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Bridges Treatment and Recovery

Bridges Treatment and Recovery

Drug Rehab Center in Bellingham, Washington

  • Substance Abuse
  • Opioid Addiction
  • Mental Health
  • Drug Addiction
  • Alcoholism

Bridges Treatment and Recovery provides personalized, evidence-based treatment plans and aftercare support services to help patients struggling with addiction achieve sobriety and live healthy, fulfilling lives.

About This Washington Facility

Bridges Treatment and Recovery in Bellingham, Washington is a facility dedicated to treating people with substance abuse and addiction. With a focus on addiction recovery, Bridges Treatment and Recovery offers residential program and outpatient treatment. Their team of medical professionals, counselors and behavior therapists provide individualized care that helps people suffering from substance abuse to achieve permanent sobriety and improved mental health.

Bridges Treatment and Recovery offers an array of services and therapies to help patients reach their recovery goals. They provide comprehensive assessments to create personalized treatment plans tailored to the client's individual needs. Their facilities provide individual and group counseling, relapse prevention, and comprehensive discharge planning. In addition, Bridges Treatment and Recovery also offers a variety of 12-Step programs and educational programs that help clients from all walks of life become sober and maintain a successful recovery.

Bridges Treatment and Recovery is licensed, insured and accredited by the Washington Department of Health and the Office of Mental Health. The facility is a proud member of the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) and the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Health Care Organizations. The facility also provides an extensive alumni program, which is available to graduates of their treatment program to help them stay on their recovery path. Furthermore, Bridges Treatment and Recovery has been featured in the The Everett Herald newspaper and had two staff members recognized with the SAMHSA’s Voice Awards in 2019.

Genders
  • Male
  • Female
  • Gender Exclusive Center
  • Ages
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Seniors (65+)
  • Modality
  • Individuals
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Groups
  • Additional
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Hearing Impaired
  • Veteran Specific
  • Smoking Allowed
  • Conditions and Issues Treated

    Using both legal medications and illegal substances in order to maintain an addiction is substance abuse. If you are taking more of your prescription, or earlier than the prescribed time interval between doses than is directed you may be abusing that medication. If you are obtaining legal medications illegally in or near Bellingham, WA, you may be suffering from substance abuse.

    Illegal substances can become addictive after a single use and lead rapidly to substance abuse. The professionals at Bridges Treatment and Recovery are here to help.

    Opioid addiction treatment helps people addicted to opioids in Washington curb their drug use. The selection of a treatment setting depends on the severity of the addiction. Mild cases are usually treated in outpatient facilities; severe cases need hospitalization or treatment in a residential facility. Doctors use medicines along with counseling and behavioral therapies to treat the addiction. The treatment includes medication, counseling and therapy. It can also include group counseling, individual counseling and family counseling.

    Levels of Care Offered at Bridges Treatment and Recovery

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

    An intensive outpatient treatment program is set up for those struggling with an addiction to begin the recovery process. Patients come to Bellingham, Washington for treatment at Bridges Treatment and Recovery for therapy, support, programs, and medical supervision. Intensive outpatient treatment is often very tightly scheduled and heavily structured.

    To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, Bridges Treatment and Recovery offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the Washington patient will go to the treatment center, yet return home every night. After most of the program is completed, the level of mandatory participation reduces.

    Aftercare comprises services that help recovering addicts readjust to normal day-to-day Washington activities. It can last a year or even longer. Services include individual and family counseling, medications to reduce cravings, and treatment of psychiatric and other medical conditions. Aftercare support begins once you have completed earlier stages of treatment.

    Therapies & Programs

    Therapy plays a major role in addiction recovery. It encourages patients to get to the root of their addiction and learn how to better handle the issues that led to using. Therapy can be conducted in group and one on one settings. In Bridges Treatment and Recovery‘s individual therapy, the patient meets with the therapist in a one on one setting. This allows them to focus on the underlying issues of addiction and come up with solutions to prevent future abuse.

    One of the most common areas of stress and damage during addiction is in intimate relationships. Addiction involves everyone in a family, not only the addict. Couples therapy can rebuild trust and joy that may have been damaged.

    When the whole family is involved, healing can be far more successful. Family counseling involves genetic factors to the family of the addict. This offers the means to cope with addiction and its underlying emotional disorders for loved ones. It is a helpful method for addicts in helping to adjust to sober living.

    Attending group therapy at Bridges Treatment and Recovery in Bellingham, Washington allows those seeking sobriety to realize they are not alone in their battles. This is when a group of people all in different phases of recovery get together and speak about their battles. They talk about their triggers, their successes, their failures, and the things they can do to get on and stay on a sober path. These sessions also teach life skills, communication, healthy habits, and can include alternative types of therapy.

    Training someone on improved life skills allows for someone recovering from an addiction to feel more capable at taking care of him or herself. The skills taught at Bridges Treatment and Recovery in Bellingham, WA are daily skills that give a better recovery foundation by simply giving someone the tools they need to survive. They include communicating, time and money management, career guidance, and more.

    Payment Options Accepted

    For specific insurance or payment methods please contact us.
  • Health Insurance
  • Self-Pay / Cash
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Military Insurance
  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
  • Sliding Scale
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    Additional Details

    Specifics, location, and helpful extra information.
    Bridges Treatment and Recovery Location and Directions
    Address Information1221 Fraser St
    Bellingham, Washington 98229 Phone Number(360) 714-8180 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Bellingham, Washington Addiction Information

    Washington's substance use, abuse, and addiction rates have followed the trends of the rest of the over the past years. Methamphetamine abuse is the biggest threat to Washington. Heroin-related overdoses increased by almost 450% from 2006 to 2016. 20% of all annual deaths in Washington are somehow drug and/or alcohol-related. Drugs are widely abused in Washington because they are easily trafficked in and out of the state.

    About 6.5% of Bellingham, Washington, residents aged 12 and over reported using illicit drugs. The rates of underage drinking are also high in Bellingham. 27% of all car accident fatalities in Bellingham involved alcohol. The city is home to several different industries that can be stressful, which may lead some residents to turn to drugs as a way to cope with the stress.

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