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Alcohol
and Drug Treatment
At Transitions
Recovery,
drug treatment and
alcoholism treatment address the holistic
well-being of each patient. Individually
tailored programs draw from the medical,
psychological, therapeutic, and self-help
fields with the goal of helping the patient
achieve and sustain long-term sobriety,
free from substance abuse.
Components that may
be included in an individual’s drug or alcoholism treatment
program are determined on an ongoing basis
according to comprehensive evaluations
that take place at admissions and continuously
throughout drug treatment. Based on evaluations
at our drug treatment center, an individual’s
program might include the following drug
treatment elements:
- Disease
and recovery education through lectures
and
meetings.
- Participation
in 12-Step programs.
- Relapse
prevention groups.
- One-on-one
drug treatment counseling.
- Group
therapy and counseling.
- Gender-specific
groups.
- Specialized
dual diagnosis evaluation and treatment.
- Specialty
therapy or groups for specific areas
of concern and dual
diagnosis treatment: eating
disorders,
depression,
anxiety,
sexual
addiction,
and trauma
and abuse.
- The
Family
Program provides
an opportunity for
family members to participate
in the drug treatment
process.
- Introduction
to community resources.
- Legal
system advocacy when needed.
Reality-Based Alcohol and Drug Treatment
Center
Patients
begin the journey to freedom from substance
abuse in the care of highly skilled
staff at
our North Miami Beach, Florida, drug rehab
center.
While
a resident in our Extended
Care Program, patients are responsible for the day-to-day
tasks
of a normal living routine - including grocery
shopping, cooking, and maintaining the cleanliness
of living quarters, all monitored by drug
treatment center staff. Combined with effective
drug treatment and alcohol abuse treatment,
an emphasis on reality-based tasks aids patients
in successful reentry to daily life after
exiting the drug and alcoholism treatment
center.
Drug Treatment
Aftercare
Patients
receive extensive attention to continuing
care throughout the drug treatment process
to prevent relapse and support the patient
in staying sober. It is crucial that
the
patient grasp the importance of integrating
12-Step meetings and lifetime aftercare
for continued recovery in all aspects
of life: family relationships, spirituality,
social, medical, physical fitness and
nutrition,
vocational and educational, financial,
and also legal areas in many cases. The 12 Steps and the 12 Traditions of Alcoholics
Anonymous have been effectively adopted by
many self-help organizations, and these steps
and principles play a large part in the recovery
process at Transitions Recovery.
The
12 Steps (Adapted from the Big Book
of Alcoholics Anonymous)
| 1. |
We admitted we
were powerless over ****—that
our lives had become unmanageable. |
| 2. |
Came to believe that a Power greater
than ourselves could restore us to sanity. |
| 3. |
Made a decision
to turn our will and our lives over
to the care of God, as we understood
Him. |
| 4. |
Made a searching and fearless moral
inventory of ourselves. |
| 5. |
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and
to another human being the exact nature
of our wrongs. |
| 6. |
Were entirely ready to have God remove
all these defects of character. |
| 7. |
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. |
| 8. |
Made a list of all persons we had harmed
and became willing to make amends to
them all. |
| 9. |
Made direct amends to such people wherever
possible, except when to do so would
injure them or others. |
| 10. |
Continued to take personal inventory
and when we were wrong, promptly admitted
it. |
| 11. |
Sought through prayer and meditation
to improve our conscious contact with
God, as we understood Him, praying only
for knowledge of His will for us and
the power to carry that out. |
| 12. |
Having had a spiritual awakening as
the result of these Steps, we tried to
carry this message to others and to practice
these principles in all our affairs. |
****Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco, Codependency,
Food, Sex, Work, Money, Power, Religion,
Gambling, Excitement, People, Places, Things,
etc.
The 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous
| 1. |
Our common welfare should
come first; personal recovery depends
upon AA unity. |
| 2. |
For our group
purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a
loving God, as He may express Himself
in our
group conscience. Our leaders are but
trusted servants; they do not govern. |
| 3. |
The only requirement for AA membership
is a desire to stop drinking. |
| 4. |
Each group should be autonomous except
in matters affecting other groups or
AA as a whole. |
| 5. |
Each
group has but one primary purpose—to
carry its message to the alcoholic
who still suffers. |
| 6. |
An AA group ought never endorse, finance,
or lend the AA name to any related facility
or outside enterprise, lest problems
of money, property, and prestige divert
us from our primary purpose. |
| 7. |
Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting,
declining outside contributions. |
| 8. |
Alcoholics Anonymous should remain
forever nonprofessional, but our service
centers may employ special workers. |
| 9. |
AA, as such, ought never be organized,
but we may create service boards or committees
directly responsible to those they serve. |
| 10. |
Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion
on outside issues; hence, the AA name
ought never be drawn into public controversy. |
| 11. |
Our public relations policy is based
on attraction rather than promotion;
we need always maintain personal anonymity
at the level of press, radio, and films. |
| 12. |
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation
of all our Traditions, ever reminding
us to place principles before personalities. |
Drug
treatment aftercare support
groups both at our Florida drug treatment
center and external groups play an important
role in overcoming substance abuse and dual
diagnosis. All Transitions Recovery drug
treatment center psychiatric and psychological
services remain
available to patients for life, including
continued relapse prevention education and
24-hour access to drug treatment center staff. Read
more about how our drug
and alcoholism treatment programs demonstrate
every day our commitment to
excellence as a drug treatment center. |
