Bridge House
Drug Rehab Center in New Orleans, Louisiana
Bridge House provides a comprehensive, CARF-accredited drug rehab program with various levels of care, dual-diagnosis treatment for co-occurring mental health issues, individualized counseling, and evidence-based practices such as 12-step facilitation and cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as sober living/halfway house options for successful reintegration into the community.
About This New Orleans, LA Facility
Bridge House is a private rehab center located in New Orleans, Louisiana that specializes in the treatment of addiction, mental health, and substance abuse in all its forms. The center offers programs designed to support long-term recovery through a comprehensive, individualized approach. This approach begins with a thorough assessment and commitment to personalized care that includes an array of treatment modalities and therapies available to meet the needs of the individual. The center offers a full spectrum of care that includes outpatient services, short-term inpatient care, dual-diagnosis treatment, and aftercare.
Bridge House is a CARF-accredited center that utilizes evidence-based methodologies, such as 12-Step Facilitation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and Trauma Therapy, to create effective and meaningful treatment plans. As part of its commitment to quality, the organization also offers Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS education, anger management, employment counseling and support, life skills and life coaching, and naloxone and overdose education. Bridge House believes in offering a comprehensive, supportive, and individualized strategy to recovery that helps those struggling to achieve long-term healing and sobriety.
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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. Bridge House patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.
Opioid addiction is one of Louisiana‘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. Bridge House 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 New Orleans, LA like Bridge House provide patients with a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis gives rehab the means to treat addiction while restoring mental and emotional health.
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, Inpatient, Residential, Sober-Living / Half-Way, with additional therapies available as listed below.
An inpatient is a person who stays in a hospital or rehab center during treatment. For alcohol- and drug-dependent individuals, inpatient rehabs provide individualized around-the-clock services. Inpatient treatment programs address a person’s unique physical, medical, and psychological needs. A team of experts assess the severity of the addiction and design a highly tailored program. typically, the length of stay in an inpatient facility in New Orleans, LA is 30 days. Those with severe addiction may need to stay at the facility for 60 to 90 days.
A sober living home aims to reinforce sobriety and learnings from inpatient and outpatient programs. It’s a supervised environment in New Orleans, LA managed by Bridge House, which is guaranteed safe and free from addictive substances. There are strict rules regarding curfew and responsibilities, such as shared chores.
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.
Bridge House‘s Therapies & Programs
Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Bridge House. 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 Bridge House in New Orleans, Louisiana, 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 Bridge House in New Orleans, LA 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 Bridge House 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. Bridge House 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.
The 12-step program is a part of substance abuse treatment offered at Bridge House. 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.
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New Orleans, Louisiana 70125 Phone Number(504) 522-4475 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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New Orleans, Louisiana Addiction Information
Louisiana is one of the top ten states in the nation for opioid-related deaths. One in ten high school students admits to regularly using prescription opioids for non-medical purposes. More than 225,000 Louisiana residents admit to regular heavy drinking and around 6% of the Louisiana population abuses alcohol. Marijuana use in Louisiana is most common amongst teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 years old.
Drug addiction and abuse can greatly impact the community in New Orleans. 115 people die from an opioid overdose every day. Families are torn apart, friends are lost, and lives are forever changed due to drugs. Treatment centers in New Orleans generally follow the 12-step model of recovery, which includes steps such as admitting powerlessness over the addiction, making amends for past wrongs, and helping others who are still struggling.
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