Addiction Treatment Centers in Brooklyn, NY

Urban Recovery
Treatment Center
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Urban Recovery is the only private, freestanding inpatient addiction treatment center in New York City. Located in the Red Hook Section of Brooklyn we provide compassionate care using evidence based therapies and medication assisted treatment. Each client's program is individualized to meet their needs. Our services include inpatient medically supervised detox and residential treatment with variable lengths of stay. Our experienced staff includes an addiction medicine internist, an addiction psychiatrist, psychologists, social workers, nurse practioners, registered nurses and a dietitian. We integrate wellness into treatment and provide art therapy, music therapy, fitness training, massage, acupuncture, biofeedback and yoga. If you think you might have a problem with alcohol or drug use, please call us today for a consultation at (646) 960-6656
Urban Recovery is the only private, freestanding inpatient addiction treatment center in New York City. Located in the Red Hook Section of Brooklyn we provide compassionate care using evidence based therapies and medication assisted treatment. Each client's program is individualized to meet their needs. Our services include inpatient medically supervised detox and residential treatment with variable lengths of stay. Our experienced staff includes an addiction medicine internist, an addiction psychiatrist, psychologists, social workers, nurse practioners, registered nurses and a dietitian. We integrate wellness into treatment and provide art therapy, music therapy, fitness training, massage, acupuncture, biofeedback and yoga. If you think you might have a problem with alcohol or drug use, please call us today for a consultation at (646) 960-6656
(347) 970-7426 View (347) 970-7426
The Safe Foundation
Treatment Center
Brooklyn, NY 11223
The Safe Foundation supports individuals seeking recovery from drugs, alcohol, and gambling, offering compassionate, evidence-based care tailored to their needs.
The Safe Foundation provides person-centered treatment tailored to your unique needs and goals. Our services include individual and group therapy, as well as family work within an addiction framework. Using evidence-based approaches like CBT, DBT, REBT, Motivational Interviewing, and Medication-Assisted Treatment, our compassionate team empowers you and your loved ones to heal, build healthier relationships, and achieve lasting recovery.
The Safe Foundation supports individuals seeking recovery from drugs, alcohol, and gambling, offering compassionate, evidence-based care tailored to their needs.
The Safe Foundation provides person-centered treatment tailored to your unique needs and goals. Our services include individual and group therapy, as well as family work within an addiction framework. Using evidence-based approaches like CBT, DBT, REBT, Motivational Interviewing, and Medication-Assisted Treatment, our compassionate team empowers you and your loved ones to heal, build healthier relationships, and achieve lasting recovery.
(929) 565-5295 View (929) 565-5295
Realization Center
Treatment Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Since 1984, Realization Center has been providing the most effective holistic patient-centered care for people in trouble…with substances… with relationships… with themselves.
Our caring multi-disciplinary treatment team consists of Psychiatrists, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselors, and Peer Advocates to ensure quality care in a safe and supportive environment.
Since 1984, Realization Center has been providing the most effective holistic patient-centered care for people in trouble…with substances… with relationships… with themselves.
Our caring multi-disciplinary treatment team consists of Psychiatrists, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselors, and Peer Advocates to ensure quality care in a safe and supportive environment.
(646) 718-5741 View (646) 718-5741
Rainbow Hill Recovery
Treatment Center
Serves Area
At Rainbow Hill Recovery, our approach to supporting individuals within the LGBTQ+ community who are dealing with substance use is rooted in love, compassion, empathy, and heart.
At Rainbow Hill Recovery, we understand the unique challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community, and we are here to provide a space that celebrates and affirms your identity. We aim to create an inclusive and nurturing atmosphere where you can explore your personal growth and recovery. Our program is designed to empower you and celebrate your authentic self, ensuring that your specific needs and experiences are respected and valued. You will be embraced by our dedicated team, whose members are passionate about helping you overcome the obstacles on your path to healing. When you choose Rainbow Hill Recovery, you become part of our Rainbow Hill Family. Our warm and welcoming team is here to provide you with the care, guidance, and understanding you need to achieve lasting recovery. We honor and celebrate your journey and are committed to empowering you to live a life of sobriety, joy, and fulfillment.
At Rainbow Hill Recovery, our approach to supporting individuals within the LGBTQ+ community who are dealing with substance use is rooted in love, compassion, empathy, and heart.
