Addiction Treatment Centers: Complete Guide

Finding the Right Addiction Treatment Center
Your Complete Guide

Introduction: Healing Goes Deeper Than Just Quitting

Choosing an addiction treatment center is one of the life-changing decisions you’ll ever make. Whether you’re looking for help for yourself or someone you love, it can feel overwhelming. There are thousands of treatment centers in the United States, each offering different approaches and programs. So how do you find the right one?

At Mycelia Monastery, we believe that true healing from addiction goes much deeper than just stopping drugs or alcohol. Yes, medical detox and treatment are important first steps. But lasting recovery means healing what caused the addiction in the first place, things like trauma, feeling disconnected, spiritual emptiness, and unhealed pain.

This guide will help you:

This guide will help you understand different types of treatment centers, learn how to evaluate quality and find the right fit, navigate insurance and costs, discover what happens during and after treatment, and find ways to heal the deeper causes of addiction.

Modern treatment centers provide safe, peaceful places for healing

Mycelia Monastery's Role: Guiding You Beyond Treatment and Into Wholeness

We start as your navigation partner, ensuring you find the precise, licensed care facility best suited for your situation. But our true mission is enduring support and spiritual growth. We remain engaged long after treatment concludes, providing structure for sober living, cultivating strong community, and helping you root into deep, sustainable healing through spiritual education and support.

Important to know: Mycelia Monastery is not a treatment center ourselves. We help you find the right licensed facility, and then we provide ongoing support. All medical treatment comes from qualified, licensed providers.

What Are Addiction Treatment Centers?

Addiction treatment centers, also called rehab centers or recovery centers, are specialized facilities that help people recover from drug or alcohol addiction. They provide medical care, therapy, and support in structured environments designed for healing.

Treatment centers provide several essential services. Medical help includes safe detox, getting drugs or alcohol out of your system with proper supervision. Medications help manage cravings and withdrawal symptoms. Regular health checkups address both addiction and general wellness. Mental health evaluation and treatment happen alongside addiction care because these conditions often occur together.

Therapy and counseling form the foundation of recovery. One-on-one counseling helps you explore what caused your addiction and develop personal coping strategies. Group therapy connects you with other people in recovery who understand what you’re experiencing. Family therapy repairs damaged relationships and educates loved ones about addiction. Trauma therapy addresses painful experiences that often drive substance use. You learn new ways to think and cope without relying on drugs or alcohol. Motivation-building work helps you stay committed to recovery.

Who Needs Treatment?

You might need professional treatment if you’re physically dependent on drugs or alcohol. Maybe you’ve tried to quit on your own but couldn’t. Substances might be causing problems at work, in relationships, or with your health. You could have mental health issues alongside addiction that make recovery more complex. Your home environment might not be safe for trying to get sober. Or you simply need medical help to stop using safely.

The truth is that many people wait too long to seek help, thinking they should be able to handle it alone. Addiction is a medical condition, not a moral failing. Professional treatment gives you the tools and support that make recovery possible.

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Types of Treatment Centers

Understanding the different types of treatment helps you find what’s right for you. Each level of care serves different needs and situations.

Inpatient/Residential Treatment

Inpatient treatment means you live at the treatment center 24/7, usually for 30, 60, or 90 days. This intensive level of care works best for severe addiction needing medical monitoring, unsafe or triggering home environments, situations where you’ve tried outpatient treatment and relapsed, co-occurring mental health issues, or when you need structure away from your usual triggers.

You’ll have your own room or shared room with a structured daily schedule from morning to night. Multiple therapy sessions happen each day. Medical staff stays available 24/7 for safety and support. Phone and internet access might be limited at first to help you focus on healing without distractions.

The cost ranges from $5,000 to $80,000 or more per month depending on amenities and location. Despite the price variation, research shows that expensive doesn’t always mean better outcomes. Quality treatment programs focus on evidence-based therapies and qualified staff rather than luxury amenities.

Inpatient treatment center common area with comfortable seating

Outpatient Treatment Programs

Outpatient treatment means you come for treatment during the day but live at home. This option works well when you have responsibilities you can’t leave or a supportive home environment that aids recovery.

