How Does Holistic Addiction Treatment Work?
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, one of the Principles of Effective Treatment required for sustainable, long-term recovery from addiction is providing holistic or whole-patient treatments. The idea is that it’s not just the addiction itself that needs to be treated but rather the person as a whole, exploring and treating many important parts of their life from their life skills, work, past traumas, and other areas.
Holistic addiction treatment, therefore, treats the person and not just the substance use disorder (addiction), and it is through this whole-patient approach that long-term recovery results are achieved. Traditional evidence-based treatment methods are essential to recovery but so too are the programs that aim to improve your quality of life and help you with other indirectly related areas.
Holistic vs. Traditional Addiction Treatment Approach
While both types of treatment approaches are ultimately needed to provide comprehensive drug and alcohol addiction treatment that provides the platform for long-term sobriety, there are differences between the two approaches.
Traditional addiction treatments are all of the therapies and treatments that directly treat addiction, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and medical detox programs. These programs treat the symptoms of addiction and its direct causes, which usually lie in a person’s environment, development, and biology, including dual diagnosis treatment for co-occurring mental health disorders.
Holistic or whole patient treatment is essentially all of the treatments and therapies that indirectly treat addiction and can include nutrition, life skills training, equine therapy, and more. Holistic treatments treat the person and not just their addiction.
Table of Contents
- Holistic vs. Traditional Addiction Treatment Approach
- What’s Involved in a Holistic Addiction Treatment Program?
- Naturopathic Therapies
- IV & Oral Vitamin Therapy
- Amino Acid Therapy
- Massage Therapy
- Yoga & Meditative Therapy
- Dry Infrared Sauna Therapy
- Individual Counseling
- Group Therapy
- Family Education
- 12-Step Program
- Co-Occurring Disorders/Dual Diagnosis
- Addiction Treatment for Pregnant Women
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Addiction Rehab for Native Americans
- Why Choose The River Source Arizona for Holistic Addiction Treatment?
- Our Recovery Guarantee
What’s Involved in a Holistic Addiction Treatment Program
At the core of a holistic addiction treatment program is personalized treatment. The intricacies of a person’s life and mental state are explored in order to provide them with treatments and therapies that match their recovery needs.
The following are some of the therapies and addiction treatment programs that The River Source provides that can help to pave the road to sustainable recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.
Naturopathic Therapies
The naturopathic treatment that we offer is essentially an integrative approach that treats drug and alcohol addiction with the help of medicines and treatments that are aimed at helping the whole person and not just individual symptoms. It seeks to treat the root causes of the disease and the interconnectedness of the disease and the person’s body and mind as a whole, often caused by nutrient deficiencies.
IV & Oral Vitamin Therapy
The goal of IV and oral vitamin therapy is twofold: the biochemical repair of the body through the use of minerals and vitamins that are lacking and helping rehydrate the body, especially during detox from certain substances. The therapy addresses potential vitamin and mineral deficiencies that are common in drug and alcohol abuse cases.
Amino Acid Therapy
Amino acids are an important building block in our bodies. Among the twenty different amino acids in our body, nine are crucial. Restoring and enhancing the amino acids in your body can help the body to have an improved intake of other nutrients, can reduce mood swings and cravings, and help with pain management. Our amino acid therapy is another one of the holistic treatment programs that we offer that will improve your healing and recovery from addiction.
Massage Therapy
As part of our naturopathic therapies, massage therapy offers you an effective way to manage aches and pains, especially chronic pain, which can become an issue in recovery. It also helps to elevate your mood and helps you to relax as you go through the recovery process.
Yoga & Meditative Therapy
Helping to heal the mind, body, and spirit is important during holistic treatment for alcohol and drug addiction. Yoga is an excellent low-impact exercise that has benefits that extend to mental wellness. Meditation can give you many benefits in recovery from an addiction, such as the reduction of stress, anxiety, and cravings. Meditation and yoga are offered as part of your personalized treatment plan at our holistic treatment center in Arizona
Dry Infrared Sauna Therapy
Dry infrared sauna treatment can be an excellent way to naturally detox from drugs and alcohol. It utilizes infrared light, which produces heat as well as electromagnetic wavelengths that have shown to increase blood flow and lower blood pressure in a process called vasodilation. It can help with detox, reduce stress, reduce fatigue, relieve pain, and improve your immune system.
