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The Ringer Center

The Ringer Center

Drug Rehab Center in Greensboro, North Carolina

  • Substance Abuse
  • Opioid Addiction
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Drug Addiction
  • Alcoholism

The Ringer Center in Greensboro, NC is an accredited and state-licensed comprehensive Addiction Treatment Facility providing a variety of services to individuals and their families suffering from substance abuse and addiction, including aftercare support, detox, drug rehab, dual diagnosis, intensive outpatient, and outpatient levels of care, with the staff dedicated to providing quality care and treatment in a safe and supportive environment.

About This North Carolina Facility

The Marguerite Burke Ringer Mental Health Center, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, offers outpatient services to help clients improve their quality of life. The center provides a comfortable and clean environment for individuals seeking counseling and treatment.

The Ringer Center specializes in treating depression, anxiety, stress-related problems, family issues, attention deficit, and substance abuse. They also offer outpatient detoxification services for those unable to afford inpatient care.

The facility follows a twelve-step philosophy and employs seven clinicians, including three licensed substance abuse counselors with a combined forty years of experience in recovery. The Ringer Center is accredited by JCAHO, SAMHSA, and maintains a state license in addiction treatment.

- Individual counseling tailored to each client's needs
- Family counseling to address the impact of addiction on loved ones
- Intensive outpatient program for those requiring more comprehensive care
- Evaluation and assessment process to create personalized treatment plans

North Carolina faces a significant opioid addiction crisis. The Ringer Center addresses this issue by providing specialized treatment, including medication-assisted therapy and counseling, to help individuals overcome opioid dependence.

The ideal candidate for treatment at The Ringer Center is an individual struggling with addiction or mental health issues, seeking an outpatient program to achieve lasting recovery.

Genders
  • Male
  • Female
  • Gender Exclusive Center
  • Ages
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Seniors (65+)
  • Modality
  • Individuals
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Groups
  • Additional
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Hearing Impaired
  • Veteran Specific
  • SAMHSA Listed
  • Smoking Allowed
  • Veterans
  • Accreditations

    State License

    SAMHSA

    JCAHO

    Conditions and Issues Treated

    Using both legal medications and illegal substances in order to maintain an addiction is substance abuse. If you are taking more of your prescription, or earlier than the prescribed time interval between doses than is directed you may be abusing that medication. If you are obtaining legal medications illegally in or near Greensboro, NC, you may be suffering from substance abuse.

    Illegal substances can become addictive after a single use and lead rapidly to substance abuse. The professionals at The Ringer Center are here to help.

    Opioids are a set of drugs prescribed for pain relief. Health care providers prescribe opioids for relief of severe pain after major surgeries and in conditions like cancer. Oxycodone, fentanyl, oxymorphone, hydrocodone, codeine, and morphine are some of the commonly prescribed opioids. They also include illegal drugs of abuse like heroin. Opioid addiction refers to the compulsive seeking of opioids, even when they are not required medically.

    Opioid addiction treatment involves medication-assisted therapy (MAT) in which medicines, counseling, and behavioral therapies are all employed. Opioid addiction treatment is a comprehensive approach at The Ringer Center in Greensboro, NC that boosts the treatment success rate and provides sustained recovery.

    Mental illness includes conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. It can also happen that mental illness causes drug addiction and vice versa. The Ringer Center in North Carolina knows it is vital to diagnose dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder.

    Levels of Care Offered at The Ringer Center

    This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, 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 North Carolina facility that provides the therapy. IOP is suitable for patients who have been treated in residential treatment programs. The Ringer Center‘s patients gradually get back to their routine life.

    Outpatient programs are the standard for addiction treatment. About 9 in 10 U.S. adolescents entering addiction treatment enroll in these programs, so you’re not alone in North Carolina. Treatment is delivered in different settings – offices, clinics, and primary care clinics.

    Facilities like The Ringer Center offer a variety of services, such as individual and group counseling and family therapy. During the sessions, you work with a team of experts that include: General physicians, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, and Psychologists. The main goals of outpatient recovery programs are to help addicted individuals reduce drug use and addictive behaviors, eventually becoming entirely sober.

