When you are looking for help with your addiction, your first instinct may be to balk at residential rehab. You may think of it as stigmatizing, disruptive, overkill or all three. You might dismiss the idea quickly, before it takes hold, and instead gather evidence for why you don’t need residential rehab. But that could be a mistake. After all, your goal is to get your life back, and the best way to do that is to make the choice most likely to deliver the outcome you want.
If you’re considering rehab, you already know you have a problem with alcohol or drugs (or both). You have likely tried cutting down or quitting on your own, without success. You may have even tried other rehab programs. Not getting the results you hoped for with your previous efforts may have made you feel like a failure, but the truth is that it’s extremely difficult to succeed in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction without the structure and support a residential program provides.
At Alpine Recovery Lodge, we provide PHP and IOP services — varying stages of outpatient care — to our clients who have completed our residential rehab program. We structure it this way because we know it works. Step 1 is tackling the problem head on with inpatient treatment, and the next steps slowly introduce more freedom and flexibility into your life — after you have learned how to cope with temptation and stressors.
One of the main reasons residential rehab works better than outpatient treatment is because it removes you from your environment and its negative influences. These negative influences can be friends and associates, family members, dealers or even bars, clubs, restaurants and liquor stores. If you’re hanging out with friends and everyone is drinking or using but you, it can be hard to resist joining in. If you live with others who regularly use drugs or alcohol, the temptation to use yourself is almost overwhelming.
Residential rehab removes you from all that and places you into a safe setting. We won’t sugarcoat it — detox is difficult — but the reason you can’t fail here is because you literally have no access to drugs or alcohol. So when you feel like you must have a drink or a hit or your dosage of choice, you simply aren’t able to.
And just as important: You have support available 24/7.
The key to success is not just that intoxicants are inaccessible here, it’s that we have a doctor, nurses and licensed therapists on staff who will help you through the hardest parts of detox and recovery. They will teach you coping strategies and show you that you have the strength and the ability to recover from your addiction and lead a rich and full life, even if you don’t feel that you do right now.
As much as we talk up residential rehab and the benefits of an intensive program that teaches you healthy habits and critical coping skills, you know that eventually you must return home and face the same temptations that you have been unable to resist. You may wonder how you will stop yourself from falling into the same unhealthy habits. And some people do. But the process you go through in residential rehab and the skills that you learn give you the best chance at maintaining resilience in the face of that type of adversity.
Success in rehab doesn’t only mean a lifetime of sobriety. AA has always taught adherents to fight their demons one day at a time. You might slip up. You might take a step or two back. But we teach you that as many steps as you take back, you can take more forward. It is possible.
Many people addicted to alcohol or drugs use them as an escape from their problems. These could include difficulties at work or school, chronic arguments with family members, money problems and issues dealing with loss such as separation, death and divorce. Many people suffer PTSD from situations such as abuse or neglect by parents or others, bullying or being ostracized from a school or friend group, military combat or experiencing a traumatic event such as a car accident or witnessing a violent crime. These events and memories don’t go away; the way to conquer their power over you is to learn how to cope and move through them. And we teach you how to do that.
Additionally, many people addicted to alcohol or drugs also suffer from a mental health condition. If you are undiagnosed, you may be using alcohol or drugs to cope with the sadness, fear and other negative emotions associated with depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder or personality disorders. At our residential rehab program, you may receive a dual diagnosis. This is when you are diagnosed with a mental health condition and a substance use disorder at the same time. Many other rehab facilities do not have a doctor on staff, and you must seek such a diagnosis elsewhere. But here at Alpine Recovery Lodge, our doctor is specifically trained to diagnose mental health conditions that present concurrently with a drug or alcohol addiction. You may be prescribed medication here for your mental health condition that will facilitate your recovery from drugs or alcohol, and it can make functioning in the real world without the help of drugs or alcohol easier.
If you want the best chance of getting control of your life back, contact us here at Alpine Recovery Lodge today. Even if you aren’t ready to enter residential rehab today, talk to us about our program and what we can do for you. The unknown breeds fear. Conquer this fear today by finding out more about our facility. And when you’re ready for change, we’ll be here to help.
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