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Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department

Drug Rehab Center in Carmi, Illinois

  • Opioid Addiction
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Drug Addiction
  • Alcoholism

The Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department in Carmi, Illinois provides comprehensive mental health and substance abuse treatment using evidence-based treatment approaches, offering a wide range of addiction and substance abuse services, family therapy sessions, and relapse prevention services, and is fully licensed and accredited with a dedicated team of professional staff.

About This Illinois Facility

Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department, located in Carmi, Illinois, is an outpatient treatment facility dedicated to providing comprehensive substance abuse and mental health services for adolescents and adults. With a commitment to continuously improving the quality of their care, the department aims to help individuals in need achieve lasting recovery and improved mental well-being.

• Comprehensive services: EPMHD offers a wide range of treatment options, including individual, group, and family counseling, to address the unique needs of each patient.
• Evidence-based approaches: The experienced staff at EPMHD utilizes proven treatment methods to ensure the most effective care for their patients.
• DUI evaluation and risk education: The facility provides specialized services for individuals facing DUI charges, helping them understand the consequences of their actions and develop healthier habits.
• School-based prevention programs: EPMHD actively engages with the community, offering substance abuse prevention programs in schools to promote early intervention and education.

Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department is fully licensed and accredited by the Illinois Department of Health and Human Services and certified by the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. The dedicated team of professionals at EPMHD strives to deliver exceptional, individualized treatment to each patient, ensuring they receive the highest quality of care.

The facility treats a wide range of addictions and mental health disorders, offering services such as medication-assisted treatment, cognitive behavioral therapy, and relapse prevention. EPMHD also provides an intensive outpatient program for addiction treatment and residential services for mental health disorders, making it one of the few facilities in the area to offer such comprehensive care.

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
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Veterans
  • Accreditations

    State License

    SAMHSA

    Conditions and Issues Treated

    Opioid addiction treatment helps people addicted to opioids in Illinois 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 Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department

    This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, Residential, 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 Carmi, Illinois for treatment at Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department 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, Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the Illinois 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.

    Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient’s individual requirements.

    Aftercare comprises services that help recovering addicts readjust to normal day-to-day Illinois 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 Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department‘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 Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department in Carmi, Illinois 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.

    Trauma therapy allows people who struggled with a past trauma to face the situation and learn to overcome the situation. Many people who went through trauma early on, struggle with addiction later in life. By addressing the trauma and moving past the issues, it can help someone attending treatment at Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department in Carmi, IL move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.

    Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a method of individual and/or group counseling in Carmi, Illinois that focuses on acceptance and change. It was developed to advance the idea of balancing opposites. It is a coping method of avoiding black and white approach to situations and problems. DBT can be very effective in developing coping strategies for negative emotions and experiences, and is available for patients at Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department.
    The relationship between the thoughts, feelings, and actions of a patient is explored by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). As an alternative to turning to drugs and alcohol in Carmi, Illinois, it helps to create a balanced response to thoughts and feelings. Effective communication between users and those around them is also encouraged. It is an efficient treatment for individuals suffering from all sorts of addictions, professionally provided by Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department.

    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 Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department in Carmi, IL 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.

    Addiction commonly results in malnutrition, vitamin and mineral deficiencies. This can be reflected in weight loss, hair loss or hair changes, skin irregularities. Eating correctly to replace lost vitamins and minerals while balancing your diet can build confidence. Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department will help you get back on track.

    Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) uses low-dose nicotine drugs to eliminate tobacco addiction from smokers. Without smoking, the treatment at Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department in Carmi, IL brings nicotine into the bloodstream to minimize dependence on the physical habit, while detoxing the body from the attachment. To alleviate withdrawal symptoms, it also helps abusers to adapt to lower doses over time.

    Patient Experience

    Fitness Therapy

    Exercise is an ideal way to improve physical and mental health. To help a body heal from the damage of addiction, those undergoing treatment at Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department in Carmi, IL are advised to engage in fitness therapy. It also increases anxiety and acts as a control that makes patients less likely to use, and ultimately curb physical desires to do so.

    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.
    Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department Location and Directions
    Address Information1705 College Ave
    Carmi, Illinois 62821 Phone Number(618) 382-7311 Meta DetailsUpdated April 15, 2024
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    Carmi, Illinois Addiction Information

    In 2016, more than 2,350 Illinoisans died from drug overdoses. More than 5,500 deaths annually occur in Illinois due to the abuse of alcohol and other drugs. 7.17% of Illinois residents reported using illicit drugs in the past month (2018). Substance abuse costs the state approximately $3.5 billion every year.

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