RECOVERY programs at our facility
*Speak with a local Program Manager for help finding the right
program for you 912-205-6337
*Speak with a local Program Manager for help finding the right program for you
(912) 205-6337
PROFESSIONAL EXECUTIVE PROGRAM
The Assisted Recovery Center of Georgia offers programs designed especially for medical, legal, and business professionals. Our programs offer professionals immediate and highly confidential access to our individualized, evidence-based treatment for chemical dependency ranging from alcohol to prescription pain medication and drugs. Many professionals view addiction to alcohol or drugs as a problem that could cost them their job and derail their professional career. They fear that seeking help through their employer or professional assistance program could put their career in jeopardy. Some treatment programs can be rigid and punitive, involving mandatory inpatient treatment and outpatient aftercare programs lasting up to five years.
The cost of the treatment can run into the tens of thousands of dollars, and cause long periods of absence from work or school for up to one year. The fear of major financial expense for treatment, a loss of income, increased stress on loved ones, and being away from home for several months will often force professionals to hide the problem until it is too late. In many instances, a professional is caught in the act of using, and turned in by a co-worker or supervisor. This leaves the affected individual with few options, and it typically forces the affected individual into mandated treatment or a forced resignation. But it does not have to be that way.
INDIVIDUALLY TAILORED FOR PROFESSIONALS:
We have a viable option to seek treatment before the problem becomes unmanageable. Our Confidential Treatment Program for Professionals is a comprehensive treatment program that incorporates a medical detoxification, anti-craving medications, psychiatric treatment, cognitive behavioral therapy, and relapse prevention counseling. The treatment is delivered as an outpatient treatment program with individual, group, and family counseling sessions conveniently scheduled in the evenings and on weekends to minimize disruption of your professional and personal life.
This Program includes
Screening, Intake, Orientation to our services
Physical Assessment by a physician or nurse practitioner
Clinical Assessment including a Bio-Psycho-Socio Assessment
Individualized Treatment Planning with an interdisciplinary staff
Non-12-Step group therapy session twice weekly facilitated by a therapist ( available but not required)
Initial Laboratory fees
Individual Therapy with a licensed therapist for 5 hours per week
IN-SUITE MEDICAL DETOX (AMBULATORY)
This is a program for clients who need medical intervention to eliminate alcohol or drugs from his or her body. This medical detox is performed in a private room. Medications and other interventions are provided by specially trained, licensed nurses under physician supervision to help clients manage the symptoms of withdrawal. After completion of this program, the client and family will have the opportunity to participate in one of our outpatient treatment programs. To participate in this program, clients must be medically stable with no history of seizures, not currently pregnant, do not have acute hepatitis, uncontrolled hypertension, or any other uncontrolled mental or physical illness. This also includes no history of violence towards self or others.
This Program includes:
Screening, Intake, Orientation to our services
Physical Assessment by a physician or nurse practitioner
Individualized Treatment Planning with an interdisciplinary staff
Pharmacotherapy
Nursing services at least three times a day
Screening Laboratory fees
Cost of detox medications
DAY TREATMENT | ACCELERATED PROGRAM
This program was developed in response to numerous requests from individuals outside of the Savannah area, and because this type of therapy program is only offered in a small number of locations in the U.S. The accelerated program incorporates as much of our outpatient as possible into a two-week outpatient program. Individuals in the Savannah area who need to jump-start their recovery or stabilize any physical or mental health problems can utilize this program as well. Out-of-town clients who will not be able to participate in a 3-month outpatient service can also utilize this program. This program includes individual and group therapy along with daily group activities at our offices. The day program meets for a minimum of 3 hours per day and is facilitated by a licensed therapist with additional support from our registered nurses. Each client will attend the day program, meet with an individual therapist, and attend the evening sessions.
Clients who would be best suited for this program:
Have none to manageable medical conditions that would not be a distraction from treatment
Have none to mild emotional, behavioral, or cognitive conditions that would require stabilization
Has poor participation in treatment, significant ambivalence or lack of awareness of the substance abuse or mental health problem, and requires daily intensive services
Has a high probability of relapse requiring near daily monitoring or support to maintain abstinence
Non-supportive environment but can cope with structure and support
Failure to achieve abstinence at a lower level of care
This program includes:
Screening, Intake, Orientation to our services
Physical Assessment by a physician or nurse practitioner
Clinical Assessment including a Bio-Psycho-Socio Assessment
Individualized Treatment Planning with an interdisciplinary staff
Pharmacotherapy
Non-12-Step group therapy session four times a week for 32 sessions
Screening Laboratory fees
Individual Therapy with a licensed therapist for 5 hours per week
Daily group activities
INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT PROGRAM
Our Intensive Outpatient Program is for individuals who request or require a greater amount of individual or family therapy. This program is designed for clients who live in the Savannah area and can come to our offices two hours for group therapy four days a week. With the help of the therapist, clients learn how to adjust to life without the use of alcohol or drugs. Clients will have the opportunity to work individually with a licensed therapist once a week. Based on the needs of the client and the therapist's assessment, these hours may be used for individual or family therapy. These hours will be scheduled at the convenience of the client, family, and therapist.
