Crossroads

About Crossroads

Carlsbad Mental Health Association – Crossroads in Carlsbad, New Mexico is a closed treatment facility that provided long term residential treatment programs for women and children. They offered 60, 90, and 120 day programming for intensive inpatient treatment. Services were provided on a sliding scale basis and were free for those who could not afford services.

A Unique Recovery Model

Crossroads was a unique facility in New Mexico. The team here allowed residents to bring up to two children as long as they were 10 years old or younger. They took a holistic approach to recovery and family life, addressing the realistic topics of parenting, career paths, life skills, and community orientation to help women understand how to re-integrate back into society.

They also discussed how to live a life free from drugs, and ways to cope with life’s stressors in a calmer and more healthy manner.

Strategic Partnerships

Crossroads worked hard to build strategic, supportive relationships with various service providers across the state. Their goal was to help serve the unique needs that the women in their care faced on a daily basis.

Addiction Treatments

Treatments

The goal of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. Those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders tend to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning. Recovery and Maintenance are usually based on 12 step programs and AA meetings.

Each drug rehab in New Mexico offers unique amenities and treatment methods. Common aspects of treatment include group and individual counseling, recreational therapy, medication management, and healthy living. Aftercare is often provided to prevent relapse.

Opioid rehabs specialize in supporting those recovering from opioid addiction. They treat those suffering from addiction to illegal opioids like heroin, as well as prescription drugs like oxycodone. These centers typically combine both physical as well as mental and emotional support to help stop addiction. Physical support often includes medical detox and subsequent medical support (including medication), and mental support includes in-depth therapy to address the underlying causes of addiction.

Substance rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from substance abuse, including alcohol and drug addiction (both illegal and prescription drugs). They often include the opportunity to engage in both individual as well as group therapy.

Programs

Adult Program

Adult rehab programs include therapies tailored to each client's specific needs, goals, and recovery progress. They are tailored to the specific challenges adult clients may face, including family and work pressures and commitments. From inpatient and residential treatment to various levels of outpatient services, there are many options available. Some facilities also help adults work through co-occurring conditions, like anxiety, that can accompany addiction.

Young Adult Program

Young adulthood can be an exciting, yet difficult, time of transition. Individuals in their late teens to mid-20s face unique stressors related to school, jobs, families, and social circles, which can lead to a rise in substance use. Rehab centers with dedicated young adult programs will include activities and amenities that cater to this age group, with an emphasis on specialized counseling, peer socialization, and ongoing aftercare.

Clinical Services

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.

Fact checked and written by:

Mary Jo Fleming, PhD

Edited by:

Courtney Myers, MS