At Rainbow Hill Recovery, we understand the unique challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community, and we are here to provide a space that celebrates and affirms your identity. We aim to create an inclusive and nurturing atmosphere where you can explore your personal growth and recovery. Our program is designed to empower you and celebrate your authentic self, ensuring that your specific needs and experiences are respected and valued. You will be embraced by our dedicated team, whose members are passionate about helping you overcome the obstacles on your path to healing. When you choose Rainbow Hill Recovery, you become part of our Rainbow Hill Family. Our warm and welcoming team is here to provide you with the care, guidance, and understanding you need to achieve lasting recovery. We honor and celebrate your journey and are committed to empowering you to live a life of sobriety, joy, and fulfillment.
(424) 552-1541 View (424) 552-1541
Rock Recovery Center
Treatment Center
Serves Area
An Addiction Treatment Program using Adventure Therapy combined with Physical Fitness.
Structured Housing, Meal Plans, Fitness Programs, Adventure Therapy.
An Addiction Treatment Program using Adventure Therapy combined with Physical Fitness.
Structured Housing, Meal Plans, Fitness Programs, Adventure Therapy.
(561) 531-5709 View (561) 531-5709
Drug & Alcohol Detox | Pocono Mountain
Treatment Center
Serves Area
Located in northeastern Pennsylvania, Pocono Mountain Recovery Center offers up a kind, caring, and thriving environment for adult women and men to obtain the treatment they need to kick start their recovery from addiction to drugs and/or alcohol.
When individuals are grappling with addictions to alcohol and/or drugs, it can be challenging for them to stop their dangerous and potentially deadly behaviors. When potent substances have been abused for a long period of time and then use is suddenly stopped, individuals are likely to suffer a painful withdrawal. The symptoms that develop in response to the withdrawal process can be so upsetting that they cause individuals to abuse their substance of choice again, which can reduce all symptoms of their suffering, but will perpetuate their addiction. In order for many individuals to be effective in ending relapse, it can be extremely beneficial for them to obtain detoxification, or detox, services so that the substances they are putting into their bodies can be removed from their systems for good. Not only is detoxing safe, but individuals who participate in this service are able to see a decrease in the withdrawal symptoms they experience. Patients within a detox setting are surrounded by professionals on a 24/7 basis, who help ensure their safety and comfort during this process. Therefore, individuals can have dangerous substances removed from their bodies in a safe manner prior to beginning more intensive therapeutic care.
Located in northeastern Pennsylvania, Pocono Mountain Recovery Center offers up a kind, caring, and thriving environment for adult women and men to obtain the treatment they need to kick start their recovery from addiction to drugs and/or alcohol.
When individuals are grappling with addictions to alcohol and/or drugs, it can be challenging for them to stop their dangerous and potentially deadly behaviors. When potent substances have been abused for a long period of time and then use is suddenly stopped, individuals are likely to suffer a painful withdrawal. The symptoms that develop in response to the withdrawal process can be so upsetting that they cause individuals to abuse their substance of choice again, which can reduce all symptoms of their suffering, but will perpetuate their addiction. In order for many individuals to be effective in ending relapse, it can be extremely beneficial for them to obtain detoxification, or detox, services so that the substances they are putting into their bodies can be removed from their systems for good. Not only is detoxing safe, but individuals who participate in this service are able to see a decrease in the withdrawal symptoms they experience. Patients within a detox setting are surrounded by professionals on a 24/7 basis, who help ensure their safety and comfort during this process. Therefore, individuals can have dangerous substances removed from their bodies in a safe manner prior to beginning more intensive therapeutic care.
(866) 759-9182 View (866) 759-9182
Transcend Recovery Community NYC
Treatment Center
Serves Area
Transcend Recovery Community has been helping clients build new lives since opening our first sober living home in Los Angeles in 2008. In addition to our men's sober living home in New York, we are now proud to offer a network of 6 sober living homes throughout the Los Angeles area, and men's and women's home in Houston, Texas. Built on a foundation of love, support, and acceptance, we are a sober living community intent to help others help themselves. Our Manhattan brownstone sober living home for men allows individuals to work towards their best life in a city of opportunity. Our impressive, multiple story brownstone, is only a few short blocks from Central Park and Riverside Park. Situated within a renowned cultural hub of New York, clients have easy access to numerous museums, restaurants, art galleries, and sports and music venues. At Transcend you are not alone. Begin your path to fulfillment and self-discovery in a community of brotherhood and camaraderie. Give one of our intake specialists a call to learn more about becoming a part of our recovery community.
