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If you are in Houston, and want to get off heroin, you have come to the right place. Since we opened our doors nearly three decades ago, we helped thousands get off heroin, and stay off heroin for the long-term. Learn how below.
At Bay Area Recovery our staff are fully licensed and passionate heroin treatment experts who want to see you succeed. That is why we welcome you to call anytime for help, even if you or your loved one are not ready to get started right now.
How We Treat Heroin Addiction
Our heroin addiction treatment programs have been created with over 30 years of hands on experience. The professionals who created them have decades of sobriety themselves, and have helped thousands get sober for life.
With the help of our programs, we help clients not only stay sober, but become prodcutive members of community.
From the intimate one on one work to group sessions and stories shared by sober heroin addicts. Our clients learn from the best and graduate our treatment program with a clear understanding of what it takes to stay sober once they leave. Ensuring treatment is effective and the foundation for lifelong sobriety.
How Our Heroin Addiction Treatment Program Keeps You Sober
From medically assisted detox to vacation rehabs, it has become very tedious navigating through the web of choices and finding a program that actually treats heroin addiction, and not just a temporary detox.
In order to get off heroin, and stay off for good, you need a program equips the patient with the tools necessary to achieve lifelong sobriety.
Detox is only the beginning of the journey, the real work begins after the mind has cleared.
Below, we review everything you need to know about treating heroin addiction, and how we help clients stay sober for life. Our programs are designed with 30 years of experience, with programs ranging from medically assisted heroin detox, inpatient programs, and outpatient.
Bay Area Recovery Center is a full service addiction treatment rehab serving the greater Houston area and residents across the state of Texas.
If you want help with your Heroin addiction give us a call today using the phone number on this page or:
- Request a call back.
- To see if we take your insurance, you can use this form
- For self pay clients, visit this page to learn more.
Heroin Addiction is a Three Part Disease. Physical, Mental & Spiritual
All of our programs are baed on medical literature, science and experience. We not only believe, we have seen first hand that addiction is a chronic disease, and the physical ailment of addiction is only one part of the overall problem.
This fact has been backed up by the research at The American Society of Addiction Medicine and the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependance who have defined addiction and addiction as a chronic disease.
“Addiction Is A threefold illness that affects the mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing of the patient.”
Step 1 Heroin Detox
Detox is why so many heroin addicted clients will avoid being admitted into a rehab. They know the only way to get sober is by detoxing the drug out of their system.
Detox is usually the hardest part of the addiction treatment process for most heroin addicts. It is both physically and mentally painful. They are not wrong, withdrawing from heroin is not easy and it comes with mental and physical pain.
We can help with our medially assisted heroin detox.
Medically Assisted Heroin Detox
The focus of a medically assisted detox is to safely alleviate the physical addiction to heroin. Our goal is to remove the substance entirely from the client’s system, taking away the physical dependance of the drug.
Our medically assisted detox is managed by our medical staff that includes a licensed doctor and nurses.
First, our doctor performs a thorough mental and physical assessment of the client and prescribes the proper medications to treat the client’s withdrawal symptoms. From this point forward the client’s vital stability and symptom reduction is closely monitored by our nursing and direct care technicians.
Treating Withdrawal Symptoms
- Treating heroin withdrawal symptoms, we use a Suboxone taper withdrawal protocol to alleviate the worst of the physical symptoms. As clients conclude the detox phase of treatment, they can expect to experience minimal, if any, remaining physical withdrawal symptoms. This allows the clients to move onto the next phase of inpatient treatment, which focuses on the mental addiction of their illness.
- Withdrawal symptoms, otherwise called C.O.W.S. stands for Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale and is the standard used to assess Heroin and other Opiate or Opioid withdrawal symptoms and progress.
- How Long Do Heroin Withdrawals Last? Heroin withdrawal symptoms can last anywhere from 5 to 14 days and sub-acute symptoms can last months. Withdrawal can be very dangerous and should always be medically supervised.
What are the withdrawal symptoms of heroin?
- Cold sweats
- Difficulty sitting still/restlessness
- Dilated pupils
- Nausea
- Vomiting or dry heaves
- Decreased appetite
- Anxiety or panic attacks
- Trouble with sleep or sleeplessness
- Diarrhea
- Flu-like symptoms
- Skin crawls or goose flesh
- Muscle aches
- Joint pain
- Increased blood pressure and or heart rate
- Heavy breathing
Step 2 Inpatient Treatment For Heroin Addiction
Many inpatient rehabs simply give the patient a reboot and escape from reality. Offering activities to keep their mind occupied and away from reality. We believe inpatient rehab is a time to identify and work on the underlying causes of the addiction.
Although we have comforting facilities with activities to keep our patients occupied, majority of their time is spent preparing for release back into society. This is realized through education, community, and hard work. Getting down to the root cause of the addiction and working with heroin addiction professionals who have helped many men and women free themselves from the addiction of heroin.
Heroin addiction treatment includes, but are not limited to:
- 30 / 60 to 90 Day Residential Rehab
- Group Therapy
- Cognitive Therapy & Intervention
- Behavioral Therapy
- Learning Coping Mechanisms
- Chemical dependency education and interactive group counseling sessions
- Individual counseling sessions
- Personal social adjustment training
- Vocational adjustment and employment readiness training; job placement services
- Twelve Step support group orientation
- Relapse prevention
- Structured activities
Separate facilities for men & woman recovering from Heroin Addiction
Is inpatient rehab for heroin addiction necessary?
Yes, because intensive inpatient rehab is where the real work begins, and detox only alleviates the physical ailments of heroin addiction. Without further treatment, the detox phase is a waste of time if the underlying reasons for using heroin are not treated. The goal of residential inpatient for heroin addiction is to treat the root cause of heroin addiction through education and therapy. Healing the mental and spiritual aspects of the person.
We recommend every patient enter a 30,60 or 90-day. Read about our inpatient treatment programs here.
Call To Get Professional Addiction Help
More details are available by calling our heroin treatment experts. Our team has years of experience dealing with heroin addiction and what it takes to achieve sobriety, our team wants you to be successful and achieve recovery from heroin addiction.
Starting with a caring, knowledgeable team of addiction treatment specialists, who will help you figure out the best timeline, verify your insurance or see which one of our rehabilitation facilities is nearest you. We have locations in the greater Houston area, including surrounding suburbs of Clear Lake, Pasadena, Webster, and Dickinson, Texas.
Every call is free of charge and you will get the answers you have been looking for.
Step 3 Outpatient Rehab
The next step for many patients is outpatient rehab. Whether it is court ordered or not, it is a good idea to continue staying in contact with professionals who can guide the newly recovered addict or alcoholic. We have multiple outpatient facilities throughout Houston, and we will organize your outpatient services once you enter the end of your treatment phase.
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