St. Leonard’s Ministries - Michael Barlow Center
Drug Rehab Center in Chicago, Illinois
St. Leonard's Ministries - Michael Barlow Center in Chicago, Illinois is a faith-based organization that provides residential housing and an array of services to people seeking a new life free from addiction, including counseling, job skills training, mental health services, grief counseling, parenting classes, and employment assistance programs, with a focus on individual care and long-term recovery.
About This Illinois Facility
St. Leonard’s Ministries - Michael Barlow Center in Chicago, Illinois is a comprehensive addiction treatment facility that offers a variety of services to individuals suffering from drug and alcohol addiction. Their services include residential and outpatient treatment, drug rehab, sober living or half-way housing, and aftercare support. They are dedicated to helping those struggling with opioid addiction, alcoholism, dual-diagnosis, and other forms of substance abuse. St. Leonard's accept private health insurance for those seeking treatment and their expert staff of highly trained counselors and specialists are accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC).
At St. Leonard’s Ministries - Michael Barlow Center, individuals can expect to receive the highest quality care available as they move through each step of the recovery process. Clients are provided with evidence-based recovery strategies and therapeutic activities that are tailored to their individual circumstances. During their customized program, clients will receive 24/7 monitoring, individual and group counseling, relapse prevention, and even career counseling. Additionally, their aftercare programs provide resources to help clients stay on the right path after completing treatment.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
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, St. Leonard’s Ministries - Michael Barlow Center in Chicago, IL offers treatment for opioids.
Levels of Care Offered at St. Leonard’s Ministries - Michael Barlow Center
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Outpatient, Residential, Sober-Living / Half-Way, with additional therapies available as listed below.
In outpatient programs at St. Leonard’s Ministries - Michael Barlow Center, the Chicago 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.
A sober living home in Illinois is really like a halfway house, often referred to as an SLH. It is halfway between a rehab center for drugs or alcohol and living at home. Any specific rules and regulations must be followed by residents, such as attending required meetings and structured daily chores.
Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient’s individual requirements.
Treatment is just the first step to maintaining sobriety. After treatment, aftercare support at St. Leonard’s Ministries - Michael Barlow Center helps the individual adjust to a life without substances. This support may involve a sober living home in or near Chicago, IL, 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 St. Leonard’s Ministries - Michael Barlow Center. 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.
Self-defeating thoughts and habits can limit your possible successes. Some examples of this are procrastination, unhealthy eating and angry outbursts. REBT is a method of specific counseling offered by St. Leonard’s Ministries - Michael Barlow Center that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts.
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.
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 St. Leonard’s Ministries - Michael Barlow Center in Chicago, IL 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.
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Experiential Therapy at St. Leonard’s Ministries - Michael Barlow Center
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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Chicago, Illinois 60612 Phone Number(312) 226-6270 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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2120 W Warren Blvd
Chicago, IL 60612
(312) 226-6270
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Chicago, 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.
Drug misuse can lead to other serious health problems, including HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C infection and liver disease. Chicago's main drugs of abuse include heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. Field sobriety tests can be used to determine if someone is driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. There are about 872 drug treatment centers in the city, and the number of people seeking help for addiction continues to rise.
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