
Sterling Area Health Center
Drug Rehab Center in Sterling, Michigan
- Substance Abuse
- Opioid Addiction
- Drug Addiction
Sterling Area Health Center, located in Sterling, MI, provides comprehensive addiction treatment services, including drug rehab, detoxification, outpatient care, case management, peer support, and medication-assisted treatment, all with private health insurance accepted and an available range of aftercare services for successful recovery.
About This Michigan Facility
Sterling Area Health Center is a comprehensive community health center located in Sterling, Michigan, providing high-quality healthcare and support services for a range of physical and mental health issues and addictions. Their mission is to promote a healthier community through the provision of comprehensive patient-centered care in order to improve population health.
Sterling Area Health Center offers a variety of levels of care, methods and treatments to address opioid addiction, substance abuse, alcoholism and mental health issues. Treatment options range from 12-Step Facilitation to Aftercare and Residential Long-Term to Outpatient Treatment, designed to help individuals and families achieve their goals in the least restrictive level of care. In addition, they accept private health insurance and offer a variety of additional healthcare services, such as Health Education, Counselling, and Women's Issues Counselling. If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, mental health, or any related issue, consider reaching out to the Sterling Area Health Center for help.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
The inappropriate use of any drug in Sterling, MI is substance abuse. This involves alcohol, medications, and illicit drugs. With a combination of physical and psychiatric therapies, drug addiction is successfully treated at Sterling Area Health Center. After Detox is complete, individuals follow-up with treatments treating the root cause of the addiction.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment at Sterling Area Health Center
Opioid Addiction Treatment supports people recovering from addiction to prescription drugs as well as illegal opioids. This is a hospital-based or residential treatment. Depending upon one’s age, detox without the appropriate medication may be unpleasant or even dangerous–some get body aches, fever, chills, while others may even have seizures.
Opioid treatment involves medically assisted detox, physical and mental support. Most rehabilitations use an array of treatments to ensure overall wellbeing, such as Medication-assisted therapy (MAT) in which one gets behavioral therapy, medicines, and counseling. A client-centered approach can reduce one’s chances of relapse. Therapists at work with the client to figure out environmental and behavioral triggers, giving them the power to change the patterns.
Opioid Addiction, Substance Abuse
Levels of Care Offered at Sterling Area Health Center
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Outpatient Program
Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Sterling Area Health Center long term. In addition to helping them recover, the patient attends regular therapy sessions and detox and participates in other therapies. However, this is all primarily done from home. As a follow-up to inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment is usually recommended.
After rehabilitation, it helps people return to their everyday lives. It may also be an alternative to inpatient care in some situations. If they cannot leave their jobs, children, or don’t have the money for inpatient care, people can choose this method. Inpatient therapy, however, is the best method and most suggested level of treatment offered by Sterling Area Health Center in recovering from addiction.
Treatment for substance abuse does not cease after an individual successfully completes a detox or rehabilitation program. A vital follow-up treatment service is aftercare support provided to individuals at Sterling Area Health Center in Michigan after they attain initial sobriety.
Aftercare support often takes the following forms: 12-Step Programs, Outpatient Treatment Programs, and Support Groups. The most effective aftercare programs are tailored to meet an individual’s specific needs and circumstances.
Therapies & Programs
Couples Therapy
Addiction and alcoholism always harm an addict’s relationships with others and none more than relationships with a spouse or partner. Couples therapy is an essential part of restoring trust and good communication to intimate relationships harmed by addiction. Couples therapy by Sterling Area Health Center helps repair the damage done to these important relationships.
Family Counseling + Therapy
Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Sterling Area Health Center brings in the addict’s family to explore genetic factors. It gives loved ones the tools for dealing with addiction and its underlying mental issues. It is a recommended step in helping addicts adapt to sober living.
Trauma is one of the most common causes of psychological disorders. It’s often found in people with addiction diagnoses. Trauma therapy addresses this by examining the emotions and thoughts people have formed due to past traumas. Traumas are complex but trauma therapy can reduce their ability to contribute to addictive behaviors.
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 Sterling Area Health Center that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts.
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 and the staff at Sterling Area Health Center are trained to assist in 12-step management.
Contingency Management (CM), also known as motivational incentives or prize method, is a behavioral therapy type. It is based on the principle that their consequences influence the behaviors of an individual. So, it promotes the desired behavior by giving rewards while discouraging the unwanted behaviors by withholding the rewards or even by giving punishments. One of the expected desired behavior is the absence of drug in a toxicology screen, and the rewards vary from prize or vouchers, to experiences. CM is used for individuals who need therapy for more than 3 months, and it has the advantage of being implemented by family members.
12-Step Facilitation, Aftercare, Anger Management, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), Contingency management/motivational incentives, Couples Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Discharge Planning, Drug Rehab, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis, Intervention, Matrix Model, Outpatient Treatment (OP), Residential Long Term (>30 Days), Substance Use Counseling, Trauma Therapy
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Sterling, Michigan 48659 Phone Number(989) 654-3501 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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Sterling, Michigan Addiction Information
Michigan has the second-highest rate of drug and alcohol abuse in the nation. Heroin is linked to more than 50% of the state's hepatitis C cases. Marijuana is the drug most often associated with crimes in Michigan, followed by methamphetamines. Opioids alone are responsible for almost 20% of all drug overdose deaths in Michigan.
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