TREATMENT SERVICES

Adaego Recovery is an outpatient program for the treatment of substance use disorder and mental health problems. Outpatient treatment is an approach to the treatment of substance use disorder that allows the client to continue with work, school, and family responsibilities while still obtaining the support they need.

The Process (Substance Use)

The client will begin engagement with the Adaego Recovery Treatment program with the initial screening for admission. The screening session will be conducted to evaluate for any medical risk for acute withdrawal. Once the client is evaluated as medically stable and appropriate for outpatient treatment, they will be admitted into the treatment program.

The client will progress through three phases of treatment over a 12-week time span. Each phase will take about 4 weeks to achieve the objectives of the phase.

Phase One

The “Getting Sober” phase involves the client learning about substance use disorder and recovery and achieving initial sobriety by maintaining abstinence from intoxicating substance use for 30 continuous days.

Phase Two

The “Staying Sober” phase involves the client developing relapse prevention skills and achievement of 60 days of continuous sobriety.

Phase Three

The “Awakening” phase and it involves the client developing strategies to resolve their deeper core issues related to distortions in the way they react to thoughts, emotions and interpersonal relationships. This phase will conclude when the client achieves 90 days of continuous sobriety.

MENTAL HEALTH

Mental disorders involve changes in thinking, mood, and/or behavior. These disorders can affect how we relate to others and make choices. There is a known connection between mental illness and substance abuse. Mental and substance use disorders together share some underlying causes, including changes in brain composition, genetic vulnerabilities, and early exposure to stress or trauma. Some people with mental disorders can misuse substances as a form of self-medication which can sometimes lead to drug and alcohol use, causing some people with addiction to experience one or more mental health issues such as Depressive Disorders, Anxiety Disorder, Personality Disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Bipolar Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) and schizophrenia.
Adaego Recovery provides routine screenings and assessments for mental illness, to ensure that staff is aware and can get to the root cause of all the issues surrounding our client’s recovery journey.

FAMILY SUPPORT

At Adaego Recovery, we are confident that you are choosing the best possible option for your loved one’s recovery process. We are committed to providing compassionate individualized treatment plans to maximize your loved one’s potential.

Families are the most immediate support system, and we understand the dramatic impact your loved ones' substance use disorder has had on you and your family. We strive to recognize the importance families and friends have on our client’s recovery process.

COUNSELING

Counseling services are provided by appropriately credentialed and supervised counselors with utilization of special skills to assist individuals, families or groups in achieving objectives through exploration of a problem and its ramifications; examination of attitudes and feelings; consideration of alternative solutions; and decision-making. Adaego Recovery outpatient treatment program counseling services include:

Group counseling
Conducted in groups of 16 or fewer clients where the counselor facilitates a group process in which all members of the group are encouraged to participate in discussion of problems and solutions.

Individual counseling
Individual counseling will be conducted with the counselor meeting privately with the client with the goal to enhance motivation for change and to continue assessment of needs and progress.

Family counseling
With the consent of the client, family counseling will be conducted by the counselor meeting with the client and significant other, as well as people identified by the client and the counselor throughout the treatment and discharge planning process, to optimize long term success.

CRISIS INTERVENTION

Crisis Intervention responds to a client’s needs during acute emotional and/or physical distress. Crisis intervention is provided as needed in an effort to stabilize the client during the acute state of distress. Crisis intervention will include assessment of the client’s mental status and risk for harm to self or others.

Clinical staff will use supportive counseling to help clients achieve stabilization. If the client remains in a state of crisis after clinical staff provides crisis intervention, then the client will be referred to emergency services. When stabilization is achieved, the client will be assessed for appropriateness to continue in the outpatient treatment program.

CASE MANAGEMENT

Activities which bring services, agencies, resources, or people together within a planned framework of action toward the achievement of established goals. It may involve liaison activities and collateral contacts. Case management is provided as an ongoing process in which the counselor is monitoring the client progress and identifying client needs for services and resources. The counselor will communicate recommendations to the client and provide support to the client in accessing services and resources.

TRAUMA, LOSS AND GRIEF

Grief is a natural response of pain and sadness that is associated with loss. The process can last for months or even years, as there is no timetable for how long grief will last. People will experience grief, for as long as it takes them to adjust to changes in their lives that is linked with their loss. Without the support of a therapeutic outlet, some can skip the stages of grief, and when this happens, it can lead to self-medication, causing addictive behaviors and other negative predispositions. There are 5 stages of grief, which include:

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

Trauma is a response to a deeply disturbing and distressing event that overpowers one’s ability to cope, which can cause feelings of helplessness, anxiety and acute stress disorders. Trauma leads to the development of grief, and for many individuals, the reason for grieving stems from trauma. Some examples of trauma are:

• Being a victim/witnessing of a crime, assault, theft
• Sexual, physical, emotional, physical assault
• The loss of a loved one
• Being diagnosed with an illness
• Being a victim of an accident

When addiction develops due to grief and trauma, it’s important to address each issue, as they all affect one another. During treatment, our skilled and qualified staff, will teach you therapeutic means to work through the stages of grief to reach acceptance, and work towards identifying how the root cause of the addiction, and how grief and trauma can stimulate addictive behaviors. Before the end of the program, our clients will develop helpful coping mechanisms to deal with symptoms of their unresolved trauma.

