Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha
Drug Rehab Center in Waukesha, Wisconsin
Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha in Waukesha, Wisconsin is a treatment facility that provides compassionate care for individuals suffering from alcoholism, opioid addiction, substance abuse, dual diagnosis, and drug addiction offering a range of services catered to different needs, including aftercare support, and specializing in dual diagnosis cases with tailored treatment plans.
About This Wisconsin Facility
Lutheran Social Services - Genesis House, located in Waukesha, Wisconsin, provides compassionate residential treatment for men overcoming substance use disorders. This transitional facility offers a supportive, home-like environment to aid in the recovery process.
For over a century, Lutheran Social Services has removed barriers to recovery through their programming. Genesis House continues this mission, identifying a need for affordable medically monitored treatment services in the community.
Accredited by CARF and state-licensed, Genesis House offers evidence-based treatment methods across multiple levels of care. Their comprehensive approach addresses addiction alongside any co-occurring mental health concerns through individualized treatment plans.
- Residential transitional living for men in recovery
- Structured programming in a home-like setting
- Affordable medically monitored treatment services
- Dual diagnosis support for co-occurring disorders
Genesis House specializes in treating alcoholism, opioid addiction, substance abuse, and drug addiction. Their programming guides residents towards achieving lasting sobriety from substances like alcohol, opioids, and other drugs.
For someone battling an opioid use disorder, Genesis House could provide the structured living environment and clinical care needed to regain control. Through their residential services, they create an individualized treatment plan to address the addiction alongside any mental health needs, supporting long-term recovery.
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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 Waukesha, WI, 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 Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha are here to help.
Opioid addiction treatment helps people addicted to opioids in Wisconsin 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 Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha is essential to understand the addiction better.
Levels of Care Offered at Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha
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 programs are intensive regimes that require individuals suffering from serious addictions to admit themselves into a controlled environment. Inpatient programs in Wisconsin generally span over 28 days to six months. The first step in an inpatient program is medically assisted detox. Doctors and addiction specialists at Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha 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.
Sober living houses like Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha in Waukesha help the patient move from a structured recovery facility to an everyday life smoothly. They are also known as homes for recuperation or half-way houses. SLH offers the value of living with a peer group with similar experiences and is recovering collectively, instead of individualized or alone.
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 Wisconsin 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 Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha‘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 Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha in Waukesha, WI 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 Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha in Waukesha, WI 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.
Contingency management is a way to help motivate someone to remain substance free. It is a process Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha 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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Creative Arts
Creative Arts Therapy, an umbrella term that includes a variety of structured and unstructured therapies, can help addicts in many ways. For example, many addicts have short attention spans and have difficulty focusing on tasks. Creative arts therapy promotes changes in brain function to increase memory and the ability to focus, thus creating a solid foundation for addiction recovery.
Creative arts therapy uses painting, music and poetry to release negative feelings. It is also an effective method of dealing with anxiety and accessing emotions. Integrating feelings and thoughts together is the goal for a more balanced approach to life.
Experiential Therapy at Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha
This is a type of therapy that involves activity to recreate situations that may have caused trauma or negative emotions. Experiential therapy at Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha in Waukesha, WI 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 Lutheran Social Services - Waukesha in Waukesha, WI 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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1002 Motor Ave
Waukesha, WI 53188
(262) 544-0711
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Waukesha, Wisconsin Addiction Information
Wisconsin has some of the highest rates in the United States for both adolescent and adult substance abuse. Since 2009, the state has been experiencing the same escalating rates of drug abuse and addiction as the rest of the country. The major concerns are the misuse of prescription painkillers and the escalating number of deaths due to alcohol-related liver disease.
The drug addiction problem in Waukesha, Wisconsin, is fairly bad. Around 9.4% of people in Waukesha, WI, abuse drugs, and around 5.6% abuse alcohol. Drug addiction can lead to criminal activity, job loss, financial instability, and social isolation. The most common types of treatment available in Waukesha, Wisconsin, are inpatient, outpatient, and residential.
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