Akeela - Stepping Stones
Drug Rehab Center in Anchorage, Alaska
Akeela - Stepping Stones is a comprehensive addiction treatment facility in Anchorage, AK offering a range of personalized drug rehab programs, accepting private health insurance, and with over 40 years' experience in treating opioid addiction and other addictions, affiliated with Akeela Inc., one of Alaska's leading healthcare providers.
About This Anchorage, AK Facility
Akeela - Stepping Stones is an addiction treatment facility located in Anchorage, Alaska. Established in 1974, it offers comprehensive services for individuals suffering from opioid addiction, substance abuse, dual diagnosis, drug addiction, alcoholism, and mental health issues. The center relies on evidence-based treatment approaches to help clients create lasting recovery habits and overcome their addictions. Akeela - Stepping Stones takes pride in its commitment to providing aftercare support and fostering a safe and supportive environment throughout the recovery process.
At Akeela - Stepping Stones, clients can benefit from a range of personalized treatment methods tailored to their unique needs. The facility offers drug rehab programs designed to address various types of addictions comprehensively. Additionally, they provide dual-diagnosis services for individuals dealing with co-occurring mental health disorders alongside substance abuse issues. The center also offers interventions to intervene and support individuals struggling with addiction. Akeela - Stepping St diceds brings together a team of experienced professionals who understand the complexities of addiction and work hand-in-hand with clients towards lasting sobriety.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance abuse is the excessive use of any type of drug. This includes alcohol, medications and illegal drugs. Substance abuse is treated with a combination of physical and mental treatments. Akeela - Stepping Stones patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.
Opioid addiction is one of Alaska‘s most prominent forms of addiction. Drugs, including heroin, oxycontin, and fentanyl, are the most common. To relieve pain, or ease other ailments, they are professionally prescribed, but they are often abused because they and the feelings they give are addictive.
Addiction is treated by detoxifying the body, so the medications’ chemicals are no longer impacting the individual. Akeela - Stepping Stones offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.
Levels of Care Offered
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Intervention, Residential, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient’s individual requirements.
People involved in substance abuse usually are in a state of denial over the harmful effects of their changed behavior. They believe that they can overcome the addiction on their own. Intervention services in Alaska offered by Akeela - Stepping Stones help family members to motivate the affected individual to seek external support.
Aftercare support refers to the follow-up care provided after the initial rehab program. The quality of aftercare support plays an important role in preventing relapses and sustains recovery. Aftercare support at Akeela - Stepping Stones is personalized according to the needs of the patient in Alaska.
Akeela - Stepping Stones‘s Therapies & Programs
Substance abuse does a number on an individual’s relationship with other people, particularly in marriage. Spousal relationships bear the brunt of alcohol and drug dependence. Therefore, it becomes critical to submit the relationship to couples therapy to prevent straining it further. Most programs only zero in on the individual with substance addiction without factoring in the importance of the other half’s emotional support.
However, some facilities, like Akeela - Stepping Stones in Anchorage, Alaska, offer couples therapy options to manage intimate partnerships amid the recovery process. Other couples-focused treatment plans can provide the patient and their partner tools to get things back to normal, support each other, and the patient’s sobriety.Group Therapy is a type of counseling that occurs between a bunch of strangers. These groups are suitable for patients who are not confined in a treatment facility, but group sessions are also common in inpatient rehab programs. Group therapy is led by a trained individual at Akeela - Stepping Stones in Anchorage, AK and consists of members from different stages of recovery.
The goal of group therapy sessions is to foster hope and a sense of belonging, share information, and learn coping mechanisms. It also helps to have people who can relate to what you’re going through. Good behaviors can also be contagious, and participants can learn from one another.
Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) DBT is a treatment of choice for people being treated at Akeela - Stepping Stones whom are suffering from self-harming behaviors. Conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder also benefit from DBT.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. Akeela - Stepping Stones asks people to investigate how their thoughts, including habitual, negative, and inaccurate ways of thinking affect behaviors. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible ways of thinking cause people to have a limited ability to cope with stress
Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a method of specific counseling that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts with positive and productive behaviors. Self-defeating thoughts and habits can limit your possible successes. Some examples of this are procrastination, unhealthy eating and angry outbursts. You may not be aware that some unhealthy behaviors and thoughts are sabotaging your potential accomplishments.
Some people refer to contingency management, or CM, as motivational incentives. This type of therapy is a reconditioning of the mind and responses of the body. The point of CM is to help the body understand the proper responses to behaviors should be, as well as the effects that come with both problematic and desired behaviors. The more positive choices a person makes, the more incentives they will receive, all managed with sobriety goals by Akeela - Stepping Stones in Anchorage, AK.
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360 West Benson Boulevard Suite 300 Ste 300
Anchorage, AK 99503
(907) 569-0097
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Anchorage, Alaska Addiction Information
Alaska is enduring a multi-faceted drug and alcohol abuse problem. Heroin-related overdoses are 50% higher in Alaska than in the rest of the United States. Methamphetamine use is a major contributing factor to violent crime in Alaska. More than 60,000 Alaskans need some sort of treatment for substance abuse and/or addiction.
9,500 people struggle with addiction to drugs or alcohol in Anchorage. The city has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic. The most commonly abused drugs include marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, and prescription drugs. Between 2012 and 2016, there was a 64% increase in the number of deaths due to drug overdoses. Several treatments are available in Anchorage. Participants receive around-the-clock care and supervision; they also have access to a variety of therapy.
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