Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic
Drug Rehab Center in Fall River, Massachusetts
Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic is a SAMHSA-accredited and state-licensed health center that provides evidence-based treatment for drug and alcohol addiction, offering a range of levels of care, including dual-diagnosis, outpatient, and aftercare support, and accepting private health insurance for payment options.
About This Fall River, MA Facility
Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic is an alcoholism, dual diagnosis, opioid addiction, substance abuse, and drug addiction treatment facility located in Fall River, Massachusetts. This facility is accredited by SAMHSA and holds a state license, ensuring that they meet the highest standards of quality and care. Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic offers a range of services to individuals suffering from addiction, including aftercare support, drug rehab, and dual-diagnosis treatment. They provide outpatient levels of care, allowing individuals to receive treatment while still maintaining their daily lives and responsibilities. Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic accepts private health insurance, making their services more accessible to a wider range of individuals. They are affiliated with Steppingstone, a reputable organization known for their commitment to providing effective and compassionate addiction treatment.
Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic provides comprehensive services for individuals struggling with addiction and substance abuse. Their offerings include aftercare support, helping individuals transition back into their daily lives after completing treatment. They also provide drug rehab services, assisting individuals in overcoming their addiction and building a healthier, drug-free lifestyle. Additionally, Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic offers dual-diagnosis treatment, addressing both addiction and mental health issues simultaneously for more effective and holistic care. Their outpatient levels of care allow individuals to receive treatment while still attending to their personal and professional responsibilities. By accepting private health insurance, Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic strives to make their services more accessible to those seeking help for addiction and substance abuse.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance abuse refers to the intensive and inappropriate use of psychoactive substances. Psychoactive substances are those that affect brain function. These include illegal drugs, alcohol, and even the excessive use of prescription drugs. The overuse of psychoactive substances leads to severe physical or psychological dependence. It also affects the social life and relationships of the affected individual. Substance abuse is treatable.
The duration of treatment at Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic in Fall River can require weeks or even months depending on the severity of the condition as there is a risk of relapse. Treatment options include medications, counseling sessions, various types of behavioral therapy, and group therapy in different combinations.
Addiction to prescription opioid painkillers like oxycodone and hydrocodone, and illicit opioids such as heroin, leads to potentially life-threatening withdrawal symptoms when discontinued. Opioid addiction treatment typically involves an inpatient stay at facilities like Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic to make sure they get through withdrawal safely. Treatment also includes comprehensive mental health counseling.
Mental illness includes conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. It can also happen that mental illness causes drug addiction and vice versa. Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic in Massachusetts knows it is vital to diagnose dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder.
Levels of Care Offered
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic 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.
Treatment is just a first step in sustaining sobriety. After rehabilitation, counseling for aftercare helps the person adapt to a life without drugs. A sober living facility in Fall River, job therapy, or educational assistance may be included in this service, managed by Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic. This is when a preventive strategy for relapse starts to take shape.
Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic‘s Therapies & Programs
In addiction recovery at Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic, therapy plays a significant role. This helps patients get to the root of their addiction and discover how the problems that contributed to their use can be handled better. Therapy can be performed in a group and one on one settings. The patient interacts with the therapist in a one-on-one atmosphere during individual therapy. This encourages them to reflect on the underlying addiction problems and develop ways to avoid potential future abuse.
Recovering from addiction involves recovering relationships as well. One of the most common areas of stress and damage during addiction is in intimate relationships. Couples therapy at Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic can rebuild trust and joy that may have been damaged. Addiction involves everyone in the family, not only the addict.
Family roles can change in damaging ways that may require professional help to rebalance. Successful intimate relationships can decrease the chances for relapse by ensuring a healthy environment after rehab in Fall River, MA.
Addiction and alcoholism affect the entire family. For this reason, family therapy is vital to a person’s recovery from addiction. In contrast to couples counseling, family therapy at Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic may include siblings, children, parents, and other significant people in the recovering person’s life. Family support is one of the most important pillars of recovery.
Many people turn to drugs and alcohol as a way of processing trauma that has affected them in the past. Trauma can include abuse, neglect, the loss of a loved one and other unpleasant incidents. Trauma therapy at Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic helps patients process trauma. It gives them the tools to deal with it in a healthier manner.
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that focuses on eliminating specific negative thoughts such as suicidal thoughts that can potentially lead to an individual inflicting self-harm. It is useful in the treatment of patients exhibiting uncontrollable emotions, intense mood swings, and borderline personality disorders.
The term “Dialectic” means the integration of opposites. In the substance abuse context, DBT refers to accepting the patient’s addiction and working to change their thoughts and behavior. It improves life skills such as controlling the intense emotions without reacting impulsively, resolving the interpersonal conflicts effectively, and promoting awareness about self and others.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines the relationship between a patient’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Steppingstone - Outpatient Clinic aims to establish a healthy response to thoughts and feelings as an alternative to turning to drugs and alcohol. It also promotes healthy communication between addicts and those around them. It is and effective therapy for people suffering with all types of addictions.
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Fall River, Massachusetts 02720 Phone Number(508) 679-0033 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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Fall River, 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.
Fall River, Massachusetts, ranks in the top 5% of cities in the United States for drug abuse rates. In 2016, there were a total of 354 drug-related arrests in the city. Fall River's most commonly abused drugs are heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. In Fall River, Massachusetts, you can ask your doctor for a referral or look for reviews of drug treatment facilities.
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