Alcohol & Substance Abuse Treatments

Houghton House can be a lifeline for you on your journey toward recovery. Here’s how it can specifically help you:

1. Assessment and Customized Plan: Upon arrival, you’ll undergo a thorough assessment. The team will understand your unique needs, history, Substance Abuse and challenges. From there, they’ll create a personalized treatment plan tailored to your situation.
2. Safe Detoxification: If you’re physically dependent on substances, Houghton House provides a safe environment for detox. Medical professionals will manage withdrawal symptoms, ensuring your safety and comfort.
3. Holistic Approach: Beyond addressing the physical aspects, Houghton House focuses on your emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. You’ll engage in therapies, counseling, and activities that promote holistic healing.
4. Dual Diagnosis Support: If you have co-occurring mental health issues, Houghton House specializes in dual diagnosis treatment. They’ll address both addiction and any underlying psychological conditions.
5. Therapeutic Interventions: You’ll participate in various therapeutic modalities, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and group therapy. These sessions help you explore emotions, coping mechanisms, and triggers.
6. Aftercare and Relapse Prevention: Leaving rehab can be challenging. Houghton House offers aftercare programs, ongoing support for Substance Abuse and relapse prevention strategies. You won’t face recovery alone; they’ll be with you every step of the way.

Remember, seeking help is a courageous step. Houghton House can provide the tools and guidance you need to reclaim your life from Substance Abuse and addiction. 

Our Addiction treatment options below may include, interventions, dual diagnosis, mental health and relapse prevention support. Houghton House offers the full continuum of Addiction Treatment care helping patients with alcohol issues, commonly abused drugs and other types of Substance Abuse recovery. As well as ongoing addiction therapy to support and stop relapses and help with depression.

Alcohol Detox & Drug Addiction Treatment at the Best Rehab in Johannesburg

The six-step addiction treatment process includes:

1. Inpatient treatment includes the detox phase, and therapy sessions dealing with the patient’s drink & substance abuse and linked issues. This spans primary care (4-6 weeks)
2. Secondary care  Extended Care Our General Addiction Programme facilitates and allows for time for greater recovery, education, goal setting and lifestyle change in clients. (4-12 weeks)
3. Outpatient treatment Monday – Friday and include full-time group therapy treatment, addiction recovery and private counselling sessions around alcohol & substance abuse.
4. Tertiary Care Halfway House communal living is an important component for Addicts’ successful tertiary care programme.
5. Long Term Care The focus of this extended treatment is to integrate patients back into society to encourage and develop their capacity to be economically independent and happy.
6. Medical aids and Hospital Plans We work closely with them and generally they do cover much of drug addiction and Substance Abuse treatment costs.

First Steps in Substance Abuse Treatment

For many people, the first step toward recovery is coming to terms with their personal struggle with Substance Abuse dependence. The next step is which approaches for drug addiction recovery are considered and a treatment programme that will help restore health, well-being and life. Patients with severe forms of addiction, opioid dependence, prescription drugs or other illicit drug co-occurring disorders may have to do a medically assisted detox to overcome withdrawal symptoms before the rehab process takes place. After our treatment programme, it is always recommended to continue the lessons learned in residential treatment by attending ongoing support groups and therapy sessions.
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The Video shows Addicts discussing their accountability or lack of it in their addiction and the hope they have.

Medical Assessments and Counselling

Services like medical assessments, individual, family therapy and group counselling, supervised recreational activities, and treatment approaches are incorporated into each of our addiction treatment outpatient rehab and inpatient programmes.
Lengths of stay for addiction recovery are structured to accommodate the individual needs of recovering addicts at various points in their recovery. From treatments for substance abuse, detoxification and reintegration into the community.
It’s crucial to choose the right rehab. Our rehab centres programmes and treatment facilities accommodate all levels of care in inpatient rehab or intensive outpatient treatment programmes. Our services dealing with abuse and mental health are delivered in a step-down manner. Decreasing in intensity as the patient progresses through treatment options for substance abuse and the scourge of alcohol abuse which is rife in our community

Treatment Options and Approaches for Addiction Treatment

Houghton House professionals at South Africa’s top Addiction centre look below the surface of commonly abused drugs and types of therapy to delve into abuse treatment detail that can complicate and contribute to self-harming addictive behaviour patterns. If it’s an issue of dealing and struggling with mental health, bipolar disorder, eating disorders or even mental illness.