Different levels of outpatient care exist. Standard outpatient involves one to two sessions per week and represents the least intensive option. It works well for mild addiction or as a step-down after finishing inpatient treatment. Intensive outpatient (IOP) provides 9 to 12 hours of treatment per week, usually spread across three to four days. This level suits moderate addiction when you have good support at home. Partial hospitalization (PHP) offers the most intensive outpatient option at 20 to 30 hours per week over five to six days. It’s like inpatient treatment except you go home at night.

Outpatient treatment fits people with mild to moderate addiction, strong support systems at home, work or family obligations preventing a residential stay, budget constraints making inpatient unaffordable, or those stepping down after completing inpatient treatment. Online addiction treatment has expanded options, allowing you to access quality care from home with flexible scheduling.

Cost typically runs $1,500 to $10,000 per month depending on intensity and services provided.

Medical Detox Centers

Detox centers provide short medical stays lasting 3 to 10 days to safely remove drugs or alcohol from your system. This is a critical first step, but detox alone is not treatment. You need ongoing therapy and support after detox to address the underlying causes of addiction.

Medical detox becomes essential when you’re physically dependent and need medical monitoring. Alcohol withdrawal can be deadly without medical help due to seizure risk. Benzodiazepine withdrawal from drugs like Xanax or Valium is similarly dangerous and requires careful medical management. Opioid withdrawal from heroin, pills, or fentanyl feels extremely uncomfortable but usually isn’t medically dangerous, though professional support makes it much more bearable.

Never try to detox at home from alcohol, benzodiazepines, or heavy opioid use. The risks are too high.

During detox, nurses and doctors monitor you around the clock. Medications help manage withdrawal symptoms and keep you safe. You receive healthy food and fluids to help your body stabilize. The team works with you to plan where you’ll go for actual treatment after detox completes.

Cost runs about $300 to $800 per day, totaling approximately $2,100 to $5,600 for a typical week-long stay.

Specialized Treatment Programs

Certain situations require specialized approaches. Dual diagnosis programs treat mental health conditions and addiction simultaneously, which is essential if you have depression, anxiety, PTSD, or bipolar disorder alongside substance use. Gender-specific programs like men’s addiction treatment or women-only facilities address specific trauma and issues that affect each gender differently.

LGBTQ+ friendly programs provide safe, judgment-free environments with staff trained on specific issues facing the LGBTQ+ community. Faith-based programs integrate prayer and religious practices within a Christian, Buddhist, or other spiritual framework.

Teen addiction treatment programs focus on age-appropriate therapy with heavy family involvement because adolescent brains and social situations differ dramatically from adults. Medication-assisted treatment programs emphasize medicines like Suboxone or Methadone, which work best for opioid addiction involving heroin, pills, or fentanyl.

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How to Choose the Right Place for You

Finding the right fit dramatically improves your chance of staying sober. The process starts with understanding your specific needs.

Figure Out What You Need

Ask yourself these questions. What drugs or alcohol are you struggling with? Do you need medical detox? Do you have depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues? Is your home environment supportive or triggering? Can you take 30 to 90 days away from work and family? What can you afford, and what does your insurance cover? What approach feels right to you, whether that’s 12-step programs like AA, therapy-focused treatment, spiritual approaches, or something else?

If you’re seeking help for a family member, understanding how to help someone with addiction makes the process less overwhelming and more effective.

Not sure where to start? Schedule a free talk with us and we’ll help you figure out what you need and find the right match.

Make Sure They're Legitimate

Every legitimate treatment center must have state licensing from the health department. National accreditation from organizations like the Joint Commission, CARF, or listing in the SAMHSA directory demonstrates quality standards. Qualified staff including licensed therapists, certified addiction counselors, and doctors or nurse practitioners should be clearly identified.

You can verify credentials by searching your state’s health department website, or ask us to verify for you. Never commit to a program without confirming these basic legitimacy markers.

Understand Their Treatment Approach

Different centers use different philosophies and methods. Finding one that matches your values increases your engagement and success.

Twelve-step based programs follow the AA or NA model, focusing on spirituality and a “Higher Power.” You attend meetings for life and must stay completely abstinent. The benefit is free support groups available everywhere forever. The challenge is that spiritual language doesn’t work for everyone.