SPIRITUALITY

Addiction recovery involves change and restoration, which leads to personal growth. During this time, many lean on their spirituality, which for some, involves practicing their religion, and for others, means connecting with nature or a path to personal growth. Spirituality can provide many benefits to those in addiction recovery. Spirituality can provide better guidance for better ways of living and help to challenge harmful thoughts and beliefs. Some of the steps in this program include prayer, meditation and relating to a higher power about their struggles. This is done in a group setting or individual counseling, emphasizing a sense of spiritual connection. Substance use affects interpersonal relationships in many ways such as:

• Enabling- Doing something that furthers your loved ones addiction even though you may have good intentions, such as lying for them, ignoring their addiction, financially supporting them, prioritizing their needs before yours and blaming other people or factors for their substance use.
• Secrecy and Trust Issues- To hide their addiction, many become secretive and lie to their loved ones.
• Financial problems- Those struggling with addiction may lie about where their money is going, and the fact that they are spending so much money to fuel their addiction. The financial issues caused by addiction are often times far greater.
• Anger- Substance use can often decrease a person’s ability to deal with and manage their emotions. The anger can stem from the aftermath of the issues brought about by addiction or anger between loved ones.
• Violence and Abuse- Substance use can increase a person’s aggression, and those struggling with addiction sometimes have an increased tendency to become violent. This can put their loved ones at risk for abuse. Unfortunately, domestic violence is common in relationships affected by substance use.
• Co-Dependency- When one or both partners perform actions that force them to rely on the other person physically or psychologically and neither person in the relationship takes action to get their loved one struggling with addiction help, they form a codependency on each other, enabling their actions and leading to deeper substance abuse.

One of the best ways to repair damages caused in interpersonal relationships by substance use, is first and foremost getting the help that you or your loved ones needs, going to family or couples therapy, having open communication with loved ones to allow healing to take place and attending AA and NA meetings.

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

One of the most common misconceptions about substance use is that it is a problem that solely affects the person struggling with the addiction, and therefore only affects them. This can cause the person battling with addiction to deal with it alone without the help or support of others.

Addiction affects everyone closely tied to the person struggling with substance use. Loved ones are often physically, mentally and psychologically harmed by their loved one’s substance use. Understanding how your relationship is affected by substance use, whether it is you or your loved one battling with addiction, can help the person struggling get assistance and help sooner and resolve the damage substance use caused.

RECOVERY LIFESTYLE

Recovery is an ongoing journey, a lifestyle that encompasses every aspect of day-to-day living; treatment is the first step. Adaego Recovery takes the client beyond the initial task of achieving sobriety into the development of a recovery lifestyle that empowers them to maintain sobriety and resolve the life problems that contributed to the development and maintenance of the substance use disorder. This comprehensive long-term approach gives the client their best chance of maintaining sobriety throughout their lifespan
Recovery isn’t just about drug and alcohol secession; it is also about healing from trauma and mental health related disorders that lie at the root of substance use. The recovery lifestyle also recognizes that setbacks are inevitable, and therefore, it is crucial to develop resilience- being able to return to a healthy baseline continue to move forward after a relapse or a return to unhealthy habits. At Adaego Recovery, you are taught to address the underlying issues, understanding vulnerabilities and triggers, and discovering healthy practices and self-care approaches to replace coping mechanisms.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) defines recovery as “a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.” The four key dimensions of recovery lifestyle that SAMHSA describes are:
1. Health- Abstaining from substance use while maintaining a healthy nutrition, sleep, exercise, mental and emotional health needs.
2. Home- Having a safe place to live such as your home or home with parents, sober living community, dorm or with roommates who support your recovery lifestyle.
3. Purpose- Your daily activities that gives your life its meaning. Something you’re passionate about such as your job, school, or volunteer/activist work.
4. Community- Includes family, friends, support networks, and other relationships that create a sense of belonging and authentic support and connection.

MEDITATION

Meditation is the art of quieting the mind and allowing yourself to tune into your innermost feelings. Meditation as a mindfulness practice allows you to reduce anxiety, increase focus, and allow for deeper reflection and insight development. Meditation can be done through breathing exercises, guided imagery and mindfulness exercises. This practice can help enhance the individuals therapeutic work allowing the space and serenity to process the transformational work of the recovery that’s taking place.

