Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC
Drug Rehab Center in Mount Vernon, Illinois
Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC is a comprehensive healthcare clinic and treatment facility that specializes in addiction and substance abuse services for veterans, offering evidence-based treatment, counseling, and relapse prevention, as well as a wide range of treatment methods tailored to meet individual needs.
About This Illinois Facility
Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC is a comprehensive health care clinic and treatment facility located in Mount Vernon, Illinois. This Veteran's Administration Medical Center (VAMC) provides a wide variety of specialized services to veterans, such as primary and specialty care, mental health services, tele-health, and more. The Mount Vernon CBOC specifically focuses on providing an array of addiction and substance abuse services to veterans, including evidence-based treatment, counseling, and relapse prevention. These services are available both in-house and through referral to other accredited facilities.
Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC offers a wide range of treatment methods for addiction and substance abuse, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing (MI), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), individual and group counseling, peer support services, medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid addiction, and more. These services are tailored to meet the individual needs of each veteran and can be provided both on-site and through referral to other providers.
In addition to their comprehensive addiction treatment services, Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC is accredited by the Joint Commission, licensed by the Illinois Department of Human Services, and holds both CARF and CARA certification. These accreditations and certifications establish Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC as a high-quality provider of exceptional care that is held to the highest standards of excellence and safety.
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This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Outpatient, Residential, with additional therapies available as listed below.
An inpatient is a person who stays in a hospital or rehab center during treatment. For alcohol- and drug-dependent individuals, inpatient rehabs provide individualized around-the-clock services. Inpatient treatment programs address a person’s unique physical, medical, and psychological needs. A team of experts assess the severity of the addiction and design a highly tailored program. typically, the length of stay in an inpatient facility in Mount Vernon, IL is 30 days. Those with severe addiction may need to stay at the facility for 60 to 90 days.
Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC 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 Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC in recovering from addiction.
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 for substance abuse does not cease after an individual successfully completes a detox or rehabilitation program. A vital follow-up treatment service is aftercare support provided to individuals at Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC in Illinois after they attain initial sobriety.
Aftercare support often takes the following forms: 12-Step Programs, Outpatient Treatment Programs, and Support Groups. The most effective aftercare programs are tailored to meet an individual’s specific needs and circumstances.
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Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC. Individual therapy provides patients with a safe environment where they can openly discuss their problems with the therapist. The patients find the therapist as a person who they can trust. It helps them to open up and discuss personal and sensitive issues, which they may not be comfortable discussing in a group setting.
Individual therapy aims to identify the core issues that would have led the patient to substance abuse and address the root cause effectively. The therapist can develop patient-specific customized solutions through individual therapy, which aids speedier recovery.
Addiction and alcoholism always harm an addict’s relationships with others and none more than relationships with a spouse or partner. Couples therapy is an essential part of restoring trust and good communication to intimate relationships harmed by addiction. Couples therapy by Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC helps repair the damage done to these important relationships.
Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC brings in the addict’s family to explore genetic factors. It gives loved ones the tools for dealing with addiction and its underlying mental issues. It is a recommended step in helping addicts adapt to sober living.
Trauma is one of the most common causes of psychological disorders. It’s often found in people with addiction diagnoses. Trauma therapy addresses this by examining the emotions and thoughts people have formed due to past traumas. Traumas are complex but trauma therapy can reduce their ability to contribute to addictive behaviors.
Rehabilitation is not just limited to bringing an individual out of addiction and achieving sobriety. It is considered complete only when an individual starts leading a normal and balanced life. Life skill therapy focuses on the various skills that helps an individual to lead a normal life. Patients often do not take care of themselves, struggle professionally and withdraw from social interaction due to the physical and emotional disturbances caused by addiction.
Life skills therapy helps them to improve various personal, professional and social skills such as cooking healthy meals, maintaining proper hygiene, budgeting, decision making, time management, regulation of emotions and resolving the interpersonal conflicts effectively.
The right diet can improve a person’s general outlook, sleep habits and thought processing skills. MNT also lowers the occurrence of chronic diseases such as adult-onset diabetes. Dieticians like those at Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC in Mount Vernon, IL believe that nutrition therapy is the key to making significant lifestyle changes.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) uses low dose nicotine products to ween smokers away from cigarettes. The products get nicotine into the bloodstream without smoking reducing addiction to the physical habit. It also allows addicts to adjust to lower doses to reduce withdrawal symptoms.
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Experiential Therapy at Marion VAMC - Mount Vernon CBOC
Experiential therapy involves recreating or creating new experiences for the patient. Many people struggled with past issues such as memories or trauma. By creating a new experience, it allows people to work through the issues associated with those moments in a new experience. This can give them a new measure of control and can help them role play a new scenario. That can help push addiction into their past and help them begin the healing process.
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4105 N Water Tower Pl
Mount Vernon, IL 62864
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Mount Vernon, 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.
More than 5,000 people are addicted to drugs in Mount Vernon, IL. This amounts to 9.8% of the population. In Mount Vernon, IL, there were 958 drug-related arrests in 2016. Of those arrested for drug crimes, 83% were male and 17% female. It's important to get help for drug addiction and abuse if you or someone you know is struggling with these problems.
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