Senior rehabs are designed to specifically meet the treatment needs of older and elderly rehab clients. Drug use among older individuals and the elderly is a major problem, especially as "baby boomers" reach their 50s and 60s. The time period which these individuals come from experienced rampant recreational drug abuse, and for some this continued to their senior years. As individuals age, the consequences related to substance abuse become intensified because older adults have a heightened sensitivity to these substances. There is also the fact that many seniors are on some kind of prescription drug for a health condition, then when these prescriptions medication is misused or combined with alcohol or another recreational drugs, it can be a risky and lethal concoction. So it is very important help provide a means for seniors and older adults to obtain help for any kind of drug use issue before significant negative effects result. Senior centers offer older adults the ability to live out their mosy enjoyable years substance free, to allow them to enjoy this critical time in life and not have to deal with the stresses caused by a life of substance abuse.