Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services
Drug Rehab Center in Boston, Massachusetts
Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services is an accredited addiction treatment facility in Boston, MA offering evidence-based treatments such as dual-diagnosis, aftercare support, partial hospitalization levels of care and other intensive outpatient care programs to those suffering from substance abuse since 1987.
About This Boston, MA Facility
Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services, located in Roxbury, Massachusetts, stands in solidarity with those who have suffered from racism and discrimination. As a social service organization, they denounce racism and support the right of every person to live freely without fear.
Casa Esperanza focuses on providing personalized care for individuals struggling with substance abuse, mental health issues, alcoholism, opioid addiction, and dual diagnosis.
This CARF-accredited facility offers a holistic approach to treatment, addressing physical, psychological, and emotional aspects of addiction. Services include counseling, medication-assisted treatment, DBT skills, individual, family, and group psychotherapy, case management, and aftercare planning.
- Holistic and integrated care approach
- Partnership with Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program for primary care services
- Utilizes a 12-step philosophy and evidence-based approaches like DBT Skills
- Offers intervention services to help families concerned about a loved one's substance abuse
Opioid addiction is a major issue in Massachusetts, and Casa Esperanza can help by providing comprehensive treatment, including medication-assisted treatment and counseling, to support long-term recovery.
Casa Esperanza is ideal for individuals seeking a supportive, inclusive environment to overcome substance abuse and mental health challenges while working towards lasting 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. Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.
Opioid addiction is one of Massachusetts‘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. Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services 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 Boston, MA like Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services 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, Intensive Outpatient, Intervention, Outpatient, Partial-Hospitalization, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Intensive outpatient programs mostly conduct meetings on weekdays. Group therapy is the main element in most intensive outpatient programs. Most IOPs last for about 90 days and include drug use monitoring and testing. A Massachusetts IOP, like what’s offerd at Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services, take much more time than a standard outpatient program. Some programs offer other services as well, such as employment assistance and medication management.
Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services 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 Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services in recovering from addiction.
The halfway point between inpatient and outpatient care is Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services‘s Partial Hospitalization Program. It is for individuals in Massachusetts who struggle with addiction but do not need treatment round the clock. Patients may reside in a recovery facility anywhere from 18 to 30 hours per week, but they can sleep at home. The program length could be anywhere from one to six months.
An intervention is a meeting organized by the addicted individuals’ family and friends. It lets the individual know that they are loved and cared for by their friends and family. It is designed to make the addicted party accept getting additional professional assistance.
Interventions are hosted by a mental health and addiction specialist at Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services in Massachusetts, who knows how to work with people struggling with addiction. When it comes to having a loved one finally and happily consent to care, an intervention service can make all the difference.
Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services‘s Therapies & Programs
Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services. 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 Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services in Boston, Massachusetts, 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 Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services in Boston, MA 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 Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services 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. Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services 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 Casa Esperanza - Familias Unidas Outpatient Services. 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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245 Eustis St
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Boston, Massachusetts Addiction Information
Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of drug abuse in the country. More than half a million Massachusetts residents abuse alcohol while more than 1.5 million use illegal drugs each year. This drug and alcohol usage is the cause of over 8% of all deaths in the state. In 2017, Massachusetts ranked in the top 10 of the states with the highest opioid overdose rates.
Boston has one of the highest rates of opioid abuse in the country. 1 in 10 residents struggles with substance abuse. Between 2013 and 2017, the number of opioid-related deaths in the area increased by 64%. There were over 1,100 overdose deaths in 2016. Detox is the first step in most treatment programs in Boston. This is where the person stops using drugs and allows their body to cleanse itself of toxins.
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