Therapy-based treatment uses scientifically proven methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. These programs typically support medications when appropriate, such as Suboxone for opioid addiction. They help address trauma and mental health issues. Research consistently shows these methods work, though they may not address spiritual emptiness that many people feel.

Holistic or whole-person treatment combines therapy with practices like yoga, meditation, nutrition, and acupuncture. The approach treats mind, body, and spirit together rather than just symptoms. When done well, this addresses all parts of you. However, some “holistic” places aren’t clinically rigorous enough, so verify they use evidence-based therapies alongside alternative practices.

Faith-based programs operate within a Christian, Buddhist, or other religious framework, including prayer and scripture study. These work beautifully if you have strong faith but may not resonate if you’re not religious.

Harm reduction approaches meet you where you are without demanding you quit immediately. The focus is on reducing harm and improving life quality at whatever pace works for you. This creates lower pressure and more compassion, though some people worry it enables continued use.

Our perspective at Mycelia Monastery: We believe in combining the best of all approaches: proven therapy methods PLUS healing spiritual disconnection, trauma, and finding meaning in life.

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Ask the Right Questions

Before committing to any program, ask these critical questions about their approach, team, results, and aftercare planning.

About their approach: What’s your treatment philosophy? What specific therapies do you use? How do you handle mental health issues alongside addiction? Do you use medications for treatment? What does a typical day look like? How many staff members per client?

About their team: What are your therapists’ credentials? Is there a doctor on site, and how often? Will I have the same therapist throughout treatment?

About results: What percentage of people complete your program? How do you measure success? Do you track how people are doing at 6 months, 1 year, 5 years after leaving? Can I talk to someone who graduated your program?

About aftercare: What happens when I leave? Do you have ongoing support or alumni programs? Will you help me find sober living housing? Do you connect me with a therapist in my area?

Warning signs to watch for include vague answers about their approach, no medical staff mentioned, pressure to sign up immediately, unwillingness to share outcome data, and no aftercare plan mentioned. These red flags suggest the program prioritizes profits over patient care.

Visit If You Can

If possible, visit the facility before committing. Look for cleanliness and good maintenance. Notice whether staff seem caring and professional. Observe if current clients seem engaged or zoned out. Assess whether the place feels safe and therapeutic. Check if there are private spaces for confidential therapy sessions.

Trust your gut. If something feels off, it probably is.

Think About Location

Staying local offers benefits like easy family visits, smoother transition back to your community, and potentially better insurance coverage. Going out of state provides distance from triggers and old friends who use, a fresh start feeling, and sometimes access to better specialized programs not available nearby.

The truth is that location matters less than the quality of treatment and the support you receive after leaving. Best substance abuse treatment centers can be found in many locations once you know what quality indicators to look for.

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What to Expect During Treatment

Knowing what to expect helps reduce anxiety and lets you prepare mentally for the journey ahead.

Phase 1: Intake (Days 1-3)

Intake involves comprehensive assessment. Staff ask detailed questions about your drug or alcohol use history. Mental health evaluation identifies co-occurring conditions. They learn about your family history and genetic factors. Together, you set realistic goals for treatment based on your situation.

Be completely honest. Hiding information about your use or health can be dangerous and makes treatment less effective. Medical staff need complete information to keep you safe and design the most effective treatment plan.

Be completely honest: Hiding information about your use or health can be dangerous and makes treatment less effective.

Phase 2: Detox If Needed (Days 1-10)

If you need medical detox, nurses and doctors monitor you 24/7 for withdrawal symptoms. Medications help with discomfort and keep you medically safe. You rest, eat nutritious food, and allow your body to stabilize. This happens before actual treatment and skill-building begin.

Withdrawal duration varies by substance. Alcohol withdrawal peaks at 24 to 72 hours and lasts 5 to 7 days. It can be deadly due to seizure risk and requires medical care. Opioid withdrawal from heroin, pills, or fentanyl peaks at 36 to 72 hours and lasts 7 to 10 days. It feels terrible but is rarely dangerous with proper support. Benzodiazepine withdrawal peaks at 1 to 2 weeks and can last 2 to 8 weeks. Like alcohol, it can be deadly due to seizures and needs slow, careful tapering. Cocaine and meth withdrawal don’t cause dangerous physical symptoms but create intense cravings, extreme tiredness, and depression.

