Port Health Services - Elizabeth City
Drug Rehab Center in Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Port Health Services - Elizabeth City is an Addiction Treatment Facility accredited by both CARF and SAMHSA which offers personalized drug rehab services ranging from detoxification to intensive outpatient and partial-hospitalization levels of care, and accepts private health insurance.
About This North Carolina Facility
Port Health Services, located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, is dedicated to improving the lives and well-being of individuals and families affected by substance use and mental health disorders. This facility provides a comprehensive range of services that treat the whole person and empower patients to find their way forward.
Port Health Services embodies values that guide their philosophy of care, supporting individuals on their journey to recovery. As a Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency licensed by the State of North Carolina, this private, nonprofit organization offers services and support for residents seeking assistance with mental health, substance abuse, and intellectual/developmental disability issues.
Accredited by CARF and SAMHSA, Port Health Services - Elizabeth City meets the highest standards of quality and effectiveness in addiction treatment. They specialize in providing evidence-based therapies and interventions for individuals struggling with alcoholism, opioid addiction, substance abuse, dual diagnosis, drug addiction, and mental health disorders. Their comprehensive approach includes detoxification services, outpatient programs, intensive outpatient treatment, partial-hospitalization, and aftercare support.
- Personalized treatment plans tailored to individual needs
- Dual-diagnosis treatment for co-occurring mental health disorders
- Structured intensive outpatient and partial-hospitalization programs
- Supportive aftercare services to promote long-term recovery
Port Health Services - Elizabeth City focuses on addressing various substance addictions, including alcohol, opioids, and other drugs. Their experienced staff provides comprehensive care to help individuals overcome their addiction and achieve lasting recovery.
For individuals struggling with opioid addiction, Port Health Services - Elizabeth City offers a comprehensive treatment approach. They provide safe detoxification services to manage withdrawal symptoms, followed by evidence-based therapies and counseling to address the underlying causes of addiction. The facility's intensive outpatient and partial-hospitalization programs offer a structured and supportive environment for individuals to continue their treatment while maintaining daily responsibilities.
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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
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 Elizabeth City, NC, 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 Port Health Services - Elizabeth City are here to help.
Opioid addiction treatment helps people addicted to opioids in North Carolina 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 Port Health Services - Elizabeth City is essential to understand the addiction better.
Levels of Care Offered at Port Health Services - Elizabeth City
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, Partial-Hospitalization, 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.
To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, Port Health Services - Elizabeth City offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the North Carolina 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.
A partial hospitalization program is set up to cover those struggling with acute symptoms of addiction. This means that the individual is cared for in a hospital-like environment in Elizabeth City, NC during the struggle of those symptoms, but allowed to go home at night. Most PHPs require approximately six-hours of therapy, at least three days per week.
Aftercare comprises services that help recovering addicts readjust to normal day-to-day North Carolina 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 Port Health Services - Elizabeth City‘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.
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 Port Health Services - Elizabeth City in Elizabeth City, NC move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.
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 Port Health Services - Elizabeth City that lets someone recovering work through issues on their own, knowing they have the support of people around them if they need it.
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 Port Health Services - Elizabeth City in Elizabeth City, NC 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 Port Health Services - Elizabeth City 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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1141 N Road St
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
(252) 335-0803
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Elizabeth City, North Carolina Addiction Information
North Carolina ranks 29th in the nation for overall substance abuse. Many of the drugs abused in the state are illicit, and many of these are opioids. Prescription opioids are readily available due to the high rates of medical workers prescribing them. The number of prescriptions has increased tenfold since the 1980's. Opioid overdoses are the most common type of death in North Carolina.
In 2016, 6.2% of the population in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, reported past-month use of an illicit drug. The most commonly used drugs are Prescription opioids (morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone), Heroin, Cocaine, Marijuana, and Methamphetamine. However, any drug can be addictive and lead to abuse. The best way to find the best drug treatment facility in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, is to ask for referrals from friends or family members.
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