By: Nick Sparrow
August 13, 2024

How to Support Addiction Recovery

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Addiction recovery requires support from several areas. An individual who is struggling with addiction needs support from their family, friends, community, and those medical professionals who help them with their treatment plan. Achieving all of this can seem overwhelming, but with the right level of care, recovery is possible. In this blog, we’ll discuss how to support addiction recovery.

How to Support Addiction Recovery with the Right Level of Care

The right level of care is imperative to figuring out how to support addiction recovery.

Levels of care are divided into two categories: inpatient and outpatient. Inpatient programs, sometimes called residential programs, are those where you reside full-time at the treatment center during the course of your program. This can be helpful for some individuals who need to step away from their daily lives because there are too many stressors or they don’t necessarily have full Independence at this stage.

However, there are several comparative outpatient programs which differ in terms of the amount of commitment required each day. All allow you to live at home during your recovery. One outpatient program is not necessarily better than the other, it comes down to what works best for your schedule, personal preferences, and what you are most likely to feel comfortable doing.

Note: The biggest difference is that if an individual cannot take care of themselves in any way and has no independence, it is likely recommended that they participate in an inpatient or residential program over any type of outpatient program, especially if they don’t have stable housing. This is something to discuss during an assessment or with a doctor. 

Partial Day Programs and Intensive Outpatient Programs

At Multi Concept Recovery, we recommend our partial hospitalization programs after you have been medically cleared by a doctor when it’s clear that you are safe from the dangers of any health complications associated with addiction or withdrawal symptoms.

At this stage, our goal is to help you start your treatment so that you can learn to function without drugs and alcohol.

With our intensive outpatient program, each client receives guidance on how to develop coping skills when things get challenging and how to better understand the science of addiction. With individual counseling and group therapy sessions, clients also form bonds with other people while rebuilding relationships with their communities and their families. This gives specialized knowledge to clients and their loved ones to help them support lasting recovery for their loved one.

Supporting Addiction Recovery with Multi-Concept Recovery

Multi-Concept Recovery works hard to create unique programs that allow clients the opportunity to figure out how to support addiction recovery long-term with access to ongoing outpatient programs.

Once our clients reach the outpatient phase of their program, they have weekly individual therapy sessions, which is substantial compared to facilities that only provide group-based programs at the outpatient phase.

With Multi Concept Recovery’s outpatient program, there are options for continued group therapy sessions as well as participation in medication therapy, mindfulness, meditation, and yoga.

Our team understands that there are multiple paths to recovery, and the goal is to allow each client to participate actively in the planning of their treatment and the treatment process. We consider the outpatient phase to be recovery maintenance, and that maintenance is there to help you learn how to support addiction recovery long-term by managing mental health and receiving the tools you need for developing coping mechanisms, maintaining supportive relationships, and building new skills.

Overall, getting addiction recovery support looks different at every level, but it starts with finding the right level of care. As you transition through other stages in your recovery, your needs will change, and so will the type of support you need. Finding a reputable program with several levels of care can give you access to all of the tools required for this ongoing recovery.

Contact Multi Concept Recovery today to learn more about our intensive outpatient programs and ongoing outpatient care.