Experimental Therapy
Third Eye Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center , also explores an experimental drug treatment through mediation and yoga and other medicinal herbs used to treat People Who Used Drugs (PWUD) and Alcohol.
Counseling
Traditional addiction treatment is based primarily on counseling. Counselors help individuals identifying behaviors and problems related to their addiction. It can be done on an individual basis, but more commonly in a group setting and includes crisis counseling, weekly or daily counseling, and drop-in counseling supports.
They are trained to develop recovery programs that help to reestablish healthy behaviors and provide coping strategies whenever a situation of risk happens. It’s very common to see them work also with family members who are affected by the addictions of the individual, or in a community to prevent addiction and educate the public.
Our counselors are able to recognize how addiction affects the whole person and those around him or her. Counseling is also related to the Intervention process in which the addict’s family requests help from a professional to get a person into drug treatment. This process begins with one of Third Eye Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers’ first goals breaking down denial of the person with the addiction. Denial implies lack of willingness from the patients or fear to confront the true nature of the addiction and to take any action to improve their lives, besides of continuing the destructive behavior. Once this has been achieved, professional coordinates with the addict’s family to support them on getting this family member to alcohol drug rehabilitation immediately, with concern and care for this person. Otherwise, this person will be asked to leave and expect no support of any kind until going into drug rehabilitation or alcoholism treatment. An intervention can also be conducted in the workplace environment with colleagues instead of family.
One approach with limited applicability is the Sober Coach. In this approach, the client is serviced by provider(s) by and outreach worker in his or her home and workplace – for any efficacy, around-the-clock – who functions much like a nanny to guide or control the patient’s behavior.
Twelve-step programs
The disease model of addiction has long contended the maladaptive patterns of alcohol and substance use displayed by addicted individuals are the result of a lifelong disease that is biological in origin and exacerbated by environmental contingencies. This conceptualization renders the individual essentially powerless over his or her problematic behaviors and unable to remain sober by him or herself, much as individuals with a terminal illness are unable to fight the disease by themselves without medication. Behavioral treatment, therefore, necessarily requires individuals to admit their addiction, renounce their former lifestyle, and seek a supportive social network who can help them remain sober. Such approaches are the quintessential features of Twelve-step programs, originally published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939. These approaches have met considerable amounts of criticism, coming from opponents who disapprove of the spiritual-religious orientation on both psychological and legal grounds. Opponents also contend that it lacks valid scientific evidence for claims of efficacy. However, there is survey based research that suggests there is a correlation between attendance and alcohol sobriety. Different results have been reached for other drugs, with the twelve steps being less beneficial for People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) to illicit substances, and least beneficial to those addicted to the physiologically and psychologically addicting opioids, for which harm reduction maintenance therapies are the gold standard of care.
SMART Recovery Program
SMART is an acronym for Self-Management and Recovery Training. The SMART approach is secular and scientifically-based, using community based therapy (CBT) through non-confrontational, non-conformity motivational methods.
SMART Recovery presents itself as an alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and other twelve-step programs. SMART differs from others by not encouraging individuals to admit powerlessness over addictions, not using the concept of a “Higher Power”, and not using the disease theory. Addiction is viewed as a dysfunctional habit, rather than a disease, while allowing that it is possible that certain people have a predisposition toward addictive behavior. It is possible to overcome it through self-discipline and behavior modification counseling.
SMART Recovery gives importance to the human agency in overcoming addiction and focuses on self-empowerment and self-reliance. It does not subscribe to disease theory and powerlessness. The group meetings involve open discussions, questioning decisions and forming corrective measures through assertive exercises. It does not involve a lifetime membership concept, but people can opt to attend meetings, and choose not to after gaining recovery. Objectives of the SMART Recovery programs are:
- Building and Maintaining Motivation,
- Coping with Urges, Self-Discipline, Manageability
- Managing Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors, Pro-acting and Reacting, Sociability
- Living a balanced Life. Functionality.
This is also considered our self-help groups model.
Client-centered approaches
In the client-centered approach to therapeutic change, there are three necessary and sufficient conditions for personal change:
- Unconditional positive regard,
- Accurate empathy, and
- Genuineness.
Third Eye Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center believes the presence of these three items in the therapeutic relationship can help an individual overcome any troublesome issue, including alcohol abuse. Surprisingly, client-centered therapy has proved most effective in which clients are directly responsible for determining the goals and objectives of the treatment.
Relapse prevention
An influential cognitive-behavioral approach to addiction recovery and therapy has been Third Eye Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center’s Relapse Prevention approach, through four psychosocial processes relevant to the addiction and relapse processes:
- Self-efficacy, Self-efficacy refers to one’s ability to deal competently and effectively with high-risk, relapse-provoking situations.
