Rehabilitation for Drugs and Alcohol Albany NY

An addict is like steeply sloping ground. If you put almost anything on it, it’s going to roll down. It might not roll immediately, but the slightest disruption and whatever you’ve put on there is going to come crashing down, just because that’s how gravity works with angles.

Addictions Care Center of Albany
(518) 434-2367
115 Ontario Street
Albany, NY
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Halfway house
Types of Care
Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days), Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Women, Men, DUI/DWI offenders, Criminal justice clients

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Hospitality House
(518) 434-6468
271 Central Avenue
Albany, NY
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days)

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Equinox Inc
(518) 434-6135
95 Central Avenue
Albany, NY
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Women, Men, DUI/DWI offenders

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The Addictions Care Center of Albany
(518) 465-7388
Cap District Psy Center
Albany, NY
Hotline
(518) 465-7388
Services Provided
Detoxification, Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less)

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The Addictions Care Center
(518) 434-8083
90 McCarty Avenue
Albany, NY
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Halfway house, Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days)
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Women, Men
Language Services
Spanish

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Saint Peters Addiction Recovery Center
(518) 458-8888
845 Central Avenue
Albany, NY
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Women, Men, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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The Next Step Inc
(518) 465-5249
276 Sherman Street
Albany, NY
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days)
Special Programs/Groups
Women

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820 River Street Inc
(518) 465-8034x126
134 Franklin Street
Albany, NY
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Gays and Lesbians, Women, Men, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
Spanish

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Hope House Inc
(518) 453-8351
890 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY
Services Provided
Halfway house

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Trinity Institution
(518) 436-1104
76-82 2nd Street
Albany, NY
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days)

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Rehabilitation for Drugs and Alcohol

The problem with drug alcohol rehabilitation is that you’re dealing with addicts. Addicts are not like normal people. You can compare them to the ground. If the ground is flat, nothing slides down it. You can rest pretty much anything on that flat surface, and the things’ behavior is inert. It just sits there, doing its job being flat ground.

An addict is like steeply sloping ground. If you put almost anything on it, it’s going to roll down. It might not roll immediately, but the slightest disruption and whatever you’ve put on there is going to come crashing down, just because that’s how gravity works with angles.

Successful Drug Alcohol Rehabilitation

The only action someone can take to keep from backsliding into oblivion (i.e. drug abuse, alcohol abuse and death) is to embrace drug alcohol rehabilitation wholeheartedly. Drug alcohol rehabilitation puts brakes on the entire self-destructive cyclic process of abuse. It’s not a magic bullet though; what it does is teach the addicted personality type how to handle living without drugs. It teaches the addict how to live without drugs; how to find and keep connected to a support community; even how to become part of that support community themselves, thereby helping the addict to save his or her own life.

Drug alcohol rehabilitation helps individuals overcome the complex medical challenges that face them; it helps individuals to overcome the physical addiction; the cognitive booby tra...

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