Our addiction recovery treatment programme is based on evidence-based cognitive behavioural therapy, educational, and medical practices. To promote and support relapse prevention in individuals. As they move into recovery and begin living a constructive life. Houghton House professional staff follow a proven and effective treatment programme based on the 12 Step programmes and the Minnesota Model. This programme addresses addiction, treatment and health issues that can stand between you and your lifelong recovery.
The recovery process of drug addicts from addiction isn’t easy. Drug abusers and alcoholics in residential treatment attempting to maintain long-term sobriety find it takes a significant amount of willpower and self-discipline to achieve but, you’re never alone in your journey. Building strong relationships with others in recovery who can relate to what you’re going through is important and part of the process. Family, friends and other loved ones are also important and have your best interests at heart during this time.

The road to recovery for recovering addicts is dependent on types of treatment and relies on how much is put into the process of recovery from drug or alcohol substance abuse. Here is a link to our different locations and services.

Independent Approach To Addiction

At the Houghton House Group of Treatment Centres we believe that Addiction Treatment Approach can be seen as synonymous with dependence and the antidote to dependence is independence. Our programmes are designed to promote a shift from dependence to independence. In this way, clients are able to start dealing with life on its own terms rather than remaining stuck in adolescence.

This does not necessarily entail only financial independence, but also a process of maturation. Clients learn how to tolerate the discomforts of life, to delay gratification and deal with disappointment without the use of drugs. By moving through our recovery process, men and women begin to see that life requires effort and is not meant to be easy, but with our Addiction Treatment Approach, rehabilitation can be rewarding and filled with happiness despite occasional hardships.

This shift away from an amusement-park mentality unfolds as individuals learn to take responsibility for their emotions and for their own day-to-day functioning. This can begin with seemingly insignificant details of their daily life, from washing a car to attending appointments on time or following through with verbal commitments. This psychic shift is not about externalising or blaming their dysfunction on external factors but is rather focused on methods of finding and maintaining a new and different way of being.

Based on the understanding that addiction is not a moral failing, but a recognised and diagnosable disease, we believe that individuals suffering from addictive disorders deserve and require evidence-based treatment which targets the whole person as well as the disease. Throughout the process, every client is treated with compassion, dignity, and respect.

Our concept in the effective treatment of chemical dependency is based on a cost-effective year-long treatment programme that is built around individual needs and designed to keep participants clean and sober. The programme decreases in intensity and cost as the year progresses. There is a dual focus on integrating participants back into society and facilitating long-term stable sobriety. We encourage participants to engage in a culture of recovery and form a long-lasting support structure through a commitment to the Twelve Step fellowship. There is also structured family involvement throughout the treatment process.

At the Houghton House Group of Treatment Centres, we have been treating addiction for over 24 years with our Addiction Treatment Approach.

Addiction Treatment should last a year

Good outcomes are contingent on adequate treatment length. Research findings are that in most cases treatment of fewer than ninety days is of limited effectiveness. Programmes lasting significantly longer than ninety days are related to positive outcomes. This helps to explain the perception that addiction treatment is ineffective. Treatment does work, it’s just that it often doesn’t go on long enough for it to be effective.

Treatment should be integrated

At the Houghton House Group of Treatment Centres, we offer a full range of integrated treatment options. This includes primary, secondary and tertiary care, all offered on an inpatient and outpatient basis. What this means practically is that you may start your recovery by completing a four or six-week inpatient programme, or a six-week outpatient programme. On completion of this first phase, you may go into a secondary care facility (ours is called The Gap), or do an aftercare programme as an outpatient (ours is called First Step). You may then proceed to the next phase which could be doing one group a week or just continuing your individual work with your focus therapist. Family members are brought in at all points in the treatment process. Our unique selling point at Houghton House is that long-term treatment planning starts when we first meet you. When you are in the first phase you’ll already be meeting the team that will be working with you in the next phase. By viewing addiction as a disease, and offering continuing care and monitoring, we are able to effectively assist people to get clean and stay clean, no matter what.