- Outcome expectancies– Outcome expectancies refer to an individual’s expectations about the psychoactive effects of an addictive substance.
- Attributions of causality-Attributions of causality refer to an individual’s pattern of beliefs that relapse to drug use is a result of internal, or rather external, transient causes (e.g., allowing oneself to make exceptions when faced with what are judged to be unusual circumstances).
- Decision-making processes. Finally decision-making processes cause the relapse process and Substance use is the result of multiple decisions whose collective effects result in consumption of the intoxicant. Furthermore, some decisions—seemingly apparently irrelevant decisions—may seem inconsequential to relapse, but may actually have downstream effect that places the user in a high-risk situation.
Cognitive Therapy
An additional cognitively-based model of substance abuse recovery has been offered by Third Eye Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center , This therapy rests upon the assumption addicted individuals possess core beliefs, often not accessible to immediate consciousness (unless the patient is also depressed). These core beliefs, such as “I am undesirable,” activate a system of addictive beliefs that result in imagined anticipatory benefits of substance use and, consequentially, craving. Once craving has been activated, permissive beliefs (“I can handle getting high just this one more time”) are facilitated. Once a permissive set of beliefs have been activated, then the individual will activate drug-seeking and drug-ingesting behaviors. Our job is to uncover this underlying system of beliefs, analyze it with the patient, and thereby demonstrate its dysfunctionality. As with any cognitive-behavioral therapy, homework assignments, daily inventory/diary writing and behavioral exercises serve to solidify what is learned and discussed during treatment.
Emotion Regulation and Mindfulness
Demonstrating the importance of emotion regulation in the treatment of substance abuse, considering that nicotine and other psychoactive substances such as cocaine activate similar psychopharmacological pathways, an emotion regulation approach may be applicable to a wide array of substance abuse. Previous models have focused on negative reinforcement as the primary driving force for recovery; Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), is showing evidence that it is effective in treating substance abuse, including the treatment of poly-substance abuse and cigarette smoking. Mindfulness program encourages patients to be aware of their own experiences in the present moment and of emotions that arise from thoughts, appear to prevent impulsive/compulsive responses. Research also indicates that mindfulness programs can reduce the consumption of substances such as alcohol, cocaine, amphetamines, marijuana, cigarettes and opiates.
Approaches
The Community Based Approach and Family Training method believes that since family members can, and do make important contribution[s] in other areas of addiction treatment (i.e. family and couples therapy), that Third Eye Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center can play a powerful role in helping to engage the substance user who is in denial to submit to treatment. In addition, it is often the substance user who reports that family pressure or influence is the reason [they] sought treatment. Also, those who attend the CRAFT program also benefit by becoming more independent and reducing their depression, anxiety and anger symptoms even if their loved one does not enter treatment.
Third Eye Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center makes use of Community Based Approach and Family Training. Both these have had considerable success for both efficacy and effectiveness. This lays much emphasis on the use of problem solving techniques as a means of helping to overcome his/her addiction.
Third Eye Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center Sober living house
The Sober living house (SLHs) is an “alcohol- and drug-free living environments for individuals attempting to maintain abstinence from alcohol and drugs”. It is an interim step on the path to sobriety where people recovering from addiction can live in a supervised and sober environment with structure and rules, i.e. mandatory curfews, chores and therapeutic meetings. This can, however, invite corruption when certain people who have never had a position of authority before decide to play God. In this show, celebrity People Who USed Drugs (PWUD), most of whom have spent the better part of their lives in the throes of addiction, will learn how to essentially start their lives over from the ground up. In many cases, successfully maintaining sobriety requires patients to alter everything about their previous lives when they were actively addicted to alcohol and other drugs. This could include changing jobs, eliminating friends and even abandoning loved ones who are deemed toxic to their sobriety.
Third Eye Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center has been successfully employed to treat a variety of substance use disorders for more than 10 years. Third Eye Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center helps a person rearrange their lifestyles so that healthy, drug-free living becomes rewarding and thereby competes with alcohol and drug use.
Third Eye Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center is a time-limited treatment. In time-limited therapy, a set number of sessions (for example, 16 sessions) or time limit (for example, six months) is decided upon either at the very beginning of therapy or within the early stages of therapy.”
Community Based and family training works through family members as well. t “is designed to increase the odds of the substance user who is refusing treatment to enter treatment, as well as improve the lives of the concerned family members. It teaches the use of healthy rewards to encourage positive behaviors. Plus, it focuses on helping both the substance user and the family. We also target adolescents and teen agers with substance use problems and their guardians.