RiverMend Health Centers

Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a pattern of alcohol use that involves continued drinking even when it causes problems. Alcoholism is also characterized by a physical dependence on alcohol, which causes the body to experience withdrawal symptoms when alcohol is not present. Due to this physical dependence, medically-supervised detox is often necessary to safely recover from alcoholism. Alcohol rehab in Georgia offers a three-step process of detox, rehab, and maintenance to help individuals recover from alcohol addiction.

Drug Addiction

A quality drug rehab in Georgia can help you overcome addiction. This environment is designed to help you address the complex issues contributing to drug dependence. The goal of treatment is to give you the tools you need to make a full recovery.

Dual Diagnosis

In Georgia, specialized dual-diagnosis addiction treatment programs address co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health conditions. Care levels include outpatient, inpatient, and partial hospitalization. Therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy, or dialectical behavioral therapy, equine therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, skills training, and recovery groups — like 12-step — support you in achieving sobriety and sustaining recovery. Developing the tools to establish a solid support system (or strengthen an existing one) will also increase your chances of long-term recovery success.

Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Dual-diagnosis rehabs in Georgia can help to support individuals struggling with both mental health and substance abuse through holistic treatment programs that address both issues simultaneously. Co-occurring disorder treatment typically includes counseling, medication support, therapy, group sessions, and skills training. This integrated approach treats the whole person and improves recovery outcomes by equipping participants with the necessary skills to continue their recovery.

Opioid Addiction

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.

• Private insurance
• Self-pay options
• Monthly: $45,000

• Adolescence program
• Adult program
• LGBTQ program: RiverMend Health Centers is proud to be one of only a few addiction recovery centers in the nation to offer a safe, supportive and affirming environment for the LGBTQ communities. In addition to our comprehensive treatment programs for drug, alcohol abuse, and co-occurring mental health conditions, we offer an innovative addiction treatment program that centers around the unique needs of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender, and queer/questioning.
• Program for men
• Program for women
• Young adult program

Medically Assisted Detox

Medical detox is the process of ridding the body of addictive substances in a medically supervised setting. If you become chemically dependent on a substance like alcohol, opioids, or benzodiazepines (like Xanax or Ativan), quitting abruptly can cause uncomfortable or even dangerous side effects. Licensed medical professionals ensure the process goes as safely and comfortably as possible while monitoring you 24/7 and administering any required medications,

Intensive Outpatient

Clients enrolled in an intensive outpatient program (IOP) travel to treatment centers for specialized care multiple times per week. Intensive outpatient treatment allows clients to receive robust care while continuing to live at home. Most programs require between nine and 20 treatment hours per week, with the frequency and intensive of sessions decreasing as clients stabilize. Services generally include a combination of addiction counseling, medication assisted treatment (MAT), recovery-focused life skills training, and holistic therapies.

Inpatient

Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements.

12-Step

Participants in 12 step recovery programs focus on personal growth to address the emotional and psychological factors contributing to their addiction. 12 step recovery is rooted in spiritual development, but religious affiliation isn’t required. Regular group meetings and individualized support with the help of self-selected sponsors promote participants’ sobriety as they work through the 12 steps, gaining insight into their addiction, taking responsibility for their life choices, and releasing control over that which is uncontrollable.

Aftercare Support

At RiverMend Health Centers, they believe relapse prevention techniques are critical to long-term recovery success, which is why their expert team constructs relapse prevention programs, highly tailored to meet the individual lifestyle needs of every patient after their time with us. To prevent relapse, addiction must be treated as a chronic life threatening condition such as hypertension and diabetes. Lifelong addiction management is key. It must receive continuous attention and monitoring for years to come. RiverMend Health Centers offers treatment for up to 5 years, in decreasing doses and based on documented recovery with appropriate drug test results. They continuously assess their treatment plans to ensure maximum success and to prevent relapse.

Outpatient

Outpatient rehab enables clients to receive addiction treatment while continuing to work and reside at home. Many programs offer evening, night, and weekend services so that clients may receive treatment on their own schedule. Outpatient treatment modalities typically include addiction counseling, recovery-focused life skills training, and/or medication assisted treatment (MAT). Many programs also provide step-down care, including partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP), and standard outpatient services, to align with clients’ evolving needs.

