Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic
Drug Rehab Center in Athens, Tennessee
About This Tennessee Facility
Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic’s Drug Treatment Center, located in Athens, TN, offers multiple levels of care, individualized treatment options, and accepts most health insurance.
We recommend treatment at accredited centers. They are also listed in or certified by JCAHO.
Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic’s Athens location accepts most private health insurance. Contact our admissions experts to verify your insurance, and find the best facility that is covered by your provider. Individuals can also self-pay.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
A dual diagnosis is when someone deals with both alcohol and mental or emotional disorder. Emotional trauma, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression can be part of dual diagnosis therapy. It must happen simultaneously to get care for these conditions to handle any of them effectively.
Levels of Care Offered at Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, Partial-Hospitalization, Residential, Sober-Living / Half-Way, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Detoxification is a process that allows the patient to stop using opioids without experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms. This can be necessary for those who have been addicted for a long period of time or who are struggling with chronic pain. During this process, addicts will receive medication and psychological support from doctors and other medical professionals until they can control their cravings.
Intensive outpatient programs (IOP) comprise regular visits to the Tennessee facility that provides the therapy. IOP is suitable for patients who have been treated in residential treatment programs. Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic‘s patients gradually get back to their routine life.
In outpatient programs at Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic, the Athens 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.
Partial hospitalization program (PHP) offered by Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic is an alternate option for inpatient rehabs or residential programs. The patients stay in a Athens facility closer to the Tennessee treatment center and attend the different forms of therapy for several hours a day. Treatment duration varies from one to six months.
A sober living home in Tennessee 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 Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic helps the individual adjust to a life without substances. This support may involve a sober living home in or near Athens, TN, 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 Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic. 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.
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 Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic helps repair the damage done to these important relationships.
Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic 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.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is designed for those who are prone to self-harm and suicidal behaviors. Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Athens VA Clinic aims to help patients understand the relationship between their thoughts, feeling and behaviors and it gives them the tools to make a change. It is effective for those whose addictions and behaviors stem from extreme mental health issues.
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.
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1320 Decatur Pike
Athens, TN 37303
(423) 746-1410
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Athens, Tennessee Addiction Information
Tennessee joins the list of states with an above-average rate for drug and/or alcohol-induced deaths. Most of these deaths are related to opioids, such as prescription opioids. The Volunteer State ranks 2nd highest in the nation for the number of prescriptions given out. The state also ranks at the top for prescription drug-related overdoses.
In Athens, Tennessee, the drug addiction problem is less severe than in larger metropolitan areas. Over 6,000 people in Athens struggle with addiction to drugs or alcohol. In 2016, 10% of eighth-graders reported using prescription painkillers for nonmedical reasons. Athens, TN, is a great place to get sober. There are many local and nearby rehab listings in Athens, to get the treatment to recover from addiction.
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