ART THERAPY

Art Therapy is one of the more creative therapeutic outlets that we utilize here at Adaego Recovery. It is one of the holistic therapeutic treatment methods that we offer, that helps deal with the underlying reasons for substance use.

You will be able to enhance your creative abilities through guided imagery, paintings, drawings, and vision boards. These will help you express your inner feelings and emotions using visual techniques with a skilled and qualified staff.

NUTRITION

Everyone needs to develop a healthy eating habit, particularly those recovering from substance use even if it’s a short-term use. Addiction can take a huge toll on the body as it is forced to defend itself against damage caused by substance use and perform overtime to eliminate toxic substances. A healthy diet and nutritional balance is key to repairing harm caused by addiction. Some of the symptoms experienced with substance use are:
• Loss of appetite
• Poor eating habits
• Organ damage
• Gastrointestinal disorders

Opioid causes appetite suppression and disordered eating caused by excess dopamine production, and contemplating eating or drug use. Some tend to skip meals, eat fewer meals a day, put off eating to enable opioid intoxication, failing to eat enough fruits and vegetables or funding their addiction with money intended for food. Constipation is another issue that comes with opioid use and can become severe over time. As the condition worsens, eating can become painful, causing increase in appetite suppression.

Alcohol prevents food-albeit healthy-, from being absorbed. Those who indulge in alcohol use typically don’t pay attention to their nutrition because they are consumed with their need to find and drink alcohol. Alcohol use can cause harm to your digestive organs such as pancreas and liver. The pancreas makes enzymes necessary for digesting fats, proteins and carbs, and produces hormones essential for balancing blood sugar. The liver breaks down toxins, including alcohol. The alcohol from heavy drinking will circulate in the blood longer if it stops working correctly, causing more damage to the digestive system. Alcohol can cause severe deficiencies in essential nutrients such as folic acid, thiamin B6, and thiamine, also known as B1. Lack of these nutrients can cause anemia.

LIFE/CAREER SKILLS

Having the essential skills to deal with problems and adversities of life in a healthy and productive manner without resorting to drugs and alcohol as a crutch in times of hardship, is an import part of Adaego Recovery Programs. While learning how to avoid destructive behavior such as substance abuse, you will also learn the essential skills to better manage:

• Stress: Many have not developed the coping mechanisms to deal with the
sources of stress that comes with life in a health and productive manner. At Adaego, you will be taught how to affectively manage emotions in order to avoid seeking relief from drugs and alcohol due to stress caused by work, school, relationships/ families.
• Social skills: Effective social communication skills are essential for
communicating in an effective manner, to avoid unnecessary misinterpretations and misunderstandings. Many may feel that drugs and alcohol lessen their insecurities or anxieties in public settings, so they turn to substance use, to navigate through their social life. In life skills training, clients learn important social and professional communication skills which eliminate the desire to drink or drug to cope with daily life.
• Financial Wellness: Addiction and irresponsible spending habits go hand in
hand, as many addicts are reaching into their savings to fuel their addiction. Building a plan for future financial responsibility including job security, and learning how to set and maintain a sensible budget and spending are some of the essential keys to a successful recovery, and one that our skilled staffing will teach at Adaego Recovery.
• Physical Fitness: Substance use can affect one’s physical health, which
often times results in weight loss, malnutrition and increased toxins. We teach our clients to keep physical well-being at the center of their recovery here at Adaego Recovery; from ensuring that exercise, proper nutrition and sleeping habits are at a high priority in their recovery.
• Mental Clarity: Life skills training restores a sense of focus and balance to
one’s inner life when their priority becomes impacted by substance use.
• Resistance: At Adaego recovery, you will be taught the necessary skills
needed for resisting the urge and cravings of addictive substances.
• Self-management: Life Skills training program will teach clients how to
manage feelings of stress, anxiety, loneliness, rejection, and alienation.

ANGER MANAGEMENT

Everyone gets angry, but anger can take a toll on your physical and mental health. In our psycho-therapeutic program we focus on improving your coping and communication skills by changing the way you think about situations, expressing anger in healthy ways, and relaxation techniques to help you pause before reacting. In our anger management therapy, also a form of cognitive behavioral therapy, you’ll work with a mental healthcare provider to recognize when you’re angry and develop coping skills and strategies so you can deal with these feelings in a way that’s healthy and sustainable for you.

PARENTING

Our parenting course is an educational program that provides guidance and support to parents on various aspects of raising children. It covers topics like child development, discipline, communication, and fostering a positive parent-child relationship. Its important as it equips parents with tools to navigate challenges, promote healthy development, and create a supportive family environment.