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Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center

Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center

Drug Rehab Center in Saint Helens, Oregon

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

Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center provides comprehensive mental health services in Columbia County, Oregon, including addiction and substance abuse treatment, with a focus on individualized care and support.

About This Oregon Facility

Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center is an addiction treatment facility located in Saint Helens, Oregon. Established in 1975, this center has been dedicated to providing comprehensive care for individuals suffering from alcoholism, opioid addiction, substance abuse, dual diagnosis, drug addiction, and mental health issues. With their accreditation from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and state license, Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center ensures high-quality and effective treatment options for their patients. They accept private health insurance, making their services accessible to a wide range of individuals seeking help.

At Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center, individuals can find a variety of services tailored to their specific needs. They offer aftercare support, drug rehab, dual-diagnosis treatment, intensive outpatient programs, outpatient programs, and partial-hospitalization levels of care. These services are designed to address the complex nature of addiction and provide individuals with the tools and support necessary for long-term recovery. The center's experienced professionals understand the challenges associated with addiction and substance abuse, working closely with patients to develop personalized treatment plans. By offering a range of services, Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center aims to meet the unique needs of individuals at different stages of their recovery journey.

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
  • Hearing-Impaired
  • Accreditations

    State License

    SAMHSA

    Conditions and Issues Treated

    The inappropriate use of any drug in Saint Helens, OR is substance abuse. This involves alcohol, medications, and illicit drugs. With a combination of physical and psychiatric therapies, drug addiction is successfully treated at Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center. After Detox is complete, individuals follow-up with treatments treating the root cause of the addiction.

    Opioid Addiction Treatment supports people recovering from addiction to prescription drugs as well as illegal opioids. This is a hospital-based or residential treatment. Depending upon one’s age, detox without the appropriate medication may be unpleasant or even dangerous–some get body aches, fever, chills, while others may even have seizures.

    Opioid treatment involves medically assisted detox, physical and mental support. Most rehabilitations use an array of treatments to ensure overall wellbeing, such as Medication-assisted therapy (MAT) in which one gets behavioral therapy, medicines, and counseling. A client-centered approach can reduce one’s chances of relapse. Therapists at work with the client to figure out environmental and behavioral triggers, giving them the power to change the patterns.

    When someone in Oregon struggles with both addiction and mental or emotional illness, this is considered a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis treatment can include emotional trauma, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression. Getting treatment for these issues must occur at the same time to treat either of them effectively.

    Levels of Care Offered at Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center

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

    Daily trips to the hospital that provides the treatment include intensive outpatient services (IOP). IOP in Oregon is appropriate for patients in residential recovery facilities that have been diagnosed with addiction. Patients return to their everyday lives gradually, increasing the likeliness of success in treatment.

    Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center 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 Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center in recovering from addiction.

    The halfway point between inpatient and outpatient care is Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center‘s Partial Hospitalization Program. It is for individuals in Oregon 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.

    Treatment for substance abuse does not cease after an individual successfully completes a detox or rehabilitation program. A vital follow-up treatment service is aftercare support provided to individuals at Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center in Oregon after they attain initial sobriety.

    Aftercare support often takes the following forms: 12-Step Programs, Outpatient Treatment Programs, and Support Groups. The most effective aftercare programs are tailored to meet an individual’s specific needs and circumstances.

    Therapies & Programs

    Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center. Individual therapy provides patients with a safe environment where they can openly discuss their problems with the therapist. The patients find the therapist as a person who they can trust. It helps them to open up and discuss personal and sensitive issues, which they may not be comfortable discussing in a group setting.

    Individual therapy aims to identify the core issues that would have led the patient to substance abuse and address the root cause effectively. The therapist can develop patient-specific customized solutions through individual therapy, which aids speedier recovery.

    Addiction and alcoholism always harm an addict’s relationships with others and none more than relationships with a spouse or partner. Couples therapy is an essential part of restoring trust and good communication to intimate relationships harmed by addiction. Couples therapy by Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center helps repair the damage done to these important relationships.

    Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center brings in the addict’s family to explore genetic factors. It gives loved ones the tools for dealing with addiction and its underlying mental issues. It is a recommended step in helping addicts adapt to sober living.

    Group therapy is an important tool in recovery. Addiction tends to lead to isolation and feelings of uniqueness. Accountability and friendship that is found in group therapy can be more effective than any single other treatment approach. With Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center in Saint Helens, Oregon, there’s no reason to go through recovery alone.

    Trauma is one of the most common causes of psychological disorders. It’s often found in people with addiction diagnoses. Trauma therapy addresses this by examining the emotions and thoughts people have formed due to past traumas. Traumas are complex but trauma therapy can reduce their ability to contribute to addictive behaviors.

    Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is designed for those who are prone to self-harm and suicidal behaviors. Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center aims to help patients understand the relationship between their thoughts, feeling and behaviors and it gives them the tools to make a change. It is effective for those whose addictions and behaviors stem from extreme mental health issues.

    Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the connection between how someone feels, acts, and thinks. It shows someone how to accept responsibility for their behaviors and actions, while also strengthening a person’s awareness of the circumstances they put themselves into. It can give people attending Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center in Saint Helens, Oregon the strength to realize they were self-destructing, allowing them to finally reach out and get the help they need.

    Self-defeating thoughts and habits can limit your possible successes. Some examples of this are procrastination, unhealthy eating and angry outbursts. REBT is a method of specific counseling offered by Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts.

    Rehabilitation is not just limited to bringing an individual out of addiction and achieving sobriety. It is considered complete only when an individual starts leading a normal and balanced life. Life skill therapy focuses on the various skills that helps an individual to lead a normal life. Patients often do not take care of themselves, struggle professionally and withdraw from social interaction due to the physical and emotional disturbances caused by addiction.

    Life skills therapy helps them to improve various personal, professional and social skills such as cooking healthy meals, maintaining proper hygiene, budgeting, decision making, time management, regulation of emotions and resolving the interpersonal conflicts effectively.

    A 12-Step Program is a common method that is used to treat addiction. This format is used for both drug and alcohol treatment. It is extremely popular and successful for large numbers of people and the staff at Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center are trained to assist in 12-step management.

    The right diet can improve a person’s general outlook, sleep habits and thought processing skills. MNT also lowers the occurrence of chronic diseases such as adult-onset diabetes. Dieticians like those at Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center in Saint Helens, OR believe that nutrition therapy is the key to making significant lifestyle changes.  

    Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) uses low dose nicotine products to ween smokers away from cigarettes. The products get nicotine into the bloodstream without smoking reducing addiction to the physical habit. It also allows addicts to adjust to lower doses to reduce withdrawal symptoms.

    Contingency Management (CM), also known as motivational incentives or prize method, is a behavioral therapy type. It is based on the principle that their consequences influence the behaviors of an individual. So, it promotes the desired behavior by giving rewards while discouraging the unwanted behaviors by withholding the rewards or even by giving punishments. One of the expected desired behavior is the absence of drug in a toxicology screen, and the rewards vary from prize or vouchers, to experiences. CM is used for individuals who need therapy for more than 3 months, and it has the advantage of being implemented by family members.

    Patient Experience

    Creative Arts

    It is believed that enhancing creativity and developing skills related to it can help people with addiction recover faster. Activities such as painting, writing, acting, and dancing are considered therapeutic and hosted and managed by Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center in Saint Helens, Oregon. They become outlets for patients to blow off steam, channel their emotions, and express their thoughts.

    Experiential Therapy at Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center

    Experiential therapy involves recreating or creating new experiences for the patient. Many people struggled with past issues such as memories or trauma. By creating a new experience, it allows people to work through the issues associated with those moments in a new experience. This can give them a new measure of control and can help them role play a new scenario. That can help push addiction into their past and help them begin the healing process.

    Fitness Therapy

    Opting for fitness therapy allows someone to get through addiction recovery while effectively rebuilding their body. This is a great type of therapy to pair with nutritional therapy, as the combination of getting fit and eating right can help someone in recovery feel better and make healthier choices from the start. This therapy offered by Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center in Saint Helens, OR establishes a firm connection between the body and mind, and teaches how to make healthy life habits that do not involve addiction.

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    Columbia Community Mental Health - Creekside Center Location and Directions
    Address Information58646 McNulty Way
    Saint Helens, Oregon 97051 Phone Number(503) 397-5211 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Saint Helens, Oregon Addiction Information

    Oregon’s drug abuse rates are higher when compared to other states in the country, and currently ranks 5th in the nation for drug-related health issues. Marijuana and prescription opioids are among the top drugs most often abused by teenagers in Oregon. Alcohol abuse in the state is also higher than average; over 6.25% of residents abuse alcohol every year.

    Nearly one-third of all adults are addicted to drugs or alcohol in Saint Helens, Oregon. Nearly eight percent of residents suffer from an addiction disorder. Drug overdoses were the leading cause of injury deaths nationwide for 2001-2010. In 2009, the rate of drug-induced deaths in Oregon was 13.4 per 100,000 population. This rate is higher than the national average of 11.2 per cent of population.

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