Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community
Drug Rehab Center in New Bedford, Massachusetts
Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community offers a comprehensive, evidence-based drug and alcohol addiction recovery program with personalized services, accreditations and state license, and private health insurance plans accepted.
About This Massachusetts Facility
Steppingstone Incorporated in New Bedford, MA stands out as a beacon for women struggling with alcohol or substance addiction. With a 28 bed capacity at their Pleasant Street location, it prioritizes creating a nurturing, sober environment reminiscent of home. This facility is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for its clients and their families through compassion-focused services, aiming to empower patients towards achieving their fullest potential.
Accredited by SAMHSA and holding a State License, Steppingstone not only ensures high-quality care but also provides a comprehensive inpatient treatment program. This includes continuous support from a 24-hour staff ready to assist whenever needed, making the initial steps towards recovery as clear and comforting as possible.
- Home-Like Environment: Creates a comfortable and nurturing setting, essential for the healing process.
- Empowerment and Potential: Aims to help patients reach their highest potential through supportive and compassionate services.
- 24-Hour Staff Coverage: Offers peace of mind with round-the-clock support, ensuring help is always available.
At Steppingstone, women facing challenges with alcoholism, opioid addiction, dual diagnosis, drug addiction, and substance abuse find specialized treatment. By offering a blend of detoxification services, inpatient and outpatient programs, and dual-diagnosis support, coupled with aftercare and sober-living options, Steppingstone covers the spectrum of care necessary for effective recovery.
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Rehab centers in Massachusetts exist to help individuals bounce back from substance abuse. Drug addiction refers to the use of illegal drugs and improper use of prescription drugs. Substance abuse includes all problems that stem out from using psychoactive substances. Centers like Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community are here to help.
Opioid addiction is one of the most common forms of addiction Massachusetts. Opioids include drugs like heroin, oxycontin and fentanyl. They are prescribed to treat pain, but they are often abused and they are addictive. The addiction is treated by detoxing the body, so it no longer needs the chemicals in the drugs. This is followed up by therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem.
Some of the most common co-occurring disorders are schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. Most rehab facilities in New Bedford, MA like Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community provide patients with a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis gives rehab the means to treat addiction while restoring mental and emotional health.
Levels of Care Offered at Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Outpatient, Residential, Sober-Living / Half-Way, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Detox is the first step of rehab. It involves giving a person time to get the toxins out of their body. During detox, the patient gets ill and they will often start using again to get rid of these unpleasant feelings. That’s why it’s so important to have a New Bedford medical professional at Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community present. A Massachusetts medical professional will make sure patients don’t start using during detox. They will also provide medication to ease their symptoms and coach them through on a mental level.
Inpatient rehabilitation aims to treat severe addictions and co-occurring disorders. Depending on individual requirements, the duration of the stay at Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community ranges from four weeks to six months. Massachusetts inpatient recovery guarantees that the patient resides in an environment free of drugs.
An Outpatient Rehab Program is a part-time drug rehab program for treating individuals in New Bedford, MA with mild addiction or mild-to-moderate drug withdrawal symptoms. It generally requires about 10 to 12 hours every week.
Doctors can administer on-the-spot medication to ease withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety, increased heart rate, and even depression. Groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) can be used as a part of outpatient treatment to help maintain sobriety.
A sober living home aims to reinforce sobriety and learnings from inpatient and outpatient programs. It’s a supervised environment in New Bedford, MA managed by Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community, which is guaranteed safe and free from addictive substances. There are strict rules regarding curfew and responsibilities, such as shared 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.
Aftercare Support at Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community, 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 workforce.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy refers to one-on-one psychotherapy between a patient and their Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community therapist. Individual therapy seeks to help identify the issues that drive and contribute to a client’s addiction or alcoholism. Another goal of individual counseling is to assist the client to learn how to manage their lives without alcohol or drugs.
Group therapy occurs in a group setting as opposed to a one on one setting. It benefits patients by providing a feeling of support and letting them know they are not alone. Patients at Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community also learn to build trust and understanding and gain perspective through discussions.
After experiencing trauma, it’s crucial to look for a facility that can provide trauma therapy. This approach zeroes in on the traumatic incidents that a patient has encountered in the past, recent or not. It’s been widely known that trauma can make an individual resort to alcohol or other substances to mask their troubles and pain. Trauma can originate from domestic violence, sexual abuse, an early encounter with death, sexual assault, and many more. The goal of trauma therapy at Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community in New Bedford, MA is to help the patient see beyond the trauma and move forward. Mental health professionals will facilitate the patient’s journey and see to it that he or she is no longer a victim of his or her traumatic experiences and has wholly regained his or her personal power.
Most individuals suffering from addiction have low self-awareness, so they end up making poor decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is suitable for patients recovering from an addiction of any kind. Through it, patients become more aligned with their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, giving them a better opportunity to respond appropriately to temptations and negative feelings.
This therapy modality at Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community in New Bedford, MA strengthens a person’s ability to stay on top of their emotional state and learn new stress management techniques so they won’t give in to the temptations easily. Moreover, CBT helps people communicate and express their emotions well, which can be vital in relapse management. CBT is also suitable for managing co-occurring disorders like depression and bipolar illness.
When it comes to maintaining sobriety, people who quit recovery without developing life skills are disadvantaged. While teaching life skills at Steppingstone - Women's Therapeutic Community is difficult, support with aftercare helps patients learn these skills over time. Life skills include getting a career, living in a good environment, self-care, and finance management, all in New Bedford, MA.
A 12-Step Program is a common method that is used to treat addiction. This format is used for both drug and alcohol treatment. It is extremely popular and successful for large numbers of people. It is a relatively simple set of steps that are done continuously in order to move through life with awareness, accountability and honesty. 12-Step programs are available in most every city in the Unites States. They are available in person, electronically and virtually through phone or web-based meetings.
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979 Pleasant St
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New Bedford, 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.
4.3% of people in New Bedford, Massachusetts had a substance abuse disorder in 2011-2012 and 3.1% used heroin, up from 1.0% in 2007-2008. There were 393 overdose deaths from heroin out of the 1,977 drug overdose deaths in New Bedford. Substances such as prescription drugs, heroin, methamphetamine, or crack cocaine are common in New Bedford for decades. New Bedford has multiple treatment options available such as inpatient and outpatient programs.
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