Phase 3: Active Treatment (Weeks 1-12)

A typical day in treatment follows a structured schedule. You wake around 7 AM and have breakfast. Morning meditation or quiet reflection starts the day centered. Group therapy runs from 9 to 10:30 AM. One-on-one counseling happens two to three times weekly at scheduled times. Lunch break provides rest at noon. Afternoon education sessions at 1 PM teach about addiction and coping skills. Recreation, yoga, or art therapy fill the 2:30 PM slot. Process groups or 12-step meetings happen at 4 PM. Dinner comes at 5:30 PM. Free time in the evening allows for journaling, phone calls, and personal reflection. Evening check-in with your group happens at 8 PM. Wind-down time leads to lights out around 10 PM.

Weekends include more free time, family visits, outings, and recreational activities that teach you to enjoy life without substances.

You’ll experience several types of therapy. One-on-one counseling lets you explore what caused your addiction, work through trauma, develop personal coping strategies, and set individual goals. Group therapy provides space to share your story with others in recovery, realize you’re not alone, practice vulnerability, and give and receive support. Family therapy heals damaged relationships, educates family about addiction as a disease, rebuilds trust, and creates a support plan for after you leave.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify negative thought patterns, challenge distorted thinking, and replace harmful behaviors with healthy ones. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches you to manage intense emotions, practice mindfulness, improve relationships, and handle distress without using substances. Trauma therapy processes traumatic memories safely, releases trauma stored in your body, and heals root causes of addiction. Experiential therapies like equine therapy, adventure therapy with ropes courses or hiking, and art, music, or drama therapy provide hands-on healing experiences.

Phase 4: Planning for After (Final Weeks)

Getting ready for life after treatment is critical. You create a detailed relapse prevention plan, identify your specific triggers and coping strategies, set up outpatient therapy in your area, find sober living housing if needed, plan continued support through meetings and alumni groups, and set clear goals around work, relationships, and health.

This is where most treatment centers stop helping. But this is where Mycelia Monastery’s real work begins. We provide the ongoing support and community that prevents relapse and builds a life you don’t want to escape from.

How Much Does Treatment Cost?

Costs vary dramatically based on type, location, and amenities offered.

Medical detox runs $300 to $800 per day, totaling $2,100 to $5,600 for a typical week. Inpatient or residential treatment at standard facilities costs $5,000 to $20,000 per month. Mid-range programs run $20,000 to $40,000 per month. Luxury programs cost $40,000 to $120,000 or more per month.

Why such different prices? Location matters, with California coast facilities charging more than rural Midwest ones. Private rooms and fancy amenities increase costs. More staff per client provides more personal attention but costs more. Gourmet meals and spa services add expense. Ocean or mountain views command premium pricing. Famous or celebrity-focused centers charge the most.

Remember: Higher price doesn’t guarantee better results. A $100,000 per month luxury center may have the same success rate as a $15,000 per month standard place. What matters most is quality therapy and aftercare support, not luxury amenities.

Expensive treatment makes sense if you need total privacy due to being famous or high-profile, have complex trauma requiring specialized intensive care, have tried multiple standard programs without success, or have severe mental illness needing intensive psychiatric care.

Standard treatment works fine for first-time treatment seekers, straightforward addiction without major complications, people who are motivated to recover, and those with good support systems at home.

Will Insurance Cover Rehab?

Since 2010, insurance companies must cover addiction treatment as an essential health benefit under the Affordable Care Act.

Most plans cover medical detox fully or partially, inpatient treatment for 30 to 90 days with approval, outpatient treatment, medications for addiction like Suboxone and Naltrexone, and individual and group therapy.

Insurance usually doesn’t cover luxury amenities like spa services or private chefs, alternative therapies beyond medical necessity, out-of-network providers or covers much less, and experimental treatments.

Understanding Your Coverage

Before choosing a facility, find out whether they’re in your insurance network. In-network providers mean insurance covers 70 to 100 percent. Out-of-network means you pay 30 to 50 percent or more. Check your deductible, the amount you pay before insurance kicks in, usually $500 to $5,000 per year. Know your out-of-pocket maximum, the most you’ll pay in a year before insurance covers 100 percent. Understand if your plan needs pre-approval, which many require before you enter treatment. The facility should handle this process. Find out how many days insurance will initially cover, usually 30 days with option to request more with medical justification.

