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Glenwood Life Counseling Center

Glenwood Life Counseling Center

Drug Rehab Center in Baltimore, Maryland

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

Glenwood Life Counseling Center is an addiction treatment facility founded in 1971 that offers a range of services including aftercare support, detox, drug rehab, dual-diagnosis, intensive outpatient and outpatient levels of care along with SAMHSA accreditation and private health insurance acceptance.

About This Baltimore, MD Facility

Glenwood Life Counseling Center, founded in 1971, is an Addiction Treatment Facility located in Baltimore, MD. The center specializes in providing assistance to individuals struggling with alcoholism, opioid addiction, substance abuse, dual diagnosis, and drug addiction. Glenwood offers a range of comprehensive services to address these issues, including Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Intensive Outpatient, and Outpatient levels of care. The facility is accredited by SAMHSA, demonstrating its commitment to providing high-quality addiction treatment services. Glenwood Life Counseling Center also accepts private health insurance, making its services accessible to a wide range of individuals seeking help for addiction and substance abuse.

Glenwood Life Counseling Center is dedicated to addressing addiction and substance abuse through a variety of services. With a focus on individualized care, the facility offers detoxification programs to help individuals safely withdraw from substances. Additionally, they provide drug rehabilitation programs, which offer comprehensive treatment and support to address the underlying causes of addiction. For individuals with dual diagnosis, Glenwood offers specialized services that address both addiction and mental health issues. The center also offers intensive outpatient and outpatient programs, allowing individuals to receive ongoing care and support while maintaining their daily routines. Through their aftercare support, Glenwood Life Counseling Center ensures individuals have the necessary resources and support to maintain their sobriety and continue their recovery journey beyond the treatment program.

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
  • Accreditations

    SAMHSA

    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. Glenwood Life Counseling Center patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.

    Opioid addiction is one of Maryland‘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. Glenwood Life Counseling 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 Baltimore, MD like Glenwood Life Counseling Center provide patients with a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis gives rehab the means to treat addiction while restoring mental and emotional health.

    Alcohol Abuse, Dual Diagnosis (Co-Occuring Disorders), Opioid Addiction, Substance Abuse 

    Levels of Care Offered

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

    Detox treatment begins when the patient leaves their surroundings of family and friends, which is usually when they are most vulnerable. Being in a safe environment surrounded by medical professionals provides them with the safety net many of them need to get over their addiction. With kind and caring staff members, patients can feel relaxed, and they will need to start by admitting that they have a problem in order to get better.

    If a person goes through detox treatment, they will understand their addiction better, and they won’t want to relapse and lose all the benefits of sobriety. They can see the effects of using drugs and how it makes them feel, which will make them want to quit their addiction.

    Drug detox is vital to the recovery process, and it ensures that a patient will be in a safe environment during their withdrawal.

    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 Maryland IOP, like what’s offerd at Glenwood Life Counseling 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 Glenwood Life Counseling 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 Glenwood Life Counseling Center in recovering from addiction.

    Aftercare Support at Glenwood Life Counseling 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 Maryland workforce.

    Glenwood Life Counseling Center‘s Therapies & Programs

    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 Glenwood Life Counseling Center in Baltimore, Maryland, 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 Glenwood Life Counseling Center understands this. Family sessions are meant to bring Maryland 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 Glenwood Life Counseling Center in Baltimore, MD 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 Glenwood Life Counseling 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. Glenwood Life Counseling 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

    Some people refer to contingency management, or CM, as motivational incentives. This type of therapy is a reconditioning of the mind and responses of the body. The point of CM is to help the body understand the proper responses to behaviors should be, as well as the effects that come with both problematic and desired behaviors. The more positive choices a person makes, the more incentives they will receive, all managed with sobriety goals by Glenwood Life Counseling Center in Baltimore, MD.

    Aftercare, Anger Management, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), Contingency management/motivational incentives, Couples Therapy, Detox, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Discharge Planning, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Employment Counseling / Training, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Hepatitis Education / Counseling / Support, HIV or AIDS education, Intensive Outpatient (IOP), Outpatient Treatment (OP), Residential Long Term (>30 Days), Substance Use Counseling, Trauma Therapy

    Payment Options Accepted

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  • Self-Pay / Cash
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Military Insurance
  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
  • Sliding Scale
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    Additional Details

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    Glenwood Life Counseling Center Location and Directions
    Address Information516 Glenwood Ave
    Baltimore, Maryland 21212 Phone Number(410) 323-9811 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Baltimore, Maryland Addiction Information

    For the past decade, Maryland's rate of drug use and abuse has significantly increased. The overdose rate is currently higher than the national average. This epidemic is due to the many industries where manual labor is required. As soon as prescription opioids were more readily accessible a large part of manual workers started using–and eventually abusing–the painkillers.

    According to recent statistics, there are around 33,000 people who are addicted to drugs in Baltimore. Heroin-related overdose deaths are quite high in Baltimore, at 837 per 100,000 residents in 2016. Baltimore's most commonly abused drugs include heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. The people of Baltimore are friendly and welcoming, and there's always something going on. If you're looking for a place to start fresh, Baltimore is the perfect place.

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