Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment
Drug Rehab Center in Elmhurst, New York
Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment is a comprehensive, accredited addiction treatment facility located in Elmhurst, NY, offering evidence-based treatments for individuals struggling with alcohol and drug addiction as well as mental health and dual diagnosis issues.
About This New York Facility
Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment, located in Elmhurst, NY, is a comprehensive addiction treatment facility specializing in alcoholism, opioid addiction, substance abuse, dual diagnosis, drug addiction, and mental health treatment. Accredited by SAMHSA, JCAHO, and State License, this facility offers a range of services to cater to individuals seeking recovery and support. They provide aftercare support, detoxification services, drug rehab programs, and dual-diagnosis treatment, with both outpatient and inpatient levels of care available. Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment is affiliated with The City of New York and accepts private health insurance, ensuring accessibility to a wide range of individuals in need of their services.
Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment offers a holistic approach to treating addiction and substance abuse. They provide comprehensive aftercare support, ensuring that individuals have the necessary resources and guidance for long-term recovery. Their detoxification programs offer a safe and supportive environment for individuals to withdraw from substances under medical supervision. Additionally, they provide drug rehab programs that encompass various therapeutic modalities to address the underlying causes of addiction. The facility also specializes in dual-diagnosis treatment, aiming to address both addiction and mental health issues simultaneously. With both outpatient and inpatient levels of care available, Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment offers a range of services tailored to meet the unique needs of each individual seeking treatment.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Using both legal medications and illegal substances in order to maintain an addiction is substance abuse. If you are taking more of your prescription, or earlier than the prescribed time interval between doses than is directed you may be abusing that medication. If you are obtaining legal medications illegally in or near Elmhurst, NY, you may be suffering from substance abuse.
Illegal substances can become addictive after a single use and lead rapidly to substance abuse. The professionals at Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment are here to help.
Opioid addiction treatment helps people addicted to opioids in New York 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.
Conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder are part of mental illness. This may occur that opioid abuse and vice versa are induced by mental illness. Diagnosing a concurrent diagnosis or co-occurring condition at Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment is essential to understand the addiction better.
Levels of Care Offered at Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Detox is a drug rehab process that begins before the actual drug rehab treatment. It is used to remove any residual toxins left in your body (and brain) after using drugs, and it is used with the intent to help you or your loved one complete drug rehab.
If you are addicted to opiates like heroin, methadone, or prescription painkillers, you will detox with medication. This is because the withdrawal symptoms are often more intense and uncomfortable for an opiate addict than for someone who has abused or is dependent on other drugs, like cocaine.
Inpatient programs are intensive regimes that require individuals suffering from serious addictions to admit themselves into a controlled environment. Inpatient programs in New York generally span over 28 days to six months. The first step in an inpatient program is medically assisted detox. Doctors and addiction specialists at Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment monitor the individual’s vital signs as the drugs leave their system. Some inpatient rehab programs also provide counseling for family members to provide encouragement and emotional support. In inpatient programs, patients have access to 24-hour medical supervision.
To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the New York 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.
Aftercare comprises services that help recovering addicts readjust to normal day-to-day New York 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 Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment‘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.
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 Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment in Elmhurst, NY move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.
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. Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment 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 Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment in Elmhurst, NY 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.
Contingency management is a way to help motivate someone to remain substance free. It is a process Elmhurst Hospital Center - Opiate Treatment uses which involves rewarding positive choices and good outcomes. As humans we are wired to recreate experiences that lead to positive feelings.
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Elmhurst, New York Addiction Information
More than 2 million New Yorkers are currently suffering from some type of substance abuse and many of those are minors. Alcohol abuse, in particular, is prevalent among those underage. As a result of the high prices and regulation of prescription drugs, many New Yorkers turn to heroin instead. This has led to a serious heroin epidemic in the state.
The Elmhurst Police Department reports more than 1,000 drug-related crimes in 2017. Marijuana was the most commonly seized drug, followed by cocaine, heroin, and prescription drugs. 45% of people who start using drugs before the age of 18 will develop a substance use disorder. As per reports about 16% of all traffic fatalities in Elmhurst in 2018 were alcohol-related. The type of program that's right for you will depend on your needs.
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