Valley Healthcare System – ACT Unit - Fairmont, WV

About the Facility

Valley Healthcare System–ACT Unit, in Fairmont, West Virginia, is a comprehensive drug and alcohol rehab for adults. They offer dual diagnosis care, inpatient care, and aftercare planning and support. Their primary treatment modalities include 12 step focused psychotherapy combined with evidence based complementary care and recovery focused life skills training.

Valley Healthcare System–ACT Unit is a comprehensive, 12 step focused addiction recovery center for adults in Fairmont, West Virginia providing inpatient care and aftercare planning and support. Specialized services for young adults and persons with co-occurring addiction and mental health disorders are available.

The inpatient program at Valley Healthcare System–ACT Unit enables clients to focus on their recovery in a private, home like setting. Clients engage in intensive, trauma informed, CBT based counseling, including individual, group, and family therapy. Their personalized treatment plans also include evidence based complementary therapies, such as recreational therapy. They also prioritize sustained sobriety through recovery focused life skills training, including courses in coping, anger and stress management, self care, wellness, and relapse prevention.

Valley Healthcare System–ACT Unit’s aftercare services are designed to ensure a robust continuum of care to facilitate long term recovery and promote clients’ successful reintegration into their homes, workplaces, and communities. Services may include 12 step program induction, sober living and outpatient program transition assistance, career counseling, peer coaching, and medical, mental health, and social services referrals.

Valley Healthcare System–ACT Unit is state licensed and accredited by SAMHSA. They accept private insurance, military insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, financing, and self pay. Sliding scale payment assistance is available.

Accreditations

SAMHSA

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Established in 1992 by congress, SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on American's communities.

SAMHSA Listed: Yes

State License

State Licenses are permits issued by government agencies that allow rehab organizations to conduct business legally within a certain geographical area. Typically, the kind of program a rehab facility offers, along with its physical location, determines which licenses are required to operate legally.

State License: West Virginia

Treatment

Alcoholism

When a person struggles with alcoholism, they have become dependent on alcohol and require treatment to overcome the addiction. Alcohol rehab in West Virginia teaches you new coping skills and helps you process emotional issues related to drinking. Medications may also be provided to help control the alcohol addiction and maintain sobriety.

Drug Addiction

Drug addiction causes psychological and physical damage through repeated and uncontrollable use of substances. Drug rehab in West Virginia focuses on providing a full continuum of care, from detox to aftercare, and treatment can take place in outpatient or inpatient settings, based on your needs.

Dual Diagnosis

In West Virginia, dual-diagnosis addiction treatment programs provide specialized care for individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health conditions. These programs offer a full continuum of care, including detox, outpatient, inpatient, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization options. Treatment includes individual and group therapy, medication management, experiential therapy, skills training, and relational counseling.

Mental Health and Substance Abuse

If you're in West Virginia and in need of help for both mental health and substance abuse, dual-diagnosis rehabs offer comprehensive care designed to meet your specific needs. These rehab programs combine evidence-based therapies such as cognitive-behavioral therapy to reframe unhelpful patterns, dialectical behavior therapy to improve emotional regulation, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to overcome trauma. This trauma-informed approach addresses both disorders and promotes mental health and well-being.

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.

Insurance and Financial

Medicaid
Private insurance
Self-pay options
Financial aid
Financing available
Sliding scale payment assistance
Military insurance
Medicare
Daily

Programs

Adult program
Program for men
Program for women
Total beds: 12
Young adult program

Levels of Care

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.

Aftercare Support

Completing a drug or alcohol rehab program shouldn't spell the end of substance abuse treatment. Aftercare involves making a sustainable plan for recovery, including ongoing support. This can include sober living arrangements like halfway houses, career counseling, and setting a patient up with community programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA).

Clinical Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse.

Group Therapy

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.

Individual Therapy

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school 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.

Recreational Therapy

Recreational therapy (aka therapeutic recreation) uses creative and fun activities to help with addiction recovery. Recreational therapists lead patients in entertaining and engaging activities like sports or games; art (drawing, painting, sculpture); drama, music, and dance; and/or community outings (field trips) to improve patients' physical, social, and emotional well-being.