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Multicultural Wellness Center

Drug Rehab Center in Worcester, Massachusetts

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

The Multicultural Wellness Center in Worcester, MA offers a range of services for individuals struggling with substance abuse and dual-diagnosis issues utilizing various approaches and accepting private health insurance, with a goal of achieving well-being through holistic diversity-competent counseling and community resources.

About This Massachusetts Facility

The Multicultural Wellness Center in Worcester, Massachusetts provides holistic and comprehensive support for individuals with substance use and mental health challenges. Specializing in treating alcoholism, opioid addiction, substance abuse, dual diagnosis, and drug addiction, the Center offers a range of treatments and methods to provide the most effective care. Individuals can access aftercare support, detox, drug rehab, and dual-diagnosis both in an intensive outpatient or outpatient setting.

Their programs are tailored to the client’s individual needs and the recovery process is guided by their team of dedicated and experienced therapists. Services include 12-step facilitation, couples therapy, anger management, contingency management/motivational incentives, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), individual and family therapy, trauma therapy and discharge planning. In addition, Multicultural Wellness Center accepts private health insurance. These therapeutic approaches help individuals understand their substance use and mental health disorder and develop the necessary coping skills needed to manage triggers and remain sober. With their specialized care and attentive approach, they provide the necessary support to promote sobriety and improved quality of life.

Genders
  • Male
  • Female
  • Gender Exclusive Center
  • Ages
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Seniors (65+)
  • Modality
  • Individuals
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Groups
  • Additional
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Hearing Impaired
  • Veteran Specific
  • Additional Languages
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Hearing-Impaired
  • Veterans
  • 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 Worcester, MA, 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 Multicultural Wellness Center are here to help.

    Opioid addiction treatment helps people addicted to opioids in Massachusetts 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 Multicultural Wellness Center is essential to understand the addiction better.

    Levels of Care Offered at Multicultural Wellness Center

    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 is a drug rehab process that begins before the actual drug rehab treatment. It is used to remove any residual toxins left in your body (and brain) after using drugs, and it is used with the intent to help you or your loved one complete drug rehab.

    If you are addicted to opiates like heroin, methadone, or prescription painkillers, you will detox with medication. This is because the withdrawal symptoms are often more intense and uncomfortable for an opiate addict than for someone who has abused or is dependent on other drugs, like cocaine.

    An intensive outpatient treatment program is set up for those struggling with an addiction to begin the recovery process. Patients come to Worcester, Massachusetts for treatment at Multicultural Wellness Center for therapy, support, programs, and medical supervision. Intensive outpatient treatment is often very tightly scheduled and heavily structured.

    To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, Multicultural Wellness Center offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the Massachusetts patient will go to the treatment center, yet return home every night. After most of the program is completed, the level of mandatory participation reduces.

    Aftercare comprises services that help recovering addicts readjust to normal day-to-day Massachusetts 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 Multicultural Wellness Center‘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.

    Attending group therapy at Multicultural Wellness Center in Worcester, Massachusetts allows those seeking sobriety to realize they are not alone in their battles. This is when a group of people all in different phases of recovery get together and speak about their battles. They talk about their triggers, their successes, their failures, and the things they can do to get on and stay on a sober path. These sessions also teach life skills, communication, healthy habits, and can include alternative types of therapy.

    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 Multicultural Wellness Center in Worcester, MA move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.

    Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a method of individual and/or group counseling in Worcester, Massachusetts that focuses on acceptance and change. It was developed to advance the idea of balancing opposites. It is a coping method of avoiding black and white approach to situations and problems. DBT can be very effective in developing coping strategies for negative emotions and experiences, and is available for patients at Multicultural Wellness Center.
    The relationship between the thoughts, feelings, and actions of a patient is explored by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). As an alternative to turning to drugs and alcohol in Worcester, Massachusetts, it helps to create a balanced response to thoughts and feelings. Effective communication between users and those around them is also encouraged. It is an efficient treatment for individuals suffering from all sorts of addictions, professionally provided by Multicultural Wellness Center.

    REBT stands for rational emotional behavior therapy. This is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, that combines images with thoughts and behaviors. It allows for deeper education and understanding of what one can do to help themselves with recovery. It is a deep sense of self-help education managed by Multicultural Wellness Center that lets someone recovering work through issues on their own, knowing they have the support of people around them if they need it.

    Entering a 12-step program allows people to accept that they struggle with an addiction on their own terms. It breaks down the process into 12-steps that recovering patients can advance as they feel strong enough to do so. This is common in programs like NA and AA, and gives the patient at Multicultural Wellness Center in Worcester, Massachusetts the ability to self-help and move forward towards sobriety without feeling rushed.

    Contingency management is a way to help motivate someone to remain substance free. It is a process Multicultural Wellness Center uses which involves rewarding positive choices and good outcomes. As humans we are wired to recreate experiences that lead to positive feelings.

    Payment Options Accepted

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

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    Multicultural Wellness Center Location and Directions
    Address Information250 Commercial St
    Worcester, Massachusetts 01608 Phone Number(508) 752-4665 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Worcester, Massachusetts Addiction Information

    Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of drug abuse in the country. More than half a million Massachusetts residents abuse alcohol while more than 1.5 million use illegal drugs each year. This drug and alcohol usage is the cause of over 8% of all deaths in the state. In 2017, Massachusetts ranked in the top 10 of the states with the highest opioid overdose rates.

    Every day more than 20 people are abusing drugs or alcohol in Worcester, Massachusetts. 9.7% of people in Worcester abuse drugs. 35.3% of high school students report having drunk alcohol. There were 163 overdose deaths related to drugs in Worcester in 2016. Treatment must be individualized to address the specific needs of the person.

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