Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic
Drug Rehab Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee
About This Tennessee Facility
Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic’s Drug Treatment Center, located in Chattanooga, TN, offers multiple levels of care, individualized treatment options, and accepts most health insurance.
Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic offers treatment options that are fully covered by most private insurance plans. Have our experts find out exactly where your health insurance is provided. Additionally, clients can self-pay.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Opioid addiction treatment helps people addicted to opioids in Tennessee curb their drug use. The selection of a treatment setting depends on the severity of the addiction. Mild cases are usually treated in outpatient facilities; severe cases need hospitalization or treatment in a residential facility. Doctors use medicines along with counseling and behavioral therapies to treat the addiction. The treatment includes medication, counseling and therapy. It can also include group counseling, individual counseling and family counseling.
Conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder are part of mental illness. This may occur that opioid abuse and vice versa are induced by mental illness. Diagnosing a concurrent diagnosis or co-occurring condition at Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic is essential to understand the addiction better.
Levels of Care Offered at Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, Partial-Hospitalization, Residential, Sober-Living / Half-Way, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Detox is a drug rehab process that begins before the actual drug rehab treatment. It is used to remove any residual toxins left in your body (and brain) after using drugs, and it is used with the intent to help you or your loved one complete drug rehab.
If you are addicted to opiates like heroin, methadone, or prescription painkillers, you will detox with medication. This is because the withdrawal symptoms are often more intense and uncomfortable for an opiate addict than for someone who has abused or is dependent on other drugs, like cocaine.
Inpatient programs are intensive regimes that require individuals suffering from serious addictions to admit themselves into a controlled environment. Inpatient programs in Tennessee generally span over 28 days to six months. The first step in an inpatient program is medically assisted detox. Doctors and addiction specialists at Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic monitor the individual’s vital signs as the drugs leave their system. Some inpatient rehab programs also provide counseling for family members to provide encouragement and emotional support. In inpatient programs, patients have access to 24-hour medical supervision.
To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the Tennessee 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.
A partial hospitalization program is set up to cover those struggling with acute symptoms of addiction. This means that the individual is cared for in a hospital-like environment in Chattanooga, TN during the struggle of those symptoms, but allowed to go home at night. Most PHPs require approximately six-hours of therapy, at least three days per week.
Sober living houses like Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic in Chattanooga help the patient move from a structured recovery facility to an everyday life smoothly. They are also known as homes for recuperation or half-way houses. SLH offers the value of living with a peer group with similar experiences and is recovering collectively, instead of individualized or alone.
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 comprises services that help recovering addicts readjust to normal day-to-day Tennessee activities. It can last a year or even longer. Services include individual and family counseling, medications to reduce cravings, and treatment of psychiatric and other medical conditions. Aftercare support begins once you have completed earlier stages of treatment.
Therapies & Programs
Therapy plays a major role in addiction recovery. It encourages patients to get to the root of their addiction and learn how to better handle the issues that led to using. Therapy can be conducted in group and one on one settings. In Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic‘s individual therapy, the patient meets with the therapist in a one on one setting. This allows them to focus on the underlying issues of addiction and come up with solutions to prevent future abuse.
One of the most common areas of stress and damage during addiction is in intimate relationships. Addiction involves everyone in a family, not only the addict. Couples therapy can rebuild trust and joy that may have been damaged.
When the whole family is involved, healing can be far more successful. Family counseling involves genetic factors to the family of the addict. This offers the means to cope with addiction and its underlying emotional disorders for loved ones. It is a helpful method for addicts in helping to adjust to sober living.
Trauma therapy allows people who struggled with a past trauma to face the situation and learn to overcome the situation. Many people who went through trauma early on, struggle with addiction later in life. By addressing the trauma and moving past the issues, it can help someone attending treatment at Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic in Chattanooga, TN move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.
Training someone on improved life skills allows for someone recovering from an addiction to feel more capable at taking care of him or herself. The skills taught at Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic in Chattanooga, TN are daily skills that give a better recovery foundation by simply giving someone the tools they need to survive. They include communicating, time and money management, career guidance, and more.
Addiction commonly results in malnutrition, vitamin and mineral deficiencies. This can be reflected in weight loss, hair loss or hair changes, skin irregularities. Eating correctly to replace lost vitamins and minerals while balancing your diet can build confidence. Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic will help you get back on track.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) uses low-dose nicotine drugs to eliminate tobacco addiction from smokers. Without smoking, the treatment at Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic in Chattanooga, TN brings nicotine into the bloodstream to minimize dependence on the physical habit, while detoxing the body from the attachment. To alleviate withdrawal symptoms, it also helps abusers to adapt to lower doses over time.
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Creative Arts
Creative Arts Therapy, an umbrella term that includes a variety of structured and unstructured therapies, can help addicts in many ways. For example, many addicts have short attention spans and have difficulty focusing on tasks. Creative arts therapy promotes changes in brain function to increase memory and the ability to focus, thus creating a solid foundation for addiction recovery.
Creative arts therapy uses painting, music and poetry to release negative feelings. It is also an effective method of dealing with anxiety and accessing emotions. Integrating feelings and thoughts together is the goal for a more balanced approach to life.
Experiential Therapy at Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic
This is a type of therapy that involves activity to recreate situations that may have caused trauma or negative emotions. Experiential therapy at Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Chattanooga VA Outpatient Clinic in Chattanooga, TN can involve acting, props, arts and crafts, animal care or other tools that may be effective.
This therapy is done on an individual basis and can help revisit and heal from past traumas. Trust between the therapist and individual is important for success. Experiential therapy can help you more closely become you and move through life in a positive and authentic manner.
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Chattanooga, 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 2013 there were 677 admissions to substance abuse treatment facilities in Chattanooga, TN, for various drugs, including alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. In 2016, 17.2 per 100,000 population overdose deaths in Tennessee. The majority of these overdose deaths involved an opioid. From 2013 to 2016, the number of people admitted to rehab for heroin addiction increased by 226%. Common treatments in Chattanooga include inpatient rehab, outpatient rehab, and 12-Step programs.
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