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From The Director
WHAT IS RELAPSE?
Just as with other diseases, for example, diabetes, some patients relapse. Actually there is a lower rate of relapse with addictions then there is with other illnesses. If a patient has had a lot of quality treatment and was established in the recovering community, we have a "tune up" inpatient program plan.
The program begins with an intensive intervention using a relapse model for two full days of group sessions. Then there is a transition to a research-based relapse program with weekly focused group and assigned homework modules for re-building relapse prevention skills.
There are individual sessions to review this work. Patients can resume work and attend support group meetings in the local recovering community.
The "tune up" is complete when the patient and staff deem there has been re-stabilization.
"TREATMENT WORKS"
RELAPSE CAN BE TREATED.
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IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR
Most of the numerous calls we get seeking help are from family members rather than the patient.
Often the family member is distraught, fearful,
angry, and exhausted. In the best of situations, we get the patient in for treatment, and the family becomes a part of the process. They learn when to help and when not to help.
Often the patient is far too ill to make rational decisions about their life. This is not a time for tough love as the person could die. There are other times when the patient is "over nurtured" or as one of our senior counselors states, "loved to death."
Hard to know what to do. One of the many sources of frustration for families is the difficulty they find trying to get help. Our addictions/mental health treatment system is fragmented. One of the many confusing aspects is how to pay for the treatment. Sometimes, it is a disadvantage to have private insurance, often times private insurance will not pre-authorize the care. Public insurance has avid gatekeepers and is a difficult system to work. Getting public funding through local health departments does not always work due to limited funds and difficulty meeting placement criteria.
Call us and we will help you navigate the options, at no charge. We also offer private outpatient family, couples and individual sessions. |
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TREATMENT WORKS
You may hear of families who believe treatment does not work, as it did not work for them. It does work, but there are a lot of variables to assure the patient has the correct level of care. Generally, treatment will not work:
- for most people addicted to pain medication, if they do not have a specific medication to augment treatment.
- for one going to outpatient sessions, if they are too ill to attend or to stop using, they need inpatient.
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PAIN MEDICATION
Forty-nine percent (49%) of prescription abuse involves pain medication. Our patients who became addicted to pain medication tell us, in the throes of
their addiction, some of the ways they got their pills.
- Many say they purposely "visit" those they know have prescriptions, visit the bathroom, and take them from the medicine cabinet.
- Some say they learn which neighbors take pain pills and rob those homes of the pills.
- Some have several different prescribers who do not know about the others.
- Some fake pain to get prescriptions.
- Most eventually buy them illegally from drug dealers.
It is important, when you no longer need your own pain medication, that you get rid of it rather than save it. Some pharmacies have programs where they will take it and destroy it for you. Some local police have drop off boxes.
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| Carol Porto MA, MAC, LCADC
Program Director
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