San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street
Drug Rehab Center in San Diego, California
The San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street is a highly accredited addiction treatment facility in San Diego, CA that offers a variety of treatments and is accepted by most private health insurance carriers.
About This San Diego, CA Facility
San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street is a reputable addiction treatment facility located in San Diego, California. Founded in 1887, the center specializes in providing support and treatment for individuals struggling with alcoholism, opioid addiction, dual diagnosis, and drug addiction. The facility offers a range of levels of care including inpatient and outpatient treatment options. San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), ensuring that they meet rigorous standards for quality and safety. They accept private health insurance and are affiliated with the renowned San Diego Center for Children, further emphasizing their commitment to delivering comprehensive and effective addiction treatment.
San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street is dedicated to addressing addiction and substance abuse through a variety of services. Their focus is on providing drug rehab and dual-diagnosis treatment, acknowledging the complexity of co-occurring mental health disorders alongside addiction. Their inpatient and outpatient programs cater to individuals with different needs, offering a personalized approach to recovery. Whether it is alcoholism, opioid addiction, or drug addiction, San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street aims to support individuals throughout their journey towards sobriety while providing a safe and nurturing environment for healing and growth.
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Opioid addiction is one of California‘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. San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street 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 Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
When a patient checks into San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street, inpatient care takes place. Patients undergo treatment that requires detoxification and counseling round the clock. While outpatient treatments are available, as the first phase in recovery, inpatient care is suggested. Intensive and thorough rehabilitation sets patients on the road to a drug-free life.
In outpatient programs at San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street, the San Diego 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.
San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street‘s Therapies & Programs
Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street. This builds a personal and trusting relationship so you can truly be yourself and express any emotions as you feel them. Individual therapy leads to greater peace and understanding about your triggers for addiction and coping strategies to prevent relapse.
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 San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street in San Diego, California, 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.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 San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street in San Diego, CA 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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street 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
Nutrition therapy, which is also known as Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) involves providing healthy diet and improving the eating habits of the patient. Expert dieticians provide individualized meal plan, that addresses the specific nutritional deficiencies and the nutritional impact associated with the medicines that are given as a part of the treatment. It helps to overcome the food cravings that are seen in certain addictions and also addresses the co-occurring conditions such as eating disorders.
Nutrition therapy is very important to support the different therapies provided as a part of comprehensive care. Nutrition therapy also teaches the associated life skills such as cooking healthy food and grocery shopping.
Nicotine replacement is a way to move towards stopping smoking or using any form of nicotine. This can be nicotine gum or nicotine patches. The process of working with trained staff at San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street in setting a goal quit date, using nicotine replacement and gradually decreasing nicotine intake is proven to help.
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Experiential Therapy at San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street
Experiential therapy at San Diego Center for Children - Armstrong Street includes helping people work through emotional disorders by participating in events in real-time. It moves away from conventional talk therapy to discuss their concerns and emotions by making patients play roles or use props. It allows people to handle trauma and feelings healthily, reducing the need to resort to alcohol and substances in San Diego, CA.
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San Diego, California 92111 Phone Number(858) 277-9550 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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3002 Armstrong St
San Diego, CA 92111
(858) 277-9550
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San Diego, California Addiction Information
More than 3 million of California's citizens are addicted to illegal drugs. Almost 800,000 people use hard drugs, almost 5 million use marijuana, and another 2.1 million abuse alcohol every year. Other substance abuse issues such as binge drinking and teen drug use are also common. Many illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana are smuggled into the state from Mexico.
Nearly 2,000 people die from a drug overdose each year in San Diego. Of the total population of San Diego, approximately 9.5% reported illicit drug use. According to recent statistics, drug addiction and abuse are among the top causes of preventable death in San Diego. There are rehab programs specifically tailored to meet the needs of women, men, young adults, or those with co-occurring mental health disorders.
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