    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 Greensboro, job therapy, or educational assistance may be included in this service, managed by The Ringer Center. This is when a preventive strategy for relapse starts to take shape.

    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 The Ringer Center‘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.

    Attending group therapy at The Ringer Center in Greensboro, North Carolina allows those seeking sobriety to realize they are not alone in their battles. This is when a group of people all in different phases of recovery get together and speak about their battles. They talk about their triggers, their successes, their failures, and the things they can do to get on and stay on a sober path. These sessions also teach life skills, communication, healthy habits, and can include alternative types of therapy.

    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 The Ringer Center in Greensboro, NC move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.

    Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a method of individual and/or group counseling in Greensboro, North Carolina that focuses on acceptance and change. It was developed to advance the idea of balancing opposites. It is a coping method of avoiding black and white approach to situations and problems. DBT can be very effective in developing coping strategies for negative emotions and experiences, and is available for patients at The Ringer Center.
    The relationship between the thoughts, feelings, and actions of a patient is explored by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). As an alternative to turning to drugs and alcohol in Greensboro, North Carolina, it helps to create a balanced response to thoughts and feelings. Effective communication between users and those around them is also encouraged. It is an efficient treatment for individuals suffering from all sorts of addictions, professionally provided by The Ringer Center.

    REBT stands for rational emotional behavior therapy. This is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, that combines images with thoughts and behaviors. It allows for deeper education and understanding of what one can do to help themselves with recovery. It is a deep sense of self-help education managed by The Ringer Center that lets someone recovering work through issues on their own, knowing they have the support of people around them if they need it.

    Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, shortened to EMDR, helps patients reprocess past events and memories. This treatment offered at The Ringer Center in Greensboro, NC can reduce their levels of anxiety and make past traumas easier to overcome, plus it can boost healing. This helps calm many patients down, allowing them to feel more in control and less helpless when it comes to combatting their addiction.

    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 The Ringer Center in Greensboro, NC 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.

    Entering a 12-step program allows people to accept that they struggle with an addiction on their own terms. It breaks down the process into 12-steps that recovering patients can advance as they feel strong enough to do so. This is common in programs like NA and AA, and gives the patient at The Ringer Center in Greensboro, North Carolina the ability to self-help and move forward towards sobriety without feeling rushed.

    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. The Ringer Center 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 The Ringer Center in Greensboro, NC 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.

    Contingency management is a way to help motivate someone to remain substance free. It is a process The Ringer Center uses which involves rewarding positive choices and good outcomes. As humans we are wired to recreate experiences that lead to positive feelings.

    Patient Experience

    Experiential Therapy at The Ringer Center

    This is a type of therapy that involves activity to recreate situations that may have caused trauma or negative emotions. Experiential therapy at The Ringer Center in Greensboro, NC 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.

    Payment Options Accepted

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  • Self-Pay / Cash
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Military Insurance
  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
  • Sliding Scale
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    Additional Details

    Specifics, location, and helpful extra information.
    The Ringer Center Location and Directions
    Address Information213 E Bessemer Ave
    Greensboro, North Carolina 27401 Phone Number(336) 379-7146 Meta DetailsUpdated April 15, 2024
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    Greensboro, North Carolina Addiction Information

    North Carolina ranks 29th in the nation for overall substance abuse. Many of the drugs abused in the state are illicit, and many of these are opioids. Prescription opioids are readily available due to the high rates of medical workers prescribing them. The number of prescriptions has increased tenfold since the 1980's. Opioid overdoses are the most common type of death in North Carolina.

    Greensboro, North Carolina has a high rate of drug and alcohol addiction. The most common substances abused in the city are alcohol, marijuana, and opioids. In 2018, there were 548 reported cases of drug overdoses in Greensboro, which is an increase from the previous year. Which option is best for someone will depend on the severity of their addiction, their financial resources, and whether they have any underlying mental health conditions.

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