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Nicasa - Waukegan

Nicasa - Waukegan

Drug Rehab Center in Highland Park, Illinois

  • Substance Abuse
  • Opioid Addiction
  • Drug Addiction

Nicasa - Waukegan in Highland Park, Illinois, offers comprehensive addiction treatment programs, including aftercare support, drug rehab, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and dual-diagnosis options, all of which are accredited by CARF and aimed at empowering individuals to achieve and maintain sobriety.

About This Highland Park, IL Facility

Nicasa - Waukegan is a reputable addiction treatment facility located in Highland Park, Illinois. This facility specializes in addressing opioid addiction, substance abuse, drug addiction, and alcoholism. Nicasa - Waukegan is dedicated to providing comprehensive and effective treatment options to individuals suffering from these issues. They offer various levels of care including aftercare support, drug rehab, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and dual-diagnosis programs to cater to the unique needs of each patient. It is worth mentioning that Nicasa - Waukegan has obtained accreditation from CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities), which ensures that they meet the highest standards of quality and excellence in addiction treatment.

Nicasa - Waukegan is committed to offering a wide range of services to help individuals overcome addiction and substance abuse. Their dedicated team of professionals provides personalized treatment plans tailored to each individual's specific needs. These services include counseling, therapy, medication-assisted treatment, peer support, and life skills training. Additionally, Nicasa - Waukegan emphasizes the importance of aftercare support, understanding that recovery is a lifelong process. By providing comprehensive care and support, Nicasa - Waukegan aims to empower individuals to achieve and maintain sobriety, leading them towards a healthier and happier 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
  • Multiple Centers
  • Accreditations

    CARF

    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

    Substance abuse is the excessive use of any type of drug. This includes alcohol, medications and illegal drugs. Substance abuse is treated with a combination of physical and mental treatments. Nicasa - Waukegan patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.

    Opioid addiction is one of Illinois‘s most prominent forms of addiction. Drugs, including heroin, oxycontin, and fentanyl, are the most common. To relieve pain, or ease other ailments, they are professionally prescribed, but they are often abused because they and the feelings they give are addictive.

    Addiction is treated by detoxifying the body, so the medications’ chemicals are no longer impacting the individual. Nicasa - Waukegan offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.

    Levels of Care Offered

    This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.

    Intensive outpatient programs mostly conduct meetings on weekdays. Group therapy is the main element in most intensive outpatient programs. Most IOPs last for about 90 days and include drug use monitoring and testing. A Illinois IOP, like what’s offerd at Nicasa - Waukegan, take much more time than a standard outpatient program. Some programs offer other services as well, such as employment assistance and medication management.

    Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Nicasa - Waukegan 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 Nicasa - Waukegan in recovering from addiction.

    Aftercare Support at Nicasa - Waukegan, in short, is the support provided to a patient after they have finished treatment. It allows them to adjust to everyday life. It may entail setting them up and enrolling them in services such as Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) inside a halfway house. Career coaching may also be offered to patients to help them get back into the Illinois workforce.

    Nicasa - Waukegan‘s Therapies & Programs

    Substance abuse does a number on an individual’s relationship with other people, particularly in marriage. Spousal relationships bear the brunt of alcohol and drug dependence. Therefore, it becomes critical to submit the relationship to couples therapy to prevent straining it further. Most programs only zero in on the individual with substance addiction without factoring in the importance of the other half’s emotional support.

    However, some facilities, like Nicasa - Waukegan in Highland Park, Illinois, offer couples therapy options to manage intimate partnerships amid the recovery process. Other couples-focused treatment plans can provide the patient and their partner tools to get things back to normal, support each other, and the patient’s sobriety.
    Addiction is a family disease. Family therapy aims to heal and rebalance unhealthy roles and habits. Healing any family trauma and dysfunctional communications is important, and Nicasa - Waukegan understands this. Family sessions are meant to bring Illinois families closer together and live sober, healthy, lives.

    Group Therapy is a type of counseling that occurs between a bunch of strangers. These groups are suitable for patients who are not confined in a treatment facility, but group sessions are also common in inpatient rehab programs. Group therapy is led by a trained individual at Nicasa - Waukegan in Highland Park, IL and consists of members from different stages of recovery.

    The goal of group therapy sessions is to foster hope and a sense of belonging, share information, and learn coping mechanisms. It also helps to have people who can relate to what you’re going through. Good behaviors can also be contagious, and participants can learn from one another.

    Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed.

    Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) DBT is a treatment of choice for people being treated at Nicasa - Waukegan whom are suffering from self-harming behaviors. Conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder also benefit from DBT.

    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. Nicasa - Waukegan asks people to investigate how their thoughts, including habitual, negative, and inaccurate ways of thinking affect behaviors. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible ways of thinking cause people to have a limited ability to cope with stress

    The 12-step program is a part of substance abuse treatment offered at Nicasa - Waukegan. It was initially developed by the founders of Alcoholics anonymous. The program provides the benefit of cognitive restructuring. It refers to the process of change in the negative thoughts that leads to long-term benefits.

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    Nicasa - Waukegan Location and Directions
    Address Information1724 1st Street
    Highland Park, Illinois 60035 Phone Number(847) 433-1303 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Highland Park, 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.

    Alcohol is involved in nearly half of all fatal accidents in Highland Park, IL. Marijuana often serves as a gateway drug to harder substances. The rates of use of marijuana among high school students increased by 20% between 2018 and 2019. 11.5% of alcoholics in Highland Park also abuse drugs. Common treatments include inpatient and outpatient treatment, 12-step programs, detoxification, and alternative treatment.

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