Good Friends
Drug Rehab Center in Morrisville, Pennsylvania
Good Friends is a SAMHSA accredited 25 bed addiction treatment facility located in Morrisville, PA that provides various evidence-based therapies and aftercare services to help individuals with alcohol, opioid addiction, mental health issues, dual diagnosis, and substance abuse achieve longterm recovery.
About This Pennsylvania Facility
Good Friends, Inc. in Morrisville, PA offers comprehensive treatment services for adult males struggling with chemical dependency. Their mission is to promote physical, spiritual, and emotional healing through quality behavioral health services.
The facility provides a continuum of care, including a halfway house setting where men can safely recover. Services encompass individual and group therapy, life skills training, and other supportive programs.
Accredited by SAMHSA, Good Friends offers evidence-based treatment methods across various levels of care. These include inpatient services, dual-diagnosis treatment for co-occurring disorders, residential programming, sober living, and aftercare support.
- Individualized therapy sessions
- Group counseling in small settings
- Peer support groups
- Educational workshops on relapse prevention
Good Friends specializes in treating alcoholism, opioid addiction, substance abuse disorders, and co-occurring mental health conditions. Their tailored approach addresses each client's unique needs and challenges.
For individuals seeking recovery from drug or alcohol addiction, Good Friends provides a structured environment and comprehensive services. Through their residential program, clients can receive intensive care, counseling, and support to overcome substance abuse and regain their overall well-being.
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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 Morrisville, PA, 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 Good Friends are here to help.
Opioids are a set of drugs prescribed for pain relief. Health care providers prescribe opioids for relief of severe pain after major surgeries and in conditions like cancer. Oxycodone, fentanyl, oxymorphone, hydrocodone, codeine, and morphine are some of the commonly prescribed opioids. They also include illegal drugs of abuse like heroin. Opioid addiction refers to the compulsive seeking of opioids, even when they are not required medically.
Opioid addiction treatment involves medication-assisted therapy (MAT) in which medicines, counseling, and behavioral therapies are all employed. Opioid addiction treatment is a comprehensive approach at Good Friends in Morrisville, PA that boosts the treatment success rate and provides sustained recovery.
Mental illness includes conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. It can also happen that mental illness causes drug addiction and vice versa. Good Friends in Pennsylvania knows it is vital to diagnose dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder.
Levels of Care Offered at Good Friends
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Residential, Sober-Living / Half-Way, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Inpatient treatment involves staying in the hospital or facility while treating all facets of addiction or co-occurring illness. This helps to minimize distractions and increase the emphasis on rehabilitation. Typical stays for inpatient rehabilitation in Morrisville, PA are about a month long.
Sober living houses in Pennsylvania help the patient to smoothly transition from a formal treatment program to a normal life. They are also known as recovery residences or half-way houses. SLH like Good Friends provide the advantage of residing with a peer-group who had similar experiences.
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.
Treatment is just a first step in sustaining sobriety. After rehabilitation, counseling for aftercare helps the person adapt to a life without drugs. A sober living facility in Morrisville, job therapy, or educational assistance may be included in this service, managed by Good Friends. This is when a preventive strategy for relapse starts to take shape.
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 Good Friends‘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 Good Friends in Morrisville, PA move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.
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 Good Friends in Morrisville, PA 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. Good Friends 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 Good Friends in Morrisville, PA 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 Good Friends 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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Experiential Therapy at Good Friends
This is a type of therapy that involves activity to recreate situations that may have caused trauma or negative emotions. Experiential therapy at Good Friends in Morrisville, PA can involve acting, props, arts and crafts, animal care or other tools that may be effective.
This therapy is done on an individual basis and can help revisit and heal from past traumas. Trust between the therapist and individual is important for success. Experiential therapy can help you more closely become you and move through life in a positive and authentic manner.
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 Good Friends in Morrisville, PA 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.
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Morrisville, Pennsylvania 19067 Phone Number(215) 736-2861 Meta DetailsUpdated April 15, 2024
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868 W Bridge St
Morrisville, PA 19067
(215) 736-2861
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Morrisville, Pennsylvania Addiction Information
Pennsylvania ranks 14th in the nation for drug-related deaths. More than 10% of all deaths in Pennsylvania have been related to drugs and alcohol. 30% of Pennsylvania youth reportedly drink alcohol monthly, with more than 20,000 teenagers having an alcohol problem. The rate of opioid misuse in Pennsylvania is double the national average.
The leading cause of accidental death in Morrisville, PA is drug overdoses. The majority of those arrested for drug offenses were between the ages of 18 and 24. Factors that contribute to drug addiction include poverty, unemployment, and lack of educational opportunities. Drugs such as marijuana cocaine, heroin, and meth are readily available in the city. It's important to get help as soon as possible. There are many resources available in Morrisville.
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