Clients completing this type of treatment are ready for return to normal functioning with some continuing aftercare treatment. Whether returning to the community from in-patient treatment or completing intensive outpatient, clients generally need a structured group experience to assist them in regaining a normal, sober lifestyle. These twice per week groups focus on the issues of staying sober and building a good, permanent recovery program. For an increasing number of clients addiction is very much complicated by a co-existing mental illness. Frequently, this combination of illnesses cause treatment in one area to be unsucessful because the other area is untreated.
Some psychtropic medicines can make addictive problems worse.
We offer a full range of assessment and treatment services for these clients. Intensive treatment focuses on management skills in both addiction and mental illness, and aftercare helps make this management work to break the cycle of relapse and hospitalization. Residential services are also used to help provide stability and structure which these dually challenged clients so much need. Special Treatment Groups Special needs emerge in the treatment of chemical dependency which call for group treatment aimed at a specific population. We operate such groups for women, men, and felony DWI offenders.