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Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center

Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center

Drug Rehab Center in Tucson, Arizona

  • Substance Abuse
  • Opioid Addiction
  • Mental Health
  • Eating Disorder
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Drug Addiction
  • Alcoholism

Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center is an addiction treatment center in Tucson, AZ that provides comprehensive services and accepts private health insurance to help people suffering from various types of addictions.

About This Tucson, AZ Facility

Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center, located in Tucson, Arizona, is a leading Addiction Treatment Facility dedicated to helping individuals suffering from alcoholism, substance abuse, and various mental health disorders. With a compassionate and experienced team of professionals, Desert Star offers a comprehensive range of treatment options to assist individuals in their journey towards sobriety and overall well-being. They specialize in treating conditions such as opioid addiction, dual diagnosis, eating disorders, drug addiction, and mental health disorders. Desert Star accepts private health insurance, making their services more accessible to those seeking help.

At Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center, individuals receive personalized care and support tailored to their unique needs and circumstances. They offer various levels of care, including aftercare support, drug rehab, dual-diagnosis treatment, intensive outpatient programs, outpatient programs, and partial-hospitalization programs. Their multidisciplinary approach combines evidence-based therapies, psychiatric care, and holistic interventions to address the physical, emotional, and psychological aspects of addiction. Through therapy sessions and counseling, individuals learn coping mechanisms and life skills to support their recovery journey. Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center is committed to providing a safe and nurturing environment where individuals can heal and find lasting recovery from addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders.

Genders
  • Male
  • Female
  • Gender Exclusive Center
  • Ages
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Seniors (65+)
  • Modality
  • Individuals
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Groups
  • Additional
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Hearing Impaired
  • Veteran Specific
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Smoking Allowed
  • Veterans
  • 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. Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.

    Opioid addiction is one of Arizona‘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. Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center 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 Tucson, AZ like Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center 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, 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 Arizona IOP, like what’s offerd at Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center, 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 Desert Star Addiction Recovery 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 Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center in recovering from addiction.

    The halfway point between inpatient and outpatient care is Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center‘s Partial Hospitalization Program. It is for individuals in Arizona 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.

    Aftercare Support at Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center, 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 Arizona workforce.

    Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center‘s Therapies & Programs

    Addiction in Tucson, Arizona can occur due to a wide variety of reasons. Understanding your addiction and the best methods for maintaining sobriety involves learning about yourself. Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center treatment programs include individual therapy for the greatest chances of success.

    Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center. 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 Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center in Tucson, Arizona, 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 Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center understands this. Family sessions are meant to bring Arizona 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 Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center in Tucson, AZ 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 Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center 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. Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center 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.

    Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of reliable psychotherapy that treats trauma or injury. Usually, the therapist moves his or her fingers back and forth under a bar of light. The patient undergoes various eye movements and bilateral stimulation (BLS) techniques that place them under REM sleep. This helps the brain remember traumatic incidents.

    EMDR reduces the intensity of the traumatic event and makes the patient achieve a state of tranquility. The main goal of EMDR is to treat trauma by identifying problems in the memories and addressing the links connecting traumatic memories. It also helps reduce negative emotions and bodily tensions brought on by suppressed or repressed trauma. The therapist provides solutions that can urge the patient to move forward.

    The 12-step program is a part of substance abuse treatment offered at Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center. 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.

    Nutrition therapy, which is also known as Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) involves providing healthy diet and improving the eating habits of the patient. Expert dieticians provide individualized meal plan, that addresses the specific nutritional deficiencies and the nutritional impact associated with the medicines that are given as a part of the treatment. It helps to overcome the food cravings that are seen in certain addictions and also addresses the co-occurring conditions such as eating disorders.

    Nutrition therapy is very important to support the different therapies provided as a part of comprehensive care. Nutrition therapy also teaches the associated life skills such as cooking healthy food and grocery shopping.

    Nicotine replacement is a way to move towards stopping smoking or using any form of nicotine. This can be nicotine gum or nicotine patches. The process of working with trained staff at Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center in setting a goal quit date, using nicotine replacement and gradually decreasing nicotine intake is proven to help.

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  • Medicaid
  • Military Insurance
  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
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    Additional Details

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    Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center Location and Directions
    Address Information7493 N Oracle Rd
    Tucson, Arizona 85704 Phone Number(520) 895-4356 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Tucson, Arizona Addiction Information

    Arizona has some of the highest rates of prescription drug abuse in the United States. Methamphetamines, heroin and morphine are among the most commonly abused substances. Prescription pain relievers were prescribed to 348 million people in 2012, enough to medicate every adult in Arizona for 2 full weeks. The number of people with substance use disorders in Arizona has remained relatively constant over the past few years.

    In Tucson, Arizona, drug addiction is a serious issue. In fact, according to recent statistics, there are over 15,000 people in the city who are addicted to drugs. This accounts for about 5% of the population. Tucson's most commonly abused drugs include heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine. In Tucson, Arizona, the types of treatment available include inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient rehabilitation, and 12-step programs.

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