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Drug and Alcohol Rehab

Detoxification

Detoxification usually takes a maximum of two weeks. During the course of this, a focal counsellor will be allocated to you. Together with your medical team, the counsellor will prepare an initial assessment of your particular needs, psychological state and circumstances. An on-going care plan is mounted on this basis.

Light involvement in the daily group therapy sessions is initiated and the concept of acceptance is addressed (Step One of the Twelve Step Programme).

Our philosophy is that addiction is an illness - patients are not bad people trying to be good but sick people trying to get well.

Qualified members of our counselling team facilitate these groups. Former patients who have successfully completed the treatment programme also offer support at this time.

These former patients, ('buddies') need to have graduated from the Project and maintained sobriety for a minimum of one year before coming back to work as volunteers. They also need to have regularly attended our Aftercare facility during that year.

Buddies

The buddies share their own experience of the process of detoxification and how they completed treatment and remained clean and sober. They also introduce newcomers to the various self-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous.

Accompanied attendance to these meetings commences at this stage. The buddy system provides both motivation and hope, helping to instil belief that success is possible and within grasp.

After completing detoxification, you will be presented with a certificate and inducted into the Second Stage of treatment.

The means used include:

• Group therapy sessions
• One-to-one counselling / psychotherapy
• Anger Management groups
• Peer evaluation reviews
• Goal setting
• Daily diary discussions
• Workshops on relapse prevention, anger management, relationships etc.
• Lectures and video presentations
• Nutritional guidance programmes
• Family sessions, women’s/men’s groups and other ‘special interest’ groups that are incorporated into the programme.

Therapy continues along the same format as in Stage 2, but with increasing emphasis on reality - that of the past and the here and now and how these can be translated into a meaningful and socially acceptable future.

The principal at the core of this is your personal responsibility for your own recovery through self-acceptance.

Relapse prevention

Relapse prevention is emphasised and there are regular one-to-one sessions in which our specialist counsellor targets your early introjections, the baggage carried into addiction.

Whilst it is not possible to take psychotherapy to its full term in the time allowed by the programme, our method initiates this process to enable identification of areas of personality dysfunction that require on-going attention by you.

This aspect of our work is interfaced with the Twelve Step disease concept and you will be shown how these work in tandem.

The thrust of the programme up to this point has been trust in the self and others, reality, responsibility and acceptance through self-examination with the means to bring these into being.

Their application in practice forms an integral part of this stage of treatment. The first instance of this is in-house: at this stage you will work with new arrivals as a preliminary to the buddy system described at Stage One.

To facilitate progress, we have has forged links with:

• Government agencies
• Other voluntary agencies and local drug and alcohol services
• Colleges for further education
• Local Businesses
• Job Centres

You will be encouraged to use these contacts for an immediate or eventual return to the workplace in a planned way, specific to their needs and capabilities.

During this time, attendance at evening and weekend Twelve Step fellowship meetings continues and an in-house workshop on Steps Six to Twelve is built into the programme structure.

At the end of Stage Three you will be awarded a formal graduation medallion to commemorate successful completion of the full-time programme.

Before leaving this Stage, the Project investigates whether provision has been made for adequate housing conducive to on-going recovery. 

If appropriate or necessary, we will make arrangements on your behalf through our contacts with various local authorities, halfway houses and housing associations to ensure the return to a healthy environment wherever possible.

This package includes:

• Weekly group therapy sessions for a minimum of one year (longer if desired or required)

• On-going acupuncture, affirmation, reflection and meditation groups, attendance at some workshops, graduation ceremonies and reunions

• Continuation of one-to-one psychotherapy sessions as required

• Couple and/or family counselling

• Workshops on all aspects of the Twelve Steps of the various fellowships

• Advice on problems surrounding attendance, and the gentle monitoring and encouragement of continuing presence at Twelve Step fellowship meetings

• Help with 'move-on' accommodation

• Access to our medical and legal surgeries

• Information on our advice centre service which helps with issues including housing, benefits, work placements, business start-up advice, family related problems; and points clients in the direction of legal and accounting sectors and services such as The Citizen's Advice Bureau

• Drop-in sessions on topics of general interest are routinely scheduled

• Use of office facilities and equipment to keep abreast of current events, compose CV's and attend to correspondence

• On going review of leaving plans, their success in action, encouragement, and reappraisal of goals and progress

• Court support

After a year free of substance abuse:

• Encouragement to join the buddy scheme (see Stage One)