Miners Medical - Ashley
Drug Rehab Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Miner's Medical is an accredited facility in Pennsylvania that provides comprehensive, high-quality care for those in need of detox and/or inpatient treatment, as well as ongoing aftercare support, and accepts most major private health insurance plans.
About This Pennsylvania Facility
Miners Medical - Ashley, located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, specializes in outpatient treatment for individuals struggling with opioid addiction. Their comprehensive approach focuses on medication-assisted treatment combined with therapy and counseling.
- Individualized treatment plans tailored to each patient's needs
- Medication options including methadone, Suboxone, and Vivitrol
- Therapy services like CBT, MI, relapse prevention, and anger management
Accredited by CARF and SAMHSA, Miners Medical - Ashley provides high-quality, evidence-based care. Their mission emphasizes helping those addicted to prescription painkillers, heroin, and other opiates through outpatient programs and support services.
Miners Medical - Ashley treats opioid use disorders, offering General Outpatient Treatment and Office-Based Opiate Treatment. In addition to medication-assisted treatment, they provide individual, family, and group therapy, as well as medication management and specialized therapies like grief counseling.
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The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.
Conditions and Issues Treated
The inappropriate use of any drug in Wilkes-Barre, PA is substance abuse. This involves alcohol, medications, and illicit drugs. With a combination of physical and psychiatric therapies, drug addiction is successfully treated at Miners Medical - Ashley. After Detox is complete, individuals follow-up with treatments treating the root cause of the addiction.
Opioid addiction is known as a high-risk factor for future heroin addiction. Opioid withdrawal can be extremely uncomfortable and lead the user to continue to use. It is recommended to receive inpatient treatment and a medically supervised detox, Miners Medical - Ashley in Wilkes-Barre, PA offers treatment for opioids.
A dual diagnosis is when someone deals with both alcohol and mental or emotional disorder. Emotional trauma, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression can be part of dual diagnosis therapy. It must happen simultaneously to get care for these conditions to handle any of them effectively.
Levels of Care Offered at Miners Medical - Ashley
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.
Detoxification is a process that allows the patient to stop using opioids without experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms. This can be necessary for those who have been addicted for a long period of time or who are struggling with chronic pain. During this process, addicts will receive medication and psychological support from doctors and other medical professionals until they can control their cravings.
In outpatient programs at Miners Medical - Ashley, the Wilkes-Barre resident can live with their family while continuing with their job or studies. Treatment includes educating the patient on drug abuse, medications, and counseling sessions at the individual or group level.
Treatment is just the first step to maintaining sobriety. After treatment, aftercare support at Miners Medical - Ashley helps the individual adjust to a life without substances. This support may involve a sober living home in or near Wilkes-Barre, PA, career counseling, or educational assistance. This is when a relapse prevention plan begins to take shape.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at Miners Medical - Ashley. 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.
Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Miners Medical - Ashley 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.
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.
A 12-Step Program is a common method that is used to treat addiction. This format is used for both drug and alcohol treatment. It is extremely popular and successful for large numbers of people and the staff at Miners Medical - Ashley are trained to assist in 12-step management.
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 Miners Medical - Ashley in Wilkes-Barre, PA 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.
Patient Experience
Creative Arts
It is believed that enhancing creativity and developing skills related to it can help people with addiction recover faster. Activities such as painting, writing, acting, and dancing are considered therapeutic and hosted and managed by Miners Medical - Ashley in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. They become outlets for patients to blow off steam, channel their emotions, and express their thoughts.Experiential Therapy at Miners Medical - Ashley
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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43 S Main St
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18706
(570) 822-5145
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Wilkes-Barre, 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.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, has a moderate drug addiction and abuse problem. About 18.7% of people in Wilkes-Barre have abused drugs in the past year, and 9.8% have abused alcohol. In 2015, 6.8% of high school students in Wilkes-Barre reported using illicit drugs in the past month, and 22.6% reported binge drinking alcohol. There are various treatment options available in Wilkes-Barre. Some of the most common treatment types include inpatient, outpatient, and residential treatment.
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