Transcend Recovery Community has been helping clients build new lives since opening our first sober living home in Los Angeles in 2008. In addition to our men's sober living home in New York, we are now proud to offer a network of 6 sober living homes throughout the Los Angeles area, and men's and women's home in Houston, Texas. Built on a foundation of love, support, and acceptance, we are a sober living community intent to help others help themselves. Our Manhattan brownstone sober living home for men allows individuals to work towards their best life in a city of opportunity. Our impressive, multiple story brownstone, is only a few short blocks from Central Park and Riverside Park. Situated within a renowned cultural hub of New York, clients have easy access to numerous museums, restaurants, art galleries, and sports and music venues. At Transcend you are not alone. Begin your path to fulfillment and self-discovery in a community of brotherhood and camaraderie. Give one of our intake specialists a call to learn more about becoming a part of our recovery community.
(818) 446-2102 View (818) 446-2102
Ascendant New York
Treatment Center
Serves Area
At Ascendant New York, our goal is to provide a safe, professional, medically supervised environment that promotes healing from alcohol and substance abuse.
Clients will receive state of the art care in a serene environment located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. We welcome clients to involve their loved ones and outside providers such as doctors, psychiatrists and therapists in their treatment process. In terms of loved ones, we have found it beneficial for our clients to have the support of their families when starting their recovery journey. When it comes to providers, we have found that the continuation and continuity of care greatly increases clients' chances at long term success. This is the exact reason that we have dedicated clinical staff to communicating with our clients outside providers (when consent is provided by the client).
At Ascendant New York, our goal is to provide a safe, professional, medically supervised environment that promotes healing from alcohol and substance abuse.
Clients will receive state of the art care in a serene environment located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. We welcome clients to involve their loved ones and outside providers such as doctors, psychiatrists and therapists in their treatment process. In terms of loved ones, we have found it beneficial for our clients to have the support of their families when starting their recovery journey. When it comes to providers, we have found that the continuation and continuity of care greatly increases clients' chances at long term success. This is the exact reason that we have dedicated clinical staff to communicating with our clients outside providers (when consent is provided by the client).
(929) 203-9648 View (929) 203-9648
New York Center for Living
Treatment Center
Serves Area
New York Center For Living is dedicated to providing the latest evidence based treatment for teenagers, young adults, professionals and families facing substance use and mental health issues.
We understand how complicated it can be to find the treatment option that works best for you and your family. We offer several programs that are designed to accommodate your situation. NYCFL provides onsite psychiatry, medication management, individual therapy, outpatient groups, case management and recovery activities.
New York Center For Living is dedicated to providing the latest evidence based treatment for teenagers, young adults, professionals and families facing substance use and mental health issues.
We understand how complicated it can be to find the treatment option that works best for you and your family. We offer several programs that are designed to accommodate your situation. NYCFL provides onsite psychiatry, medication management, individual therapy, outpatient groups, case management and recovery activities.
(646) 921-6582 View (646) 921-6582
Mountainside Treatment Center
Treatment Center
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment can save your or a loved one’s life.
Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment can save your or a loved one’s life. No one should have to make the choice between their health and taking care of their family. At Mountainside New York City, you don’t have to. With a convenient location, flexible schedules, and personalized treatment programs, you can get the help you need to overcome your addiction while remaining at home and maintaining your daily responsibilities. Located in Manhattan, we are conveniently situated for any commuters from the five boroughs, as well as those near New Jersey, Connecticut, and Long Island.
Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment can save your or a loved one’s life.
Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment can save your or a loved one’s life. No one should have to make the choice between their health and taking care of their family. At Mountainside New York City, you don’t have to. With a convenient location, flexible schedules, and personalized treatment programs, you can get the help you need to overcome your addiction while remaining at home and maintaining your daily responsibilities. Located in Manhattan, we are conveniently situated for any commuters from the five boroughs, as well as those near New Jersey, Connecticut, and Long Island.
(646) 956-2147 View (646) 956-2147
Seek Counseling
Treatment Center
Brooklyn, NY 11209
Seek provides substance use disorder treatment for adults struggling with alcohol and drug addiction, along with co-occurring mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
Our Brooklyn outpatient rehab offers a safe and supportive atmosphere of hope and healing for adults to build a foundation in recovery while providing the tools needed for sustainable sobriety. Whether you're struggling with opioids, alcohol, or benzos, Seek is ready to help with evidence-based addiction treatment in Bay Ridge. Our Brooklyn substance use treatment professionals will collaborate with you to create an individualized treatment plan in a whole person approach. We'll tackle underlying root causes and teach you the tools to cope with life on life's terms and become the person you were meant to be!
