Dimock Community Health Center
Drug Rehab Center in Boston, Massachusetts
The Dimock Community Health Center in Boston, MA is a trusted healthcare provider with over 150 years of experience offering a wide range of services for addiction treatment, mental health, and medical care.
About This Massachusetts Facility
The Dimock Center, located in Roxbury, Massachusetts, is a comprehensive community health center that provides culturally-competent health services, behavioral health services, and family services. With a focus on healing and uplifting individuals and families, Dimock offers alcohol and drug rehab programming along with mental health treatment.
The Center takes a person-centered approach, offering medication-assisted treatment that combines FDA-approved medications with mental health therapy. Clients receive support in managing withdrawal symptoms and cravings while addressing underlying issues through counseling. Dimock also provides an outpatient program, meeting for 3.5 hours per day over several weeks, where clients work closely with counselors and may receive psychiatric care.
Accredited by the Joint Commission, Dimock has been serving the community since 1862, making it one of the oldest and most experienced addiction treatment facilities in the United States. With a 35-bed facility, Dimock offers a range of evidence-based treatments, including couples therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, experiential therapy, and nutrition therapy.
- Comprehensive, culturally-competent services for individuals and families
- Medication-assisted treatment and outpatient programs
- Experienced provider, serving the community since 1862
The Dimock Center specializes in treating alcohol abuse, opioid addiction, dual diagnosis, eating disorders, and other substance use disorders.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Opioid addiction is known as a high-risk factor for future heroin addiction. Opioid withdrawal can be extremely uncomfortable and lead the user to continue to use. It is recommended to receive inpatient treatment and a medically supervised detox, Dimock Community Health Center in Boston, MA offers treatment for opioids.
A dual diagnosis is when someone deals with both alcohol and mental or emotional disorder. Emotional trauma, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression can be part of dual diagnosis therapy. It must happen simultaneously to get care for these conditions to handle any of them effectively.
Levels of Care Offered at Dimock Community Health Center
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Intervention, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Detoxification is a process that allows the patient to stop using opioids without experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms. This can be necessary for those who have been addicted for a long period of time or who are struggling with chronic pain. During this process, addicts will receive medication and psychological support from doctors and other medical professionals until they can control their cravings.
In outpatient programs at Dimock Community Health Center, the Boston resident can live with their family while continuing with their job or studies. Treatment includes educating the patient on drug abuse, medications, and counseling sessions at the individual or group level.
Not everyone who struggles with addiction in Massachusetts is ready to go into a treatment program. For these individuals, intervention services may help. Friends and family of the individual can call and set up an intervention. We have a professional come and lead the discussion.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at Dimock Community Health 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 Dimock Community Health 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 Dimock Community Health 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.
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. Dimock Community Health 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.
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 Dimock Community Health Center in Boston, MA 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.
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Experiential Therapy at Dimock Community Health 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.
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45 Dimock St
Boston, MA 02119
(617) 442-8800
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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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