Westside Community Services - Integrated Services
Drug Rehab Center in San Francisco, California
Westside Community Services - Integrated Services is a San Francisco, CA-based drug rehab center providing compassionate, evidence-based treatment for addiction and associated mental health conditions, with programs tailored to individual needs and accepted private health insurances.
About This San Francisco, CA Facility
Westside Community Services-Integrated Services in San Francisco, California, is an outpatient facility providing a range of mental health, substance use disorder, and social services. Founded in 1996, the mission of the facility is to promote health and wellness and to address the underlying risk factors of alcohol and drug use, trauma, poverty, and lack of access to mental health services in their local community. The facility offers a wide range of services, including medical and psychiatric care, recovery-based counseling, mental health and substance use disorder treatment, and support services.
The facility provides specialized, trauma-focused and evidence-based treatment for addiction and substance abuse, including outpatient detoxification and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder. Additional services for addiction and substance abuse include individual and group counseling, relapse prevention, support groups, and drug testing. Westside Community Services-Integrated Services is fully accredited and licensed, and it has been assessed and approved by the Joint Commission, a healthcare accrediting agency.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance use disorder falls under two categories: Alcohol or Drug Abuse and Drug Dependence. An individual suffering from a substance use disorder and mental health disorders is said to have a co-occurring disorder or a dual disorder. Individuals in San Francisco, CA with substance use disorders and mental health problems are said to suffer from a ‘dual diagnosis’.
The most frequently identified mental health issues found in individuals with substance use disorders include anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder.
Levels of Care Offered
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Dual-Diagnosis, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Outpatient treatment is treatment that occurs when a patient is not checked into a rehab facility. The patient may show up for therapy sessions, go through detox and engage in other therapies to help them recover. However, they will do so while they live at home in California.
Outpatient therapy provided by Westside Community Services - Integrated Services is usually recommended as a follow up to inpatient therapy. It helps patients adapt to their normal lives after treatment. In some cases, it can also be an alternative to inpatient treatment. People may choose this route if they are unable to leave their jobs, children or if they don’t have the money for inpatient treatment. However, inpatient treatment is the best way to recover from addiction.
Westside Community Services - Integrated Services‘s Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy aims to identify the core issues that would have led the patient to substance abuse and address the root cause effectively. 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.
Couples therapy is an approach wherein the patients and their partners are engaged together as a part of the treatment process. When a person becomes a victim of substance abuse, it affects the patient and the people around him, particularly his partner. Their relationship can become strained due to lack of communication, financial issues, loss of trust, lack of intimacy, and physical abuse in more severe cases.
Couples therapy addresses these issues and tries to rebuild the trust between the partners. The partner’s involvement in the process will result in greater chances of treatment success and sustained recovery.
Family therapy is a set of therapeutic approaches that assumes that the entire family is a system. It utilizes the strengths and resources of the family to help the patient refrain from resorting to substance abuse. It helps to repair relationships and improve communication between family members.
Group therapy happens at Westside Community Services - Integrated Services in a controlled group environment, as opposed to a one-on-one setting. It supports San Francisco, CA patients’ recovery by offering a sense of comfort and letting them know that they are not alone. Through shared conversations, patients also learn to develop faith and understanding and gain insight on their addictions.
Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma therapy refers to treatment wherein specialist therapists help the patients to resolve the trauma that led the patients to substance abuse. The trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. Thinking of these traumatic events causes emotional disturbances like anxiety, depression and results in addiction. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed. Otherwise, there is a risk of relapse. Trauma therapy also improves the cognitive functions and provides long term benefits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). DBT is a treatment of choice for people suffering from self-harming behaviors characterized by cutting and suicidal thoughts or inclinations.
This treatment is developed to help individuals recognize their thought patterns, behaviors, and feelings. It has demonstrated its effectiveness for people that are finding it difficult to control their emotions and urges. Conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder also benefit from DBT as it imparts individuals stress-management techniques and enhanced self-esteem so they can sustain their sobriety by reducing the impact of triggers and out-of-control emotions.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a way of addressing concerns through talking. It can be used in individual counseling sessions. Talking through issues with professionals at Westside Community Services - Integrated Services can identify sources of discomfort or unhealthy thoughts. It is a way of learning about yourself and your individual perceptions. CBT is a healthy way of addressing some behaviors which may be bringing unintended consequences in your life.
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is a treatment that helps people to quit smoking. NRT reduces the withdrawal symptoms by giving nicotine in low doses. It is safe for most adults, teens and pregnant women should not undergo NRT. Research shows that the use of NRT doubles the chances of quitting smoking.
Patient Experience
Experiential Therapy at Westside Community Services - Integrated Services
Experiential therapy works on the principle that the perception of individuals determines their behavior. It is different from medication and talk therapy and suits those who have difficulty in expressing themselves and interact. Experiential therapy works by using tools and activities to recreate past experiences and encourages the release of suppressed thoughts that were responsible for the negative feelings and drug addiction.
Role-playing, arts and crafts, music, animal care, rock climbing, etc. are some of the activities used in this therapy. Gradually the individual will experience calmness and love and change their perception positively. Other than drug addiction, Experiential therapy is useful in various behavioral and eating disorders.
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San Francisco, California 94103 Phone Number(415) 355-0311 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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245 11th St
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 355-0311
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San Francisco, California Addiction Information
More than 3 million of California's citizens are addicted to illegal drugs. Almost 800,000 people use hard drugs, almost 5 million use marijuana, and another 2.1 million abuse alcohol every year. Other substance abuse issues such as binge drinking and teen drug use are also common. Many illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana are smuggled into the state from Mexico.
There were 1,93 overdose deaths in San Francisco in 2016. This is a significant increase from the 1,11 overdose deaths reported in 2015. 16% of San Francisco residents aged 12 and older reported using an illicit drug. Drug abuse and addiction cost San Francisco an estimated $5 billion yearly. San Francisco's drug treatment facilities are designed to meet each patient's unique needs, providing the support and resources necessary for a successful recovery.
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