UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center
Drug Rehab Center in Dunkirk, New York
UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center offers a wide range of evidence-based therapeutic care, including detoxification, residential and partial-hospitalization, for individuals dealing with substance abuse, addiction, mental health issues, and other challenges, with a highly qualified staff specializing in treating various conditions.
About This Dunkirk, NY Facility
Located in Dunkirk, New York, UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center specializes in mental health and chemical dependency services for individuals across all ages. This outpatient clinic stands out for its commitment to providing personalized, compassionate care in a supportive environment, ensuring confidentiality and professionalism at every step.
- Personalized Treatment Plans are crafted to align with each client's strengths and involve their significant others, ensuring a comprehensive approach to recovery.
- Spanish Language Programming makes this facility accessible to a broader community, emphasizing inclusivity and understanding.
- Team Approach to Care ensures a multidisciplinary strategy, combining psychiatric assessment, medication management, and continuous support.
UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center is accredited by JCAHO, SAMHSA, and holds a State License, reflecting its commitment to maintaining high standards of care. The center's approach is rooted in understanding the unique needs of those struggling with addiction, offering a range of services from psychiatric assessments to relapse prevention.
The center addresses a variety of issues, including alcoholism, dual diagnosis, eating disorders, drug addiction, and more. Treatment methods span from detoxification to aftercare support, with levels of care including outpatient, residential, and partial-hospitalization programs, tailored to meet the needs of each individual.
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This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Outpatient, Residential, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Detoxification is the mainstay of drug addiction treatment. Recovery from drug addiction requires regular medical monitoring, temporary medication use, and other techniques.
If you or someone you know has a substance abuse problem in Dunkirk provide various methods for drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
In outpatient programs at UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center, the Dunkirk 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.
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 refers to the follow-up care provided after the initial rehab program. The quality of aftercare support plays an important role in preventing relapses and sustains recovery. Aftercare support at UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center is personalized according to the needs of the patient in New York.
UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center‘s Therapies & Programs
Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center. This builds a personal and trusting relationship so you can truly be yourself and express any emotions as you feel them. Individual therapy leads to greater peace and understanding about your triggers for addiction and coping strategies to prevent relapse.
Substance abuse does a number on an individual’s relationship with other people, particularly in marriage. Spousal relationships bear the brunt of alcohol and drug dependence. Therefore, it becomes critical to submit the relationship to couples therapy to prevent straining it further. Most programs only zero in on the individual with substance addiction without factoring in the importance of the other half’s emotional support.
However, some facilities, like UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center in Dunkirk, New York, offer couples therapy options to manage intimate partnerships amid the recovery process. Other couples-focused treatment plans can provide the patient and their partner tools to get things back to normal, support each other, and the patient’s sobriety.Group Therapy is a type of counseling that occurs between a bunch of strangers. These groups are suitable for patients who are not confined in a treatment facility, but group sessions are also common in inpatient rehab programs. Group therapy is led by a trained individual at UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center in Dunkirk, NY and consists of members from different stages of recovery.
The goal of group therapy sessions is to foster hope and a sense of belonging, share information, and learn coping mechanisms. It also helps to have people who can relate to what you’re going through. Good behaviors can also be contagious, and participants can learn from one another.
Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) DBT is a treatment of choice for people being treated at UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center whom are suffering from self-harming behaviors. Conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder also benefit from DBT.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center asks people to investigate how their thoughts, including habitual, negative, and inaccurate ways of thinking affect behaviors. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible ways of thinking cause people to have a limited ability to cope with stress
Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a method of specific counseling that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts with positive and productive behaviors. Self-defeating thoughts and habits can limit your possible successes. Some examples of this are procrastination, unhealthy eating and angry outbursts. You may not be aware that some unhealthy behaviors and thoughts are sabotaging your potential accomplishments.
Nutrition therapy, which is also known as Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) involves providing healthy diet and improving the eating habits of the patient. Expert dieticians provide individualized meal plan, that addresses the specific nutritional deficiencies and the nutritional impact associated with the medicines that are given as a part of the treatment. It helps to overcome the food cravings that are seen in certain addictions and also addresses the co-occurring conditions such as eating disorders.
Nutrition therapy is very important to support the different therapies provided as a part of comprehensive care. Nutrition therapy also teaches the associated life skills such as cooking healthy food and grocery shopping.
Nicotine replacement is a way to move towards stopping smoking or using any form of nicotine. This can be nicotine gum or nicotine patches. The process of working with trained staff at UPMC Chautauqua WCA - Dunkirk Health Center in setting a goal quit date, using nicotine replacement and gradually decreasing nicotine intake is proven to help.
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Dunkirk, New York Addiction Information
More than 2 million New Yorkers are currently suffering from some type of substance abuse and many of those are minors. Alcohol abuse, in particular, is prevalent among those underage. As a result of the high prices and regulation of prescription drugs, many New Yorkers turn to heroin instead. This has led to a serious heroin epidemic in the state.
Dunkirk, NY, is a small city located in Chautauqua County. In 2015, there were 23 overdose deaths in Dunkirk. That's an alarming rate of 8.5 overdose deaths per 100,000 people. And it's only getting worse. In 2016, there were 32 overdose deaths in Dunkirk. That's an increase of 39% in just one year. Many drug treatment options are available for someone looking to get sober in Dunkirk, New York.
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