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About FIRST at Blue Ridge
FIRST at Blue Ridge assists individuals with long-term substance use disorders. They provide a range of programs, including long-term, short-term, veterans programs, and transitional housing. Their unique peer-led community model, where individuals with lived experience guide others toward recovery, fosters healing, personal responsibility, and growth. They offer evidence-based guidance and education, empowering clients to rebuild their lives and achieve sustainable recovery, becoming contributing members of society.
Their year-long program integrates holistic, evidence-based approaches through daily clinical groups, self-help meetings, Alcohol Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA). Services include life skills, job placement assistance, transitional living, social services, anger management, 12-step programs, and vocational training. A fee-for-service short-term program is also available, providing room and board, clinical assessments, group therapy, and Phase One activities.
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Provider's Policy:They assists clients with applications for Medicaid and Medicare.
Medicaid
<p>Signed into law through the Social Security Act in 1965, Medicaid is a United States government program that offers health insurance to those with limited income.</p>
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A simple coverage option for Americans without health insurance and disabilities. Many private insurances incorporate Medicare to expand its coverage options.
See rehabs that accept this provider.Addiction and mental health treatment caters to adults 55+ and the age-specific challenges that can come with recovery, wellness, and overall happiness.
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Treatment for children incorporates the psychiatric care they need and education, often led by on-site teachers to keep children on track with school.
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
For adults ages 40+, treatment shifts to focus on the unique challenges, blocks, and risk factors of their age group, and unites peers in a similar community.
Patients who completed active military duty receive specialized treatment focused on trauma, grief, loss, and finding a new work-life balance.
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Patients who completed active military duty receive specialized treatment focused on trauma, grief, loss, and finding a new work-life balance.
These structured living environments help people transition out of rehab. Residents have more freedom than they do during rehab, but still follow certain rules.
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Partners work to improve their communication patterns, using advice from their therapist to better their relationship and make healthy changes.
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Based on the idea that motivation to change comes from within, providers use a conversational framework to discover personalized methods for change.
Relapse prevention counselors teach patients to recognize the signs of relapse and reduce their risk.
Not looking to the past, patients improve their present circumstances. They work toward safety without detailing traumatic events.
12-Step groups offer a framework for addiction recovery. Members commit to a higher power, recognize their issues, and support each other in the healing process.
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.
It's possible to abuse any drug, even prescribed ones. If you crave a medication, or regularly take it more than directed, you may have an addiction.
Synthetic drugs are made in a lab, unlike plant-based drugs like mushrooms. Most synthetic drugs are either stimulants or synthetic cannabinoids.
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