Seek provides substance use disorder treatment for adults struggling with alcohol and drug addiction, along with co-occurring mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
Our Brooklyn outpatient rehab offers a safe and supportive atmosphere of hope and healing for adults to build a foundation in recovery while providing the tools needed for sustainable sobriety. Whether you're struggling with opioids, alcohol, or benzos, Seek is ready to help with evidence-based addiction treatment in Bay Ridge. Our Brooklyn substance use treatment professionals will collaborate with you to create an individualized treatment plan in a whole person approach. We'll tackle underlying root causes and teach you the tools to cope with life on life's terms and become the person you were meant to be!
(646) 970-1786 View (646) 970-1786
Aurora Wellness NC Telehealth Psychiatry
Treatment Center
1 Endorsed
Brooklyn, NY 11201
At Aurora Wellness, we work with individuals seeking clarity, support, and effective treatment for a wide range of psychiatric concerns. Many of our clients are navigating challenges such as depression, treatment-resistant depression, mood symptoms, anxiety, attention difficulties, trauma-related issues, or ongoing stress that impacts day-to-day functioning. They want a team that listens carefully, explains options clearly, and helps them feel more grounded and in control. Our goal is to understand each patient's needs and partner with them to move toward long-term stability and improvement.
At Aurora Wellness, we work with individuals seeking clarity, support, and effective treatment for a wide range of psychiatric concerns. Many of our clients are navigating challenges such as depression, treatment-resistant depression, mood symptoms, anxiety, attention difficulties, trauma-related issues, or ongoing stress that impacts day-to-day functioning. They want a team that listens carefully, explains options clearly, and helps them feel more grounded and in control. Our goal is to understand each patient's needs and partner with them to move toward long-term stability and improvement.
(646) 798-2367 View (646) 798-2367
Well Equipped
Treatment Center
Online Only
Well Equipped may be a good fit if you identify with any of the following experiences or diagnoses: Difficulty regulating emotions, Heightened sensitivity in relationships, Impulsive or reactive behaviors, self harm, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression or anxiety Disordered eating or Eating Disorders, Substance use challenges or History of trauma.
Well Equipped is a virtual DBT-based intensive program designed to help individuals learn and apply DBT skills to improve their everyday lives. If you’ve found that traditional outpatient therapy hasn’t led to the change you’re seeking, you may simply need more tools. Our program focuses on the application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to help you: Regulate emotions, Tolerate distress and Navigate Crisis, Improve communication and interpersonal skills and Replace unhelpful coping strategies with supportive, skillful ones. We’ll work closely with your current outpatient providers to ensure you receive comprehensive care.
Well Equipped may be a good fit if you identify with any of the following experiences or diagnoses: Difficulty regulating emotions, Heightened sensitivity in relationships, Impulsive or reactive behaviors, self harm, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression or anxiety Disordered eating or Eating Disorders, Substance use challenges or History of trauma.
Well Equipped is a virtual DBT-based intensive program designed to help individuals learn and apply DBT skills to improve their everyday lives. If you’ve found that traditional outpatient therapy hasn’t led to the change you’re seeking, you may simply need more tools. Our program focuses on the application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to help you: Regulate emotions, Tolerate distress and Navigate Crisis, Improve communication and interpersonal skills and Replace unhelpful coping strategies with supportive, skillful ones. We’ll work closely with your current outpatient providers to ensure you receive comprehensive care.
(347) 797-3751 View (347) 797-3751
Under Angel's Wings Recover Center
Treatment Center
Brooklyn, NY 11220
Under Angel's Wings Recovery Center is an OASAS certified Outpatient Substance Use Disorder treatment center.
Our treatment rooms are inviting, friendly spaces where you can relax and feel at ease while receiving treatment. Whether you're working on setting goals with your therapist, meeting with a loved one to be able to rebuild your support networks through family therapy or couple's counseling, or participating in an eye-opening group therapy session, our spaces are designed for comfort, safety, and privacy. Our clinic's storefront is located on a quiet street and is discretely marked. Our entrance is on the ground floor and level with the street, fully accessible for people using wheelchairs and other mobility devices.
Under Angel's Wings Recovery Center is an OASAS certified Outpatient Substance Use Disorder treatment center.