Treatment should be affordable

Our model of viewing effective treatment as being a year-long process is based on the idea that the longer clean time a person gets, the less intensive and therefore the less costly treatment should become. Whilst primary treatment represents a life-saving investment of inestimable value in the life of the addicted person and their family, continuing care options become considerably more affordable. All our services can be claimed from medical aid.

Fighting your Addiction may feel miserable – with our treatment options it doesn’t have to be.

We’ve seen innumerable people stride out our gates after treatment options, ready to get on with a new, satisfying natural life in recovery. You too can get better.

Houghton House Group Of Addiction & Mental Heath Centers offers treatment programs for substance and alcohol abuse, for people battling with drug and alcohol demons & problems. Our medicinal and behavioural specialists fashion a treatment plan exclusive to your requirements. You’ll improve alongside people sharing like battles. Houghton House Group Of Addiction & Mental Heath Centers provides the treatment practice that’s winning and optimal for your needs.

Treatment Options Substance Abuse that We Treat

Our substance abuse treatment programs in Johannesburg for all types of substance abuse. Some of our most common programmes include:

1. Alcohol addiction treatment programs
2. Cocaine addiction treatment programs
3. Prescription drug addiction treatment programs
4. Heroin addiction treatment programs
5. Prescription drug abuse
6. We also treat dual diagnoses and addictive disorders. If you have mental problems and are you’re abusing one or more substance
   Treatment Options Substance Abuse.

Houghton House Group Of Addiction & Mental Heath Centers Treatment Options

Houghton House Group Of Addiction & Mental Heath Centers offers the full range of care for alcohol or drug addiction. We meet you halfway on the road to recovery with both inpatient and outpatient programs. We also offer medical detox for those in need.

Medical Alcohol and Drug Detox

Attempting alcohol or drug detox on your own can be painful and hazardous. The Centers medical team ensure detox is safe and as relaxed as possible. We can prescribe medications that may ease withdrawal symptoms. Specialists at our medical detox centres in Johannesburg will screen your vital signs and carefully be there for your needs.

Residential Treatment

Our Mental Health Centers inpatient rehab programs in Johannesburg allow you time and space to focus on getting healthier.

Days are occupied with a range of treatment methods for drug addiction and alcohol abuse. Complete individual and group therapy allow you to delve into issues that add to substance abuse. You’ll learn strong ways to cope, which can help avoid relapsing. You’ll be occupied in recovery and apply your days and nights in a controlled environment. Our inpatient rehabs help you build robust groundwork in recovery.

Our residential programme also includes a relapse prevention track. This programme is a good choice for people who’ve experienced many relapses.

Learn more about Houghton House Group of Treatment Centres and the efforts we’ve taken to become a premier addiction treatment centre of choice and how we can help you reclaim your health and your life from addiction.

Treatment For Myself 

Drinking or drug use affecting your life? Can’t seem to stop? No matter how bad things are there is always hope.  In our experience recovery from drinking and drug abuse is always possible, no matter whether you are young or old, a man or woman, or even whether you have been to treatment or not.  Call 011 787 9142 and find out if you need professional help.

Studies show that one in 10 South Africans across all socio-economic and cultural boundaries will suffer from chemical dependency in one form or another in their lifetime. Since 1995 Houghton House has been helping men and women to break free from their addiction and start living rewarding and meaningful lives.

Through our ongoing success, Houghton House has expanded to a Group of Treatment Programmes that covers primary, secondary and tertiary treatment options. As one of the first treatment centres in South Africa to embrace the Minnesota Model of multidisciplinary treatment. We offer a full spectrum of care for individuals from all walks of life, including medical assessments, inpatient and outpatient treatment, halfway house (transitional housing) accommodation, as well as recovery support and relapse prevention.

This continuum of care allows people to enter treatment at the setting most appropriate for the severity of their addiction and permits step-up or step-down adjustments as needed.

Get in touch with us today and let us help you find out whether you have a problem and how we can help you.