Rehabilitation for Drugs and Alcohol Porterville CA

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.

A Step Inc
(559) 788-2740
287 North Hockett Street
Porterville, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Pregnant/postpartum women, Women, Criminal justice clients

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Indian Health Services
(559) 781-8797
1010 North Reservation Road
Porterville, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days), Outpatient, Partial hospitalization/day treatment
Special Programs/Groups
Seniors/older adults, Men
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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SRS Recovery Services
(559) 789-9881
130 East Mill Avenue
Porterville, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Pregnant/postpartum women, Women
Language Services
Spanish

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A Solution Thru Treatment Education
(559) 788-2740
287 North Hockett Street
Porterville, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Pregnant/postpartum women, Women
Language Services
Spanish

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Alternative Services
(559) 685-8283
215 South M Street
Tulare, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, DUI/DWI offenders, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired, Spanish

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Tulare County Health and Human Servs
(559) 788-1140
303 East Olive Avenue
Porterville, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Language Services
Spanish

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Alcohol and Drug Services of Tulare
(559) 783-2402
215 North D Street
Porterville, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, DUI/DWI offenders, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired, Spanish

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PAAR Center
(559) 781-0107
237 West Belleview Avenue
Porterville, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days)
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Kings View
(559) 688-7531
559 East Bardsley Avenue
Tulare, CA
Hotline
(559) 733-6877
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Detoxification, Methadone Maintenance, Methadone Detoxification, Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Pregnant/postpartum women

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Tulare County Health and Human Servs
(559) 687-6864
1062 South K Street
Tulare, CA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Language Services
Spanish

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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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