Background: Indonesia is experiencing a drug crisis. This phenomena illustrates the urgency of right and appropriate solutions from various parties as well as scientific disciplines to overcome the global illicit trade and use of drugs and the effective rehabilitation process for victims, so that they will eventually recover permanently from drug addiction. One alternative treatment for overcoming drug dependence and addiction is to use Emotional Freedom Techniques-based therapy, which is a series of methods that are oriented to the body's energy system to release individuals from emotional and physical disorders. This therapy is extensively and systematically easy to understand and to practice by anyone. 

Methods: this research is a descriptive qualitative study to reveal various qualitative information with a careful and meaningful description-analysis. The strategy used in this research is a case study. The population was drug addicts and drug abusers in Hafara rehabilitation center in Yogyakarta. This study used purposive sampling as sampling technique including inclusion and exclusion criteria. The data collection techniques used were; interviews, observations, documentation in the form of stored notes, and Focus Group Discussions. The data analysis before going on the field was done on secondary data, meanwhile, that used data reduction during the field. 

Results: through Emotional Freedom Techniques, respondents who initially felt emotional burdens and feelings of discomfort, doubt, pessimism, got a difference. This was indicated by using the Subjective Unit of Discomfort scale, which was a scale of 0 - 10. This was shown that at the beginning, client 1 was on scale 5 and client 2 was on scale 7. After going through a series of Emotional Freedom Techniques, both clients felt lighter, more relax, comfortable on a scale of 0, meaning that they were regardless of the emotional burden. 

Conclusion: Emotional Freedom Techniques based therapy can be applied to rehabilitate drug victims with effective results.

Keywords: Therapy, Emotional Freedom Techniques, drug abuse.