Heroin Addiction Treatment in Jacksonville, FL
Heroin Addiction Treatment
Our compassionate and judgment-free addiction treatment gives you the power you need to gain control of your urge to abuse heroin yes and hit the reset button on your life.
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If you have been struggling with an addiction to alcohol or another substance, our addiction treatment programs in Jacksonville, Florida, may be the ideal place to begin your recovery journey.
Design Recovery offers outpatient treatment that helps people sort through their history and understand what tempted them down the path of addiction. We teach them to learn to walk away from substance abuse and hit the reset button on their lives.
Design Recovery works with each person we treat to make sure they get the best heroin addiction treatment in Jacksonville.
This includes providing a multitude of individual and group therapies that teach people to remove the temptations of relapse and stay on a path to healing their minds and bodies.
Contact Design Recovery today at 833-818-4300 to begin addiction treatment in Jacksonville, Florida.
Understanding Heroin Addiction
Heroin addiction can happen after just one usage, which makes it such a dangerous drug.
Heroin is made from morphine, which is derived from opium poppy plants, and can be injected via syringe, smoked, snorted, or sniffed. An opioid drug, it causes people to feel relaxed and euphoric to the point that they often pass out. The individual ends up craving this feeling repeatedly and will do anything to obtain it.
Learn more: The DSM-Criteria for Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
Signs and Symptoms of Heroin Addiction
Heroin addiction causes a person to experience signs and symptoms that are usually noticeable to others. They include:
- Lethargy
- Sleeping for long periods of time
- Damaged relationships with others
- Unable to perform well at school or on the job
- Dilated pupils
- Lack of appetite
- Doing everything possible to obtain the drug, including getting arrested
- Cognitive difficulties
- Depression
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Hallucinations
- Developing a tolerance and taking dangerously high dosages
- Withdrawal symptoms when not using the drug
- Unable to quit using heroin
- Hiding bruises and track marks under clothing.
Causes of Heroin Addiction
A person can develop a heroin addiction for one or more reasons.
Genes can play a part in it because people with a family history of addiction have an increased likelihood of developing one.
Going through traumatic experiences or having an untreated mental illness can also contribute to becoming addicted.
How Addictive is Heroin?
Heroin proves so addictive that many people never seek treatment because they can’t imagine life without using the drug. Temporary and permanent damage can be done to a person’s organs and brain, and depress their breathing.
A 2021 national report showed that 1.1 million people aged 12 and older abused heroin in the past 12 months.
The Florida Medical Examiner Commission reported opioids, stimulants, and other similar-acting substances were present in over 50% of the drug overdose deaths in the state.
Heroin Addiction Treatment Programs in Jacksonville
Design Recovery offers two different types of outpatient treatment.
The individual does not move into a facility, but travels to us for their therapy sessions and returns home. Our programs for heroin addiction treatment in Jacksonville include:
Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP): Therapy appointments run from 9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. on Monday through Friday.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP): Therapy appointments run from 9:00 A.M. to noon on three to five days each week.
Withdrawal From Heroin
The first step in overcoming a heroin addiction is going to a detox program.
We partner with several programs to help you get enrolled in one that helps you make your way through the challenges of the first days of being sober.
From there, we help you easily transition to our facility, where you will continue working on your sobriety in one of our outpatient programs.
How is Heroin Addiction Treated?
Heroin addiction treatment includes attending different types of therapy that teach people to identify their triggers, improve communication, and avoid toxic behaviors. The types of therapy we use include:
Individual Therapy: One-on-one appointments with a therapist provide a place to speak candidly about how a person feels, thinks, and behaves.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): This teaches people to understand the four tenets that help them make progress in recovery. They include interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and mindfulness.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): This teaches people to examine their thoughts and emotions and correlate them to their resulting actions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): EMDR helps people heal their symptoms of trauma through the use of eye movement in response to therapist-directed instructions.
Holistic Therapy: Holistic therapy helps people heal their mental, spiritual, and physical selves through different types of activities.
Surf Therapy: This helps individuals develop a strong mind-body connection and learn to set effective goals.
We also provide prescription medications that help ease withdrawal symptoms.
Why Design Recovery?
Design Recovery views each person as an individual, and we take the time to get to know you, allowing us to create a tailored treatment program that meets your exact needs. We help you grow and work toward your treatment goals, making any necessary adjustments.
Ryan Terry, LMHC, QS
Mike Ansley, RCSWI
Brian Beardsley, PMHNP
Shelley Anderson, LMHC, BCN-L
Begin Heroin Addiction Treatment in Jacksonville
Design Recovery provides heroin addiction treatment in Jacksonville that sees each person for the value they hold and teaches them to resurface from the depths of a substance use disorder. We also offer prescription medication that helps minimize their withdrawal symptoms.
Contact us now, and let’s talk about how quickly you can enroll in our program. We also provide free insurance verifications to help you understand your payment options.