Our treatment rooms are inviting, friendly spaces where you can relax and feel at ease while receiving treatment. Whether you're working on setting goals with your therapist, meeting with a loved one to be able to rebuild your support networks through family therapy or couple's counseling, or participating in an eye-opening group therapy session, our spaces are designed for comfort, safety, and privacy. Our clinic's storefront is located on a quiet street and is discretely marked. Our entrance is on the ground floor and level with the street, fully accessible for people using wheelchairs and other mobility devices.
(718) 374-5484 View (718) 374-5484
Metamorphosis Psychotherapy NYC
Treatment Center
Brooklyn, NY 11222
We support individuals and couples navigating trauma, relationship challenges, intimacy concerns, identity exploration, and a desire for deeper emotional and somatic healing. Many of our clients feel disconnected from their bodies, overwhelmed by old patterns, or unsure how to create the relationships and inner safety they long for. We serve individuals, couples, and families of all backgrounds and hold a special commitment to LGBTQ+, BIPOC, multicultural, and non-traditional relationships seeking affirming, grounded therapeutic care. We provide a warm and collaborative therapeutic relationship that supports deep transformation.
We support individuals and couples navigating trauma, relationship challenges, intimacy concerns, identity exploration, and a desire for deeper emotional and somatic healing. Many of our clients feel disconnected from their bodies, overwhelmed by old patterns, or unsure how to create the relationships and inner safety they long for. We serve individuals, couples, and families of all backgrounds and hold a special commitment to LGBTQ+, BIPOC, multicultural, and non-traditional relationships seeking affirming, grounded therapeutic care. We provide a warm and collaborative therapeutic relationship that supports deep transformation.
(347) 970-8568 View (347) 970-8568
The Expansive Group
Treatment Center
Brooklyn, NY 11216
We're here because we've been there, so we can't help but to be wholeheartedly invested in your journey. We want to provide you the warmth, validation, and affirmation that can feel so rare in adulthood. Working with us will challenge you, but it will also feel like coming home.
We're here because we've been there, so we can't help but to be wholeheartedly invested in your journey. We want to provide you the warmth, validation, and affirmation that can feel so rare in adulthood. Working with us will challenge you, but it will also feel like coming home.
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At Aurora Wellness, we work with individuals seeking clarity, support, and effective treatment for a wide range of psychiatric concerns. Many of our clients are navigating challenges such as depression, treatment-resistant depression, mood symptoms, anxiety, attention difficulties, trauma-related issues, or ongoing stress that impacts day-to-day functioning. They want a team that listens carefully, explains options clearly, and helps them feel more grounded and in control. Our goal is to understand each patient's needs and partner with them to move toward long-term stability and improvement.
At Aurora Wellness, we work with individuals seeking clarity, support, and effective treatment for a wide range of psychiatric concerns. Many of our clients are navigating challenges such as depression, treatment-resistant depression, mood symptoms, anxiety, attention difficulties, trauma-related issues, or ongoing stress that impacts day-to-day functioning. They want a team that listens carefully, explains options clearly, and helps them feel more grounded and in control. Our goal is to understand each patient's needs and partner with them to move toward long-term stability and improvement.
(845) 218-7054 View (845) 218-7054
Cambridge Recovery Sober Living
Treatment Center
Serves Area
Cambridge Recovery Sober Living offers an affordable, luxury sober home for men who are committed to continuing their journey of overcoming alcohol and drug addictions.
At Cambridge Recover Sober Living, our mission is to help individuals recover in a safe and supportive sober living environment, and to help them transition into a fulfilling and independent life of sober living.
Cambridge Recovery Sober Living offers an affordable, luxury sober home for men who are committed to continuing their journey of overcoming alcohol and drug addictions.
At Cambridge Recover Sober Living, our mission is to help individuals recover in a safe and supportive sober living environment, and to help them transition into a fulfilling and independent life of sober living.
(908) 402-7233 View (908) 402-7233
Counseling Center Group
Treatment Center
Serves Area
The clinicians at The Counseling Center of Group use an array of techniques to help enhance the quality of life for individuals, couples, groups, and families. Through our strength-based and collaborative approach, we offer new insights that enable our clients to see things from different perspectives. We provide treatment and counseling for anxiety, depression, grief, emotional regulation issues, self-esteem, relationship concerns, and parenting. The Counseling Center Group utilizes evidence based strategies to help empower our clients to make choices that generate positive changes in their lives. Together, we will look at feelings, thoughts and behaviors as vehicles to affirmative changes. Our clinicians use techniques from empirically proven interventions including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Gottman therapy, cyclical psychodynamics, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), Mindfulness and others.