Sober Living Homes

Sober living homes in Georgia offers an alternative to the abrupt change of moving from intensive treatment to an unstructured home environment. Men’s and women’s sober living homes replicate everyday life situations, but they do so in a sober environment while also reinforcing healthy habits. This reduces the chance of relapse. Individuals who could use extra support after rehab or don’t have a stable home environment can benefit from this transitional option.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a form of psychotherapy that takes a practical approach to changing maladaptive behavioral patterns like substance abuse. A central element of CBT at RiverMend Health Centers is exploring the different consequences and risks associated with drug use as well as developing strategies for coping with temptations. CBT explores an individual’s cognitive processes including attitudes, images, beliefs and thoughts to understand how they affect behaviors as a way of managing emotional distress. CBT is proven very effective in treating other behavioral health issues and a range of other problems that may co-occur alongside addiction.

Creative Arts Therapy

Creativity is inherently healing, and can help those in recovery express thoughts or feelings they might not otherwise be able to. Creative arts therapy can include music, poetry/writing, painting, sculpting, dance, theater, sandplay, and more. Unlike traditional art, the final product matters far less than the experience of creation and expression itself.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical behavior therapy is a cognitive behavioral treatment effective in treating substance abuse and dual disorders. DBT was originally developed to treat patients with borderline personality disorder, but has proved effective in helping a wide range of other disorders such as substance abuse, depression, eating disorder and more. DBT focuses on sets of behavioral skills including distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and mindfulness.

Experiential Therapy

At RiverMend Health Centers, they offer a variety of experiential therapies to help overcome substance abuse from all angles while also appeal to patient’s personal interests. Their experiential therapies include art therapy, expressive group, and yoga. Through experiential treatment techniques, patients can explore emotional, social, spiritual, and relational challenges through expressive means.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

EMDR is a therapeutic modality originally developed to help process trauma. In an EMDR session, a patient is prompted to undergo eye movements that mimic those of REM sleep. This is accomplished by watching a therapist's finger move back and forth across, or following a bar of light. The goal is repetitive sets of eye movements that help the brain reprocess memory, which can significantly reduce the intensity of remembered traumatic incidents. Associated memories can heal simultaneously, leaving patients significantly calmer, more stable, and more emotionally relaxed.

Family Therapy

Family members of loved ones using prescription drugs are profoundly affected by the addiction on a deeper level. At RiverMend Health Centers, they strongly encourage family member and friends to actively participate in their family program which allows loved ones to learn about prescription drug abuse, enabling triggers, and gain deeper insight into the disease. They also offer multi-family group sessions to foster connectedness with other families that have endured similar experiences. Through time, dedication, and understanding, trust and healing can be restored.

Group Therapy

In conjunction with individual therapy, group therapy work is a very powerful and transformative means to understand addiction and control it. Individuals strongly benefit from group therapy work because it helps them to see that they are not alone in their battle with substance abuse and dual disorders. One of the biggest challenges patients face in addiction treatment is feeling that they are worthy of recovery. Group therapy gives individuals a greater perspective on the power of addiction, which is powerfully therapeutic and cathartic.

Individual Therapy

At RiverMend Health Centers, individual and group therapy are conducted together to complement each other during addiction treatment for those battling substance abuse. Individual therapy provides individuals with a safe one-on-one environment to work on emotional and psychological challenges that might be too sensitive to discuss in group therapy. It provides a safe setting to address motivational issues that stands between you and sobriety. It allows individuals to look closely at his or her own behavioral patterns and the role that drugs have played in life.

Life Skills

Life skills trainings involve all the skills a person must have in order to function successfully in the world. These include time management, career guidance, money management, and effective communication. Truly successful addiction recovery is based on the ability to not only live substance-free, but to thrive. Life skills teaches the practical necessities of functioning in society, which sets clients up for success in life, and therefore sobriety.

Nutrition Therapy

Nutrition therapy, aka medical nutrition therapy (MNT), is a way of treating physical, emotional, and medical conditions through diet. Specific dietary plans are designed by professional nutritionists or registered dietitians, and patients follow them in order to positively affect their physical and mental health.

Trauma Therapy

Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.

• Yoga studio
• Private rooms
• Meditation room
• Massage room
• Art activities
• Acupuncture room