Individual Counseling
Individual counseling is an important part of treatment for addiction because it is one of the main tools that seek to directly treat the causes of addiction, such as problematic thinking and behavior. In our drug and alcohol rehab in Arizona, we provide you with individual counseling in both inpatient and outpatient rehab settings. Treating the root causes of your addiction through individual therapy will help you to change your life in a positive way and help to prevent relapse in your future.
Group Therapy
One of the things that you’ll experience in recovery is a shared experience with other people in recovery. In group therapy, you will have the chance to learn that other people are experiencing similar issues that led them to abuse drugs. Group therapy helps build comradery and gives you a place to learn from your peers and share your experiences, helping to improve your recovery process and growth.
Family Education
The family unit gives us a support network that can help us through the more difficult parts of life. In addiction cases, the family can be hugely affected too, and addiction education can help the family members to understand the mental health disorder known as addiction. Through family education, enabling behavior and negative family roles can be resolved, strengthening the family unit and giving the family members the power and understanding they need to provide the right kind of support during recovery from addiction.
12-Step Program
The 12-step program is an effective way to treat addiction and when added to a comprehensive treatment plan, can help to improve recovery. We provide the 12-step recovery program as part of a comprehensive plan to help you to overcome your addiction, including access to local 12-step support group meetings in Arizona.
Co-Occurring Disorders/Dual Diagnosis
A common condition that people face with addiction is that they have another untreated mental health disorder that is often the main cause of their substance abuse. Mental health disorders such as trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression can cause people to seek relief from their symptoms through drug or alcohol abuse. To effectively treat this cause of addiction, both the addiction and the co-occurring mental health disorder must be treated. Our dual diagnosis treatment program can effectively treat any co-occurring mental health disorder together with the symptoms of addiction.
Addiction Treatment for Pregnant Women
Addiction in pregnant women requires specialized treatment programs to help reduce the potential harm that the unborn baby faces and provide ample support for the pregnant woman so that she can overcome her addiction and be prepared to be the mother she was destined to be. Our specialized addiction treatment programs for pregnant women in Arizona are crucial for pregnant women facing addiction during pregnancy.
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma is a common cause of substance abuse and addiction. People will receive treatment for their trauma, but to help with the recovery process, therapy and treatment for addiction are provided in a way that doesn’t rehash their traumatic experience at every turn. Trauma-informed care is a therapy that looks to treat addiction but without having to constantly bring up painful, traumatic experiences, improving recovery results for people receiving treatment for their trauma.
We are a top-rated inpatient drug and alcohol rehab that uses evidence-based treatments, and our comprehensive treatment programs are outcome-driven, meaning that we don’t just treat your addiction, but we create a treatment plan that will lead you to sustainable recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.
The River Source is in-network with many major health insurance providers. We offer cost-effective treatment solutions that provide you with comprehensive in-budget treatments while not reducing the quality of treatment. Our premier in-network inpatient facility for alcohol and drug addiction can help you to achieve lasting success in your recovery.
Addiction Rehab for Native Americans
Native Americans that face drug or alcohol addiction sometimes face racial issues when trying to find treatment and may be discriminated against because of their race. At our addiction rehab for Native Americans, we are sensitive to the needs and difficulties that Native Americans face when seeking behavioral health care. Our holistic, naturopathic treatment approach is ideal for getting the help you need while also being in a safe, protective environment.
We are a top-rated inpatient drug and alcohol rehab that uses evidence-based treatments, and our comprehensive treatment programs are outcome-driven, meaning that we don’t just treat your addiction, but we create a treatment plan that will lead you to sustainable recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.
The River Source is in-network with many major health insurance providers. We offer cost-effective treatment solutions that provide you with comprehensive in-budget treatments while not reducing the quality of treatment. Our premier in-network inpatient facility for alcohol and drug addiction can help you to achieve lasting success in your recovery.
Why Choose The River Source Arizona for Holistic Addiction Treatment?
The River Source is an accredited holistic addiction treatment center in Arizona with specialized treatment programs for a variety of common situations in addiction. The River Source in Arizona offers a combined evidence-based traditional approach combined with holistic treatments to create a comprehensive treatment plan that will build the foundation for your long-term recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.
Our Recovery Guarantee
Our unique recovery guarantee offers you 120 days to reclaim your life. If you were to relapse in the first year of your recovery after graduating from rehab and have followed the recovery advice, finished your rehab programs like heroin rehab in Arizona, and actively maintained your sobriety with our relapse prevention strategies and aftercare programs, then you can come back to The River Source for treatment free of charge.
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