Admissions
The opportunity to experience life in a new way is available for any individual by learning new tools to disengage from unhealthy behaviors. To remain in recovery it takes both motivation and skill. To maintain one’s motivation, Santé offers patients a process of healing that enables them to achieve self-respect and hope for themselves and the future. To obtain the skills, patients explore interventions that work for their individual personality and circumstance – then, while they are in a safe haven, they have to practice, practice, practice.
Residential Services are for those that can benefit from a safe, respectful environment and who are:
- Unable to maintain meaningful sobriety long enough for the brain to heal from addictive behaviors in an outpatient setting
- In need of a safe, respectful environment to start believing in one’s self
- Lacking motivation or skill to maintain meaningful recovery
Santé Center for Healing takes pride in being able to work with the most challenging addictions and dual diagnosis patients because of the caliber, qualifications, and experience of the Clinical and Nursing Staff, skilled in utilizing a spectrum of structured interdisciplinary clinical and experiential therapies. The multiple therapeutic modalities combine in an integrated approach to addiction to address mind, body, and emotions - distinguishing Santé from other treatment centers. The scope of the psychiatric evaluation, nursing assessment and psychosocial interviews are designed to illicit a thorough mental health and substance use disorder history.
Identifiable characteristics of a typically successful patient includes:
- Individuals with an early history and pattern of use/abuse, recognize the pattern as changing and becoming progressive; after some of their own best efforts they acknowledge they cannot stop on their own and seek professional help.
- Individuals that have experienced a familial history that is positive for substance abuse and addiction, see their own similar behavior and seek help after their first few experiences.
- Individuals that have been diverting controlled substances were detected early by screening for the drugs at their workplace or by third-party observation and were given a choice to self-report or to be reported. Both of these groups have a good prognosis if they complete treatment successfully, although self-reporters appear to do better.
- Professionals for whom the diversion habit is noted early due to the limited size of their practice; frequently the need for the drug outweighs clandestine methods to seek the drug (i.e. the drug closet is empty of control substances, prescription writing for control substances escalates or drugs are sought unknowingly from friends who have control substances for legitimate reasons).
- Individuals who report feeling a sense of relief that their secret is out once they are discovered, intervened on and are absolutely convinced they need professional help and are highly motivated to change.
- Individuals for whom there is external motivation to stay in treatment long enough to experience some success when faced with major craving and stress, and for whom the motivation moves to an internal source rather than external. Strangely, these become some of the most enduring recovering patients.
- Individuals who trust the process and do not try to determine their own course of treatment.
- Individuals who will not give up the pursuit of their illusion for a truly changed life.
Here is a checklist of things to bring.
