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Choosing an Alcohol Recovery Center

With the widespread acceptance of alcohol within everyday American culture, it’s really no wonder so many people develop alcohol abuse disorder. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 80,000 people die from alcohol abuse within any given year making alcoholism the third leading cause of death as far as lifestyle-related causes go.

Choosing an alcoholism treatment facility marks the first step towards reclaiming control over one’s life. With so many alcohol addiction programs to choose from, it becomes especially important to find the program that best meets your treatment needs.

Alcohol abuse rehab facilities may offer different levels of care depending on what stage of alcoholism they treat with each program focusing on different stages of the treatment process. Ensuring a rehabilitation program carries the necessary licensing and accreditation credentials should also be a factor in the selection process. As alcoholism can well affect a person for the rest of his or her life, finding a local rehab center that offers needed aftercare supports can also help ensure a successful recovery process.

Choosing the Right Alcoholism Addiction Recovery Program

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an estimated 47 percent of people who entered treatment in 2006 successfully completed the program. This number speaks to the importance of choosing a program that addresses a person’s individual treatment needs.

Individualized treatment planning takes into account any circumstances that contribute to a person’s drinking problem. Contributing factors may take the form of:

Levels of Alcoholism Care

Alcohol abuse recovery facilities may offer different levels of care that vary in intensity and overall structure. These levels of care may include:

For people with a long-history of alcohol abuse, the structure and direction provided by residential programs is often necessary at the outset of the treatment process. For people at the early stages of alcoholism, outpatient programs offer services on a scheduled basis that can be coordinated with a person’s work and family schedule.

Sober living environments act as a “practice run” for people who’ve just left drug treatment but still feel unsure about re-entering the world of everyday life.

Addiciton Facility Licensing and Accreditation

As part of the medical field, alcohol addiction treatment programs must abide by certain federal and state requirements when it comes to licensing and accreditation. These requirements help ensure each program maintains a certain level of safety and standard of care within its daily operations. The centers staff should also hold required licensing and certifications based on their individual job roles within the program.

Addiction Aftercare Support

Once a person completes treatment, the stressors and pressures of everyday life can easily challenge his or her recovery efforts. In order to best prepare recovering alcoholics for everyday life, an alcohol revocery program should provide an aftercare plan that lays out a person’s ongoing treatment needs.

Aftercare Treatment Plans

  • Community-based referrals for ongoing addiction counseling and therapy
  • A listing of local 12-Step support meeting groups
  • Referrals for any needed medical treatment
  • Referrals for needed services (such as daycare needs, vocational needs or educational needs)

In the long run, these support groups can mean the difference between repeated relapse episodes and a successful recovery process.

Where do calls go?

Calls to numbers on a specific treatment center listing will be routed to that treatment center. Calls to any general helpline will be answered or returned by one of the treatment providers listed, each of which is a paid advertiser: ARK Behavioral Health, Recovery Helpline, Alli Addiction Services.

By calling the helpline you agree to the terms of use. We do not receive any commission or fee that is dependent upon which treatment provider a caller chooses. There is no obligation to enter treatment.

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