Heroin Treatment Centers Shafter CA

Heroin treatment centers around the U.S. are available for those looking to recover from the drug and live a clean and sober life. Though many drugs are highly addictive, few are as difficult to detox from as is heroin. Heroin treatment centers employ a variety of treatment methods and highly trained professionals to help recovering addicts wean themselves from the physical addiction of the drug, learn about the emotional or mental behaviors that enabled them to become addicted to the drug, as well as learn to live a life free from the addiction.

Teen Challenge International
(661) 746-4917
650 Riverside Avenue
Shafter, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Detoxification
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days)
Special Programs/Groups
Men

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Kern County Mental Health Department
(661) 758-7300
930 F Street
Wasco, CA
Hotline
(661) 868-8000
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Women, Men, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
Vietnamese

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Citizens for the Betterment of Comm/
(661) 832-8504
3316 Laverne Street
Bakersfield, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Detoxification
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days)
Special Programs/Groups
Women, Residential beds for clients' children

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Kern County Mental Health
(661) 868-6100
1401 L Street
Bakersfield, CA
Hotline
(661) 868-8000
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Pregnant/postpartum women, Women, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Legacy Behavioral Services
(661) 861-1155
2105 F Street
Bakersfield, CA
Hotline
(661) 861-1155
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Detoxification, Halfway house, Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days), Outpatient
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired, Spanish

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Special Treatment Education and
(661) 587-8817
10822 Rosedale Highway
Bakersfield, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, DUI/DWI offenders
Language Services
Spanish

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Good Samaritan Hospital Southwest
(661) 398-1800x209
5201 White Lane
Bakersfield, CA
Hotline
(661) 398-1800
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Detoxification, Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Hospital inpatient, Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired, Spanish

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Westcare California Inc
(661) 321-3124
4520 California Avenue
Bakersfield, CA
Hotline
(661) 321-3124
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with HIV/AIDS, Gays and Lesbians, Pregnant/postpartum women, Women, Men, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
Spanish

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Chumash Council of Bakersfield
(661) 327-4030x211
1617 30th Street
Bakersfield, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents

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Aegis Institute Inc
(661) 328-0245
501 West Columbus Street
Bakersfield, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Criminal justice clients
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Heroin Treatment Centers

Heroin Treatment Centers Throughout the Country Offer Recovering Addicts, Families Hope

Heroin treatment centers around the U.S. are available for those looking to recover from the drug and live a clean and sober life. Though many drugs are highly addictive, few are as difficult to detox from as is heroin. Heroin treatment centers employ a variety of treatment methods and highly trained professionals to help recovering addicts wean themselves from the physical addiction of the drug, learn about the emotional or mental behaviors that enabled them to become addicted to the drug, as well as learn to live a life free from the addiction.

Through methadone, a prescription detox treatment used at many heroin treatment centers, recovering addicts do not have nearly as severe physical withdrawal symptoms as they would have if no prescription detox help was available.

 Heroin Treatment Centers Recognize the Highly Addictive Properties of Heroin

Heroin is so difficult a drug to stop taking because of the very nature of the drug itself. By augmenting naturally occurring euphoric hormones in the brain, heroin, a semi-synthetic opiod drug, makes the user feel pleasure and heightened good feelings. Eventually, because the brain recognizes that these pleasure hormones are being introduced into the brain rather than made by the body itself, the body stops producing its own hormones. The addict then must shoot up heroin in order to feel better or even just to feel normal.

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