Fentanyl Addiction Treatment Program in Arizona

Inpatient Services

The next step in treatment is usually inpatient services, also known as residential treatment. This form of treatment is when clients stay on-site at the treatment facility. Inpatient treatment can allow clients to focus on their recovery without any outside triggers. Inpatient treatment is beneficial because it includes 24/7 staff that can help with the detox process, individualized treatment plans, and arts and recreational activities as well.

Residential treatment can be short-term or long-term. Short-term stays typically last from three weeks to a month. Because of how brief the stay is, short-term residential treatment is usually an intensive program. This allows clients to still experience the recovery journey within a shorter time frame.

Long-term residential treatment can be anywhere from a month to six months, and can even go longer in some cases. This type of treatment works best for people who are severely addicted to a substance as that client can start to build life skills as well as coping mechanisms.

Mindfulness is a strategy that teaches clients how to remain in the present moment, not worrying about what came before or will come after. Distress tolerance is also learned in DBT. This skill teaches clients how to cope with stressful situations by tolerating those situations and not trying to change what they are. Along with these skills, DBT teaches interpersonal effectiveness. This skill will help clients learn how to respectfully ask for what they want and how to deny someone’s requests as well. Clients will be able to express themselves in a much healthier way while still maintaining their relationships with family and friends.

One of the final blocks of DBT that is learned is emotion regulation. Emotion regulation teaches a person how to change intense emotional reactions that negatively impact their life and celebrate the emotions that lead to a more positive outcome.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Another therapy we use is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which focuses on teaching awareness of negative thinking and how to respond to difficult situations more effectively. Typically, a therapist practicing CBT will encourage you to open up and talk out your feelings. Don’t feel bad if this is difficult for a while. It is perfectly normal to struggle with discussing those feelings and challenging thoughts in CBT.

CBT is a form of therapy that is widely used and works on changing the behavioral and thinking patterns of clients. To change behavioral patterns, CBT might involve:

• Role-playing with your therapist to prepare for an interaction with someone (a parent or family member, for example)
• Learning how to calm your mind and relax (this could be learning about meditation or even mindfulness)
• Facing your fears instead of avoiding them (facing the consequences of your actions instead of avoiding them, for example)

CBT will change your thinking patterns as well as you will learn about how to use problem-solving skills to deal with certain situations and will develop more self-confidence. You will also learn how to stop your thoughts from overtaking you and how to look at them realistically.

It is not uncommon for CBT to have “homework.” This homework would be practicing outside of the session what you learned in therapy. This could be writing down feelings as you experience them.

Family Therapy

One of the most difficult parts of recovery is confronting the people that you affected during fentanyl addiction. Unfortunately, the people we end up hurting the most are the people closest to us: our loved ones. This is why Pinnacle Peak Recovery offers family therapy.

On both sides, there is pain. There is anger, resentment, confusion, and sadness. If those feelings aren’t addressed in the proper way, they can show themselves in different areas of the family’s life. Family therapy aims to have families air out their grievances so they can begin to rebuild the bridges that have felt broken.

Family therapy can address how the family was affected by the client’s addiction, and the client can address what they need from the family to help with recovery. Family therapy is a start toward mending those relationships and growing even stronger together.

Co-Occurring Disorder Care

Plenty of times, there is an underlying mental health disorder along with an addiction. These are called co-occurring disorders, and these are very common. Pinnacle Peak Recovery understands how common this is, which is why we offer treatment for co-occurring disorders, also known as dual diagnosis treatment.

About one-third of people dealing with mental health disorders also deal with substance use disorder (SUD), according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Some of the most common disorders that clients deal with are:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Bipolar disorder

These are some common ones, but there are many more mental health disorders that clients struggle with while battling fentanyl addiction.

We treat clients holistically, which means that we treat the whole person, not just the addiction. We have an in-depth assessment so we can learn about the client’s history and find out what they might be struggling with. Tackling both the fentanyl addiction and the mental health disorder can help the client in the long run as they can begin to understand the underlying cause of the addiction more, and can get help for the mental disorder to find healthy ways to cope without fentanyl.

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Pinnacle Peak Recovery’s fentanyl addiction treatment in Scottsdale, Arizona, typically begins with detox that lasts around five to 10 days to provide you with the safest and most comfortable experience possible.

You will then receive personalized treatment tailored to your unique needs. We have effective programs led by experienced professionals to help you learn new life skills that will benefit you on the road to recovery. You’ll also learn what contributes to your addiction and how to manage it.

Last, but certainly not least, you will be given everything you need to prevent relapse and live a sober life. To learn more, call 833-750-1742.

FAQs About Fentanyl and Opioid Addiction

What is fentanyl used for?

Other than as an intoxicant, fentanyl is used for severe pain, typically for severe pain after surgeries.

How strong is fentanyl?

Fentanyl is one of the most potent substances that is known. It is 80-100 times stronger than morphine. Even a tiny amount (2mg, which weighs a bit more than a light feather) can cause an overdose.

What is fentanyl made from?

Fentanyl is similar to other opioids such as morphine, but it is synthetic, or man-made, which means that scientists made the substance in labs using the chemical structure of opioids.