Addiction Treatment

• Alcohol Dependence
• Drug Dependence

If you’re abusing drugs or alcohol or know someone who is, the time to seek help is NOW. Getting medical assistance at a Professional Drug Treatment Center is the only safe and effective way to recover from any drug abuse or drug addiction problem. Point to remember: Fighting drug addiction is never just a case of mind over matter!

Check into Intensive Outpatient Program without checking out on everything else in your life!

Our program is designed to help people recover from drug and alcohol addiction while maintaining their daily living schedules and to help restore their ability to function in their daily lives.

As a busy professional, you have a life and a career to lead. Commitments, projects, deadlines- you can’t just put your life on hold. And yet, you also know that you need help in managing your addiction. Integrated Recovery & Wellness Clinic has specifically designed an Intensive Outpatient Program just for you, providing you with the best of both worlds: you can continue to carry on your work activities and stay with your family and friends, while simultaneously undergo professional rehab treatments that will provide you with the opportunity for a fresh start in your personal and professional life.

Our Intensive Outpatient Program is covered by most major insurance carriers. Please contact our admissions department at (201) 791-7771 to find out if your particular insurance covers it or to discuss private pay rates for the program

Alcohol Dependence

Alcoholism claims thousands of lives every year in the United States through other maladies, and this does not even include the thousands of lives lost each and every year through DWI (driving while intoxicated) accidents and work place incidents. It also means fewer ruined lives, better work records, less lost productivity, savings billions in health care costs, fewer hospitalizations and fewer broken marriages.

Is there a cure for alcoholism? Certainly, there's abstinence from "hitting the bottle." But how do you get to abstinence? Some people are benefiting from the well-tried combination of counseling and a relatively new prescription drug "Vivitrol," now available in the American market.

Vivitrol is the short, market name for "Naltrexone" in an extended-release injectable suspension. That can be shortened itself to "a shot in the butt," every month, of Vivitrol with the sound advice of your doctor and the follow up care of your therapists and support group.

With Vivitrol patients don't have to remember to take a pill. Especially when first starting treatment, patients lack clarity that they achieve later on in the process. It's during these first few days when it can be hard for them to think of taking a daily pill. They might miss it the first day, miss it the second day....and then be paying the consequences on the third day.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) states that medication is best used in combination with long term therapeutic help...like counseling. Counseling itself must be handled by "combining medicine and counseling" in approved settings. So in both matters, there must be a long range commitment to both taking your medication and also, at the same time, attending what the NIAAA calls "psychosocial support." This psychosocial support" includes such well proven groups as the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program as well as the many state financed, or state supervised, alcoholic recovery programs.

What makes doctors optimistic about Vivitrol is this: it offers "people struggling with alcohol dependence a new alternative...and shown to be both effective and well tolerated" by the people using the medication.

Most complications from Vivitrol include nausea, headaches, fatigue, and vomiting, and these (usually) go away after a few days. Because these usually go away after a few days, the complications might be discounted by your doctor anyway.

As always, ask the doctor first about whether Vivitrol is good for your alcoholism. At best, it might be a cure. But only he or she can monitor its benefits and discern its problems.

Drug Dependence

Drug dependence is a universal public health problem of which opioid dependence, notably involving heroin and morphine are a major component. In Europe alone, there are an estimated 1.1 million intravenous drug users and the number is estimated to be at least 3 times that many in North America. The majority of these individuals remain untreated. Opioid dependence is a chronic relapsing medical condition that requires long-term treatment and patient support. In addition, many of these intravenous drug users share syringes and needles, a practice that can lead to the transmission of serious blood-borne infections including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

Currently opiate dependence treatments like methadone can be dispensed only in a few centers that focus in addiction treatment. There are not enough addiction treatment clinics to assist all patients seeking treatment. Suboxone is the first narcotic drug available under the Drug Abuse Treatment Act (DATA) of 2000 for the treatment of opiate dependence that can be prescribed by a physician. Hopefully, this advance in therapeutics will provide more patients the opportunity to access treatment.

Suboxone treatment is generally done under medical supervision. During the induction phase, one is taught how to properly take the medications and dose adjustments are done during the phase. One is usually started on the smallest dose until the best therapeutic effect is obtained. Once the ideal dose is obtained, the individual is seen once in a while and prescriptions can generally be available from the same physician.

Although Suboxone can be used for detoxification, its intended use is for maintenance. The ideal candidate for maintenance therapy with Suboxone is an individual who has previously been on drugs but now has a job and wants a stable lifestyle. The individual who previously has failed detoxification and wants to live a simple life without the daily cravings of his previous addiction. The majority of past drug users immediately adjust to Suboxone as the cravings disappear immediately and a smoother life style is accessible.