West Texas VA Health Care System - San Angelo Clinic
Drug Rehab Center in San Angelo, Texas
About This Texas Facility
West Texas VA Health Care System - San Angelo Clinic’s Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment Center location in San Angelo, TX, offers multiple levels of care, individualized treatment options, and accepts most health insurance.
Accreditations are crucial when selecting a facility. This center is also certified by CARF and JCAHO.
Our independent research has indicated treatment here is typically fully covered by most insurances. Please call our admissions experts for insurance coverage information and verification. Self-pay is also available.
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Accreditations
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CARF
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.
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 West Texas VA Health Care System - San Angelo 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, 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 Texas facility that provides the therapy. IOP is suitable for patients who have been treated in residential treatment programs. West Texas VA Health Care System - San Angelo Clinic‘s patients gradually get back to their routine life.
In outpatient programs at West Texas VA Health Care System - San Angelo Clinic, the San Angelo 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.
A sober living home in Texas 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 West Texas VA Health Care System - San Angelo Clinic helps the individual adjust to a life without substances. This support may involve a sober living home in or near San Angelo, TX, 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 West Texas VA Health Care System - San Angelo 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 West Texas VA Health Care System - San Angelo 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 West Texas VA Health Care System - San Angelo 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.
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.
The right diet can improve a person’s general outlook, sleep habits and thought processing skills. MNT also lowers the occurrence of chronic diseases such as adult-onset diabetes. Dieticians like those at West Texas VA Health Care System - San Angelo Clinic in San Angelo, TX believe that nutrition therapy is the key to making significant lifestyle changes.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) uses low dose nicotine products to ween smokers away from cigarettes. The products get nicotine into the bloodstream without smoking reducing addiction to the physical habit. It also allows addicts to adjust to lower doses to reduce withdrawal symptoms.
Patient Experience
Experiential Therapy at West Texas VA Health Care System - San Angelo Clinic
Experiential therapy involves recreating or creating new experiences for the patient. Many people struggled with past issues such as memories or trauma. By creating a new experience, it allows people to work through the issues associated with those moments in a new experience. This can give them a new measure of control and can help them role play a new scenario. That can help push addiction into their past and help them begin the healing process.
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San Angelo, Texas 76905 Phone Number(325) 658-6138 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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2018 Pulliam St
San Angelo, TX 76905
(325) 658-6138
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San Angelo, 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.
The drug addiction problem in San Angelo, Texas, is relatively moderate compared to other cities in the state. There were 981 drug-related arrests in San Angelo in 2016. This accounted for more than 14% of the city's total arrests. Additionally, 9 deaths were related to drug overdoses in San Angelo in 2016. San Angelo is a great place to get sober. There are many addiction treatment centers in the area.
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