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ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces

Drug Rehab Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico

  • Substance Abuse
  • Opioid Addiction
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Drug Addiction
  • Alcoholism

ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces is an accredited addiction treatment facility in Las Cruces, NM providing personalized aftercare support services and various evidence-based therapies to help individuals suffering from opioid addiction, substance abuse, dual diagnosis, drug addiction, and alcoholism.

About This Las Cruces, NM Facility

ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces in Las Cruces, New Mexico is a premier addiction treatment facility dedicated to helping those in need of recovery. With state-of-the-art clinical services, specialized addiction treatment and recovery programs, and a compassionate staff, ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces provides safe and effective rehabilitation to those suffering from addiction and substance use. The facility utilizes evidence-based therapeutic interventions and holistic healing approaches to help their clients achieve long-term recovery.

ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces offers a variety of services for those suffering from addiction and substance abuse, including individual and group counseling, relapse prevention, anger management, and life skills classes. In addition, they provide family counseling, stress management, and an array of experiential therapies like art and music therapy, yoga and mindfulness, and more. The staff also provide 24-hour nursing care and medical supervision to ensure the highest level of safety and comfort for their clients.

In addition to the many services they offer, ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces has achieved accreditation from the Joint Commission, one of the most prestigious organizations in health care. They also hold licenses from the Office of Substance Abuse Services and the Health Department. Furthermore, they recently received the 2020 Excellence Award from the Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce, recognizing their exceptional commitment to providing quality care and support to those in need.

Genders
  • Male
  • Female
  • Gender Exclusive Center
  • Ages
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Seniors (65+)
  • Modality
  • Individuals
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Groups
  • Additional
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Hearing Impaired
  • Veteran Specific
  • SAMHSA Listed
  • Additional Languages
  • Accreditations

    SAMHSA

    CARF

    The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.

    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. ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.

    Opioid addiction is one of New Mexico‘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. ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.

    Some of the most common co-occurring disorders are schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. Most rehab facilities in Las Cruces, NM like ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces provide patients with a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis gives rehab the means to treat addiction while restoring mental and emotional health.

    Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Dual Diagnosis (Co-Occuring Disorders), Opioid Addiction, Substance Abuse 

    Levels of Care Offered

    This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.

    Detox treatment begins when the patient leaves their surroundings of family and friends, which is usually when they are most vulnerable. Being in a safe environment surrounded by medical professionals provides them with the safety net many of them need to get over their addiction. With kind and caring staff members, patients can feel relaxed, and they will need to start by admitting that they have a problem in order to get better.

    If a person goes through detox treatment, they will understand their addiction better, and they won’t want to relapse and lose all the benefits of sobriety. They can see the effects of using drugs and how it makes them feel, which will make them want to quit their addiction.

    Drug detox is vital to the recovery process, and it ensures that a patient will be in a safe environment during their withdrawal.

    Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces long term. In addition to helping them recover, the patient attends regular therapy sessions and detox and participates in other therapies. However, this is all primarily done from home. As a follow-up to inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment is usually recommended.

    After rehabilitation, it helps people return to their everyday lives. It may also be an alternative to inpatient care in some situations. If they cannot leave their jobs, children, or don’t have the money for inpatient care, people can choose this method. Inpatient therapy, however, is the best method and most suggested level of treatment offered by ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces in recovering from addiction.

    Aftercare Support at ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces, in short, is the support provided to a patient after they have finished treatment. It allows them to adjust to everyday life. It may entail setting them up and enrolling them in services such as Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) inside a halfway house. Career coaching may also be offered to patients to help them get back into the New Mexico workforce.

    ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces‘s Therapies & Programs

    Addiction in Las Cruces, New Mexico can occur due to a wide variety of reasons. Understanding your addiction and the best methods for maintaining sobriety involves learning about yourself. ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces treatment programs include individual therapy for the greatest chances of success.

    Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces. This builds a personal and trusting relationship so you can truly be yourself and express any emotions as you feel them. Individual therapy leads to greater peace and understanding about your triggers for addiction and coping strategies to prevent relapse.

    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 ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces in Las Cruces, New Mexico, 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.
    Addiction is a family disease. Family therapy aims to heal and rebalance unhealthy roles and habits. Healing any family trauma and dysfunctional communications is important, and ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces understands this. Family sessions are meant to bring New Mexico families closer together and live sober, healthy, lives.

    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 ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces in Las Cruces, NM 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 ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces 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. ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces 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

    The 12-step program is a part of substance abuse treatment offered at ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces. It was initially developed by the founders of Alcoholics anonymous. The program provides the benefit of cognitive restructuring. It refers to the process of change in the negative thoughts that leads to long-term benefits.

    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 ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces in Las Cruces, NM.

    12-Step Facilitation, Aftercare, Anger Management, Case Management, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), Contingency management/motivational incentives, Couples Therapy, Detox, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Discharge Planning, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Employment Counseling / Training, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis, Hepatitis Education / Counseling / Support, HIV or AIDS education, Individual Therapy, Intervention, Maintenance, Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), Methadone, Naloxone and overdose education, Outpatient Treatment (OP), Residential Long Term (>30 Days), Suboxone Therapy, Substance Use Counseling, Trauma Therapy

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  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
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    ALT Recovery Group - La Cruces Location and Directions
    Address Information1141 Mall Dr
    Las Cruces, New Mexico 88011 Phone Number(575) 522-0660 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Las Cruces, New Mexico Addiction Information

    New Mexico has been one of the leading states in the nation when it comes to drug and alcohol use, abuse, and addiction. Opioids are responsible for over 60% of all drug-related overdoses in New Mexico. Alcohol-related deaths in New Mexico are the highest in the nation and almost twice the national average since 2000.

    14.2% of high school students in Las Cruces reported using an illicit drug. Marijuana is the most commonly used drug with an annual prevalence of 10.4%. Alcohol abuse is also a problem, with 20% of adults reporting binge drinking. Women account for 12% of those incarcerated on drug charges. Several treatment options are available in Las Cruces. Some of the most common include inpatient rehab, outpatient rehab, and 12-step programs.

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