such people, this program is compulsory and inescapable.