The clinicians at The Counseling Center of Group use an array of techniques to help enhance the quality of life for individuals, couples, groups, and families. Through our strength-based and collaborative approach, we offer new insights that enable our clients to see things from different perspectives. We provide treatment and counseling for anxiety, depression, grief, emotional regulation issues, self-esteem, relationship concerns, and parenting. The Counseling Center Group utilizes evidence based strategies to help empower our clients to make choices that generate positive changes in their lives. Together, we will look at feelings, thoughts and behaviors as vehicles to affirmative changes. Our clinicians use techniques from empirically proven interventions including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Gottman therapy, cyclical psychodynamics, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), Mindfulness and others.
(240) 716-6836 View (240) 716-6836
Nasiha Counseling
Treatment Center
Online Only
Counseling can be a meaningful way to address some of life's challenges you are facing or have been facing for a long time. As therapists, we provide support and feedback to help you cope with current life challenges and long-standing issues. With compassion and sensitivity, we can help you explore, understand, and find resolutions to a wide range of personal concerns and psychological issues. In counseling you can also work with someone to come up with specific behavioral strategies and new ways of thinking by taking into consideration all that unique qualities that make you who you are including your beliefs, religious practices, culture and ethnicity, and traditional coping. With a wide range of clinical interventions and treatment approaches, we develop goals that are most helpful and tailored for each individual client (adult, teen, adolescent, or child), family, and couple based on their presenting concerns and needs. In a supportive and understanding environment, we can help you attain personal growth. Together with each client, we work to enhance your strengths and achieve your personal goals.
Counseling can be a meaningful way to address some of life's challenges you are facing or have been facing for a long time. As therapists, we provide support and feedback to help you cope with current life challenges and long-standing issues. With compassion and sensitivity, we can help you explore, understand, and find resolutions to a wide range of personal concerns and psychological issues. In counseling you can also work with someone to come up with specific behavioral strategies and new ways of thinking by taking into consideration all that unique qualities that make you who you are including your beliefs, religious practices, culture and ethnicity, and traditional coping. With a wide range of clinical interventions and treatment approaches, we develop goals that are most helpful and tailored for each individual client (adult, teen, adolescent, or child), family, and couple based on their presenting concerns and needs. In a supportive and understanding environment, we can help you attain personal growth. Together with each client, we work to enhance your strengths and achieve your personal goals.
(646) 571-0529 View (646) 571-0529

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Addiction Treatment Centers
What is the best therapy for addiction?
Addiction treatment will be tailored to the individual. People seeking help for addiction—whether with a psychotherapist, in an outpatient clinic, or in a residential program—should expect to engage in multiple types of treatments, sometimes including medication. For anyone recovering from addiction, avoiding situations in which one has typically used a substance is essential, as is the support of close connections. Since substance use disorders tend to co-occur with underlying mental health conditions such as anxiety or depression, those must also be addressed as part of any recovery plan.

How long does therapy for addiction take?
There is no set timeline for recovery from addiction. Patients and their families should expect the work to last several months, if not longer. Residential treatment programs may be based on a stay of 30, 60, or 90 days, with continuing work after release, but only about 1 percent of people are treated in such facilities. Ceasing use is just the first step; therapy to help maintain abstinence and effect behavior change must follow. The process of recovery, neuroscience has shown, involves brain cells recovering the capacity to respond to natural sources of reward and restore control over the impulse to use. Another definition of recovery is restoring voluntary control over one’s substance use and retaking all of one’s previous responsibilities.

How effective is drug addiction treatment?
Substance use disorders are treatable and remission is achievable for many who seek recovery; by some estimates, more than three-quarters of people who become addicted to alcohol or drugs recover. But that success rarely occurs quickly or on a set timeline; relapse is not only common, but many therapists and clinicians view it as a normal part of the process—not always a sign that a person has returned to addiction, but a signal that their treatment should be adjusted to help them regain control. Overall, research suggests, five years after the end of substance use, one’s risk of relapse is no greater than that of others who had not faced addiction. Other experts believe that complete abstinence is not the only measure of recovery, and that, through effective treatment, many people can learn to control their use.

How can you get addiction treatment for someone?
The most important factor in recovery from addiction is widely understood to be an individual’s commitment to change. For that reason,“interventions” in which friends and family gather to urge or force someone to begin immediate treatment often backfire; even when such efforts do lead someone to begin treatment, they may be less likely to stay than those who are self-driven. Still, family members can play an important role in supporting an individual who seeks help and can take part in family therapy as one element of a loved one’s treatment.