Clients who would be best suited for this program:
Have no to mild levels of emotional, behavioral, or cognitive conditions
Report a readiness to change but need a structured program to achieve sobriety
Need close support and monitoring to maintain abstinence
Have a supportive environment and good coping skills, or can cope with provided support and structure
Outpatient Therapy
This program is for clients who live in the Savannah area and can come to our offices at least twice a week for therapy. With the help of the therapist, clients learn how to adjust to life without the use of alcohol or drugs. Clients will have the opportunity to work individually with a licensed therapist for ten hours. Based on the needs of the client and the therapist's assessment, these hours may be used for individual or family therapy. These hours will be scheduled at the convenience of the client, family, and therapist.
Clients who would be best suited for this program:
Report a readiness to change to achieve sobriety
Need minimal support to maintain abstinence
Have a supportive environment and good coping skills
Pharmacotherapy
Screening Laboratory fees
Cost of detox medications
You can live a better life. This program includes:
Screening, Intake, Orientation to our services
Physical Assessment by a physician or nurse practitioner
Clinical Assessment including a Bio-Psycho-Socio Assessment
Individualized Treatment Planning with an interdisciplinary staff
Pharmacotherapy
Screening Laboratory fees
10 hours of Individual therapy with a licensed therapist
OPIATE RECOVERY PROGRAM
Opiates are a class of drugs generally prescribed to treat pain. These drugs include Oxycontin, Lortab, Codeine, Hydrocodone, Morphine, Heroin, Methadone, Percocet and many others. Addiction can occur when taking these medications, even if taken as prescribed, in as little as two weeks.
In the past, there were very few choices for people who found themselves addicted to opiates. Many people were forced to make daily trips to a Methadone Clinic to receive methadone -a long-acting opiate- to prevent withdrawal symptoms. Some people were able to wean themselves off methadone, but few succeeded at abstinence.
In late 2002, the FDA approved two new medications, Subutex and Suboxone, to treat opiate addiction. These medications may be prescribed by a limited number of specially trained physicians in an office setting and will allow more flexibility and options to an opiate-addicted person.
At Assisted Recovery Center of Georgia, we offer an Opiate Program which is designed to minimize any disruption in your daily routine by utilizing Suboxone to treat opiate addiction. Suboxone is a long-acting opiate with a built-in opiate antagonist which decreases the likelihood of abuse. Suboxone is given initially to stabilize the addicted individual and then the dosage is slowly decreased. Specially trained Registered Nurses work with the individual to help manage any withdrawal symptoms that they may have during this tapering process. The individual is then given Naltrexone to alleviate or improve the opiate cravings and help maintain long term abstinence. This process generally takes 3-13 weeks and is combined with a specially designed counseling program.
Our goal at the assisted recovery center is to help people get off opiates, maintain abstinence and get their lives back.
ANGER MANAGEMENT
When expressed appropriately, anger is a healthy normal emotion. When anger is expressed in unhealthy ways, it can cause a myriad of problems within personal relationships, at work, and within the community. Unhealthy ways of coping with and expressing anger can affect your health, increasing the risk of high blood pressure, digestive issues, heart problems, and substance abuse disorders.
Many of our clients find abstinence a more feasible option
after participating in our program, which includes:
Constantly feeling irritated, impatient, or hostile
Persistent negative thinking or focusing on negative events
Feeling that your anger is controlling you
Frequent arguments with your spouse, partner, children, family members, and/or colleagues
Threatening acts of violence towards others or property
Damaging property when angry or after arguments with others
Acts of physical violence towards your loved ones or others
Unsafe behavior, such as driving recklessly
Avoidance of situations due to anxiety or depression around outbursts of anger
Damaged relationships with family members, friends, or colleagues
An anger management course will help you recognize your anger triggers as well as unhealthy patterns of coping with anger. An anger management course will provide you with stress management tools, communication strategies, problem solving skills, and cognitive restructuring ( the reframing of negative or irrational thoughts).
At Assisted Recovery Center of Georgia, we offer a group therapy anger management course led by a licensed clinician. Completion of the anger management course will provide you with the tools and skills to experience and express your anger in a healthy way. If you are seeking an anger management course or if your lawyer has suggested an anger management course, we can help. For further information, please contact our office.
dna testing | pharmacogenetics
There is growing evidence that genetic information can be useful in refining the choice of addiction treatment. Pharmacogenetics, the study of genetic variation underlying individual differences in drug metabolism (pharmacokinetics) and drug response (pharmacodynamics), in conjunction with other biomarkers to identify disease states and therapeutic response, can aid in personalizing prescription.
Studies of several genes have yielded significant findings suggesting that pharmacogenetic studies may lead to the selection of individual-appropriate medication for the treatment of drug dependence and to increased cessation rates.
Using sequencing technologies in which up to a billion DNA fragments are simultaneously sequenced in a single run on one machine, we can identify and catalog all common human genetic variants with the goal of using this information to find the genes that affect individual responses to medications. The process begins with the collection of a patient’s saliva, which then undergoes genetic testing to provide us with an “addiction panel”, allowing our doctors to measure the patient’s individual ability to metabolize currently prescribed or prospective medications and identify the patient’s likelihood to become addicted to secondary substances as well.
Research shows that pharmacogenetic factors play a role in response to addiction pharmacotherapy and have the potential to aid in the personalization of addiction treatments. Such data from genetic testing can lead to improved cessation rates by allowing physicians to select the most effective and beneficial anti-addiction medications for individuals, based, at least in part, on genetic factors that predispose them to treatment success or failure rather than on a trial and error basis.