Warriors Heart
Drug Rehab Center in Bandera, Texas
Warriors Heart is an accredited addiction treatment facility located in Bandera, Texas that offers a wide range of services to those struggling with addiction and dual diagnosis, including detoxification, inpatient care, outpatient support, and various levels of aftercare in addition to accepting private health insurance plans.
About This Texas Facility
Warriors Heart, located in Bandera, Texas, provides specialized mental health, trauma, and addiction treatment to men and women who have served in the military. Their unique approach creates a non-institutionalized setting tailored to the needs of Veterans and active military personnel through outpatient and sober living programs.
- Warriors Heart offers a 52-bed sober living community that teaches residents how to process traumas, develop routines, and transition back to their families in a healthy manner.
- The intensive outpatient program provides a range of recovery-oriented groups, including experiential therapy, equine therapy, nutrition advice, life skills classes, 12-step programs, trauma work, and EMDR.
- Specialized care is available for those who have experienced sexual trauma within the military.
Warriors Heart is accredited by the Joint Commission and licensed by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Their trauma-informed approach recognizes the role of trauma in addiction and utilizes evidence-based treatments to target the nervous system's processing centers, promoting mental, emotional, and physical balance.
Warriors Heart treats a range of addictions, including substance abuse, alcohol abuse, and co-occurring psychological disorders related to PTSD and mild traumatic brain injury. Treatment methods include individual, group, and family therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, psychiatric care, and quality medical care. The 12-Step program is a common recovery model used, along with additional support groups like Narcotics Anonymous and Gamblers Anonymous.
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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 Bandera, TX, 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 Warriors Heart are here to help.
Opioid addiction treatment helps people addicted to opioids in Texas 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 Warriors Heart is essential to understand the addiction better.
Levels of Care Offered at Warriors Heart
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Outpatient, 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 Texas generally span over 28 days to six months. The first step in an inpatient program is medically assisted detox. Doctors and addiction specialists at Warriors Heart 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, Warriors Heart offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the Texas 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.
Sober living houses like Warriors Heart in Bandera 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.
Aftercare comprises services that help recovering addicts readjust to normal day-to-day Texas 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 Warriors Heart‘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.
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 Warriors Heart in Bandera, TX move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, shortened to EMDR, helps patients reprocess past events and memories. This treatment offered at Warriors Heart in Bandera, TX 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.
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. Warriors Heart 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 Warriors Heart in Bandera, TX 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 Warriors Heart
This is a type of therapy that involves activity to recreate situations that may have caused trauma or negative emotions. Experiential therapy at Warriors Heart in Bandera, TX 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.
Fitness Therapy
Exercise is an ideal way to improve physical and mental health. To help a body heal from the damage of addiction, those undergoing treatment at Warriors Heart in Bandera, TX are advised to engage in fitness therapy. It also increases anxiety and acts as a control that makes patients less likely to use, and ultimately curb physical desires to do so.
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756 Purple Sage Rd
Bandera, TX 78003
(855) 240-8570
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Bandera, Texas Addiction Information
Texas is one of the primary hubs for drug smuggling into the country. The border between Texas and Mexico is more than 1,000 miles long. More than 10 million residents use alcohol every year and more than 25% of those are minors. Alcohol and drug use has become so common in Texas that almost 15% of all deaths can be attributed to these substances.
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