Families Matter LLC in Villas, New Jersey, offers comprehensive drug and alcohol treatment programs for those struggling with substance abuse. Established in 2003, the center provides mental health and co-occurring counseling services, featuring accessible NJ Transit Bus Service and serving multiple Southern New Jersey counties.
The mission of Families Matter is to offer community-based counseling and behavioral support to children and families in Southern New Jersey. Licensed by the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the facility collaborates with various local and state agencies to ensure quality care.
- Specializes in dual diagnosis treatment, addressing both substance abuse and mental health disorders.
- Uses therapeutic approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and trauma-related counseling.
- Offers intensive outpatient treatment, regular outpatient treatment, and relapse prevention programs.
- Provides specialized programs for adolescents, veterans, LGBT clients, and individuals impacted by trauma or domestic violence.
Families Matter treats substance abuse and co-occurring mental health issues, serving a diverse range of clients including adults, adolescents, veterans, and pregnant/postpartum women.
- 18 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 4 Levels of Care
- Speaks English, Spanish
- 19 Therapies & Programs
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
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 Villas, NJ, 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 Families Matter are here to help.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment at Families Matter
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 Families Matter in Villas, NJ that boosts the treatment success rate and provides sustained recovery.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Intensive outpatient programs (IOP) comprise regular visits to the New Jersey facility that provides the therapy. IOP is suitable for patients who have been treated in residential treatment programs. Families Matter‘s patients gradually get back to their routine life.
Facilities like Families Matter 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 Villas, job therapy, or educational assistance may be included in this service, managed by Families Matter. This is when a preventive strategy for relapse starts to take shape.
Therapies & Programs
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.
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 Families Matter in Villas, NJ move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.
Payment Options
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Location & Contact

899 Bayshore Road
Villas, NJ 8251
Phone Number
(609) 886-8666
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Villas, New Jersey Addiction and Treatment
The state of New Jersey is afflicted by the rising opioid overdose crisis and the increase in the number of residents engaging in illegal substance abuse. 90% of the 2,900 drug overdose deaths in New Jersey involved opioids in 2018. Over 1.1 million New Jersey residents reportedly use drugs in a given year. High prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse caused 14% of all deaths in the state between 2008 and 2017.
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