If insurance denies coverage, you can appeal. Request written explanation of the denial. Have the treatment center submit medical justification for continued care. Get your doctor to write why you need treatment. File a formal appeal, usually allowing three attempts. Contact your state insurance commissioner if all appeals fail. The good news is that 50 to 60 percent of denials get overturned on appeal.

If You Don't Have Insurance

Other payment options exist. Sliding scale centers charge based on your income, as low as $50 to $200 per month. State-funded programs offer free or very low-cost care, though often with long waitlists of 30 to 90 days and basic services only. Payment plans from many facilities offer monthly payments, often at 0 percent interest if paid within 12 to 24 months. Medical loans provide personal loans for medical expenses; shop around for the best interest rate. Crowdfunding through GoFundMe or Facebook fundraisers taps into friends and family who often want to help. Scholarships from some facilities and nonprofits provide funding assistance.

Does Treatment Actually Work?

Let’s talk honestly about success rates and what really helps people stay sober.

The Honest Truth

Treatment facilities often claim 60 to 90 percent success rates. The reality is that 40 to 60 percent of people stay sober at one year. Long-term, about 30 to 40 percent maintain sobriety at five years.

Why the difference between claimed and actual rates? Facilities cherry-pick good outcomes, use different definitions of “success,” and don’t track people long-term to see real results.

What Actually Helps You Stay Sober

Research shows specific factors matter most for long-term success. Staying in treatment for 90 days or longer produces much better outcomes than 30-day programs. Getting ongoing support after treatment is critical for long-term success. Treating mental health issues alongside addiction is essential because unaddressed depression or anxiety leads to relapse. Connection with your counselor matters; feeling understood and supported makes a real difference. Sober friends and support systems are essential for maintaining recovery. Having a compelling reason to stay sober, a clear “why,” drives commitment. Healing trauma is crucial because unhealed trauma drives relapse even years later.

What doesn’t predict success? Fancy amenities, price of treatment, celebrity endorsements, or beautiful locations don’t correlate with better outcomes.

The Truth About Relapse

Relapse is common, not a sign of failure. Forty to 60 percent of people relapse in the first year. Addiction is a chronic condition like diabetes that requires ongoing management. Relapse means treatment needs adjustment, not that you’re hopeless or weak. Many people need multiple treatment attempts before achieving long-term recovery.

Important insight: Success isn’t just about not using. It’s about better quality of life, reduced harm, rebuilt relationships, and personal growth. Some people achieve tremendous healing even if they have brief relapses along the way.

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What Happens After Treatment?

The most dangerous time in recovery is the first 90 days after leaving treatment.

Most relapses happen because you lose the structured environment that kept you focused, return to old triggers without adequate coping skills, lack an ongoing support system, have deeper issues that weren’t fully healed, or feel lost and disconnected without clear purpose.

Most treatment centers give you a binder of phone numbers, referrals to local therapists, and wish you good luck. This isn’t enough for most people.

What Real Ongoing Support Looks Like

Months 1 to 3 after treatment represent the critical period. You need weekly check-ins with a recovery coach, connection to sober living community, continuing therapy, group support meetings, crisis help available 24/7, and assistance with daily life challenges.

Months 4 to 12 focus on getting stable. Check-ins happen every other week as you build independence. Deeper trauma healing work continues. You build meaningful purpose beyond just staying sober. Real friendships develop. You start living as your new self rather than just “a person in recovery.”

Year 2 and beyond represents thriving, not just surviving. Monthly touchpoints maintain connection. Opportunities to help others give back. Ongoing spiritual growth continues. Contributing to community provides meaning. You live with purpose beyond just not using substances.

Components of Effective Aftercare

Sober living housing provides structured, drug-free environment with accountability from roommates. It serves as a bridge between treatment and complete independence, usually lasting 3 to 12 months.

Ongoing therapy means continuing counseling to work through ongoing challenges, adjusting coping strategies as needed, and addressing new issues as they arise in your evolving life.

Support groups like AA, NA, SMART Recovery, and Refuge Recovery offer free, lifelong support. They provide connection, accountability, and community with people who understand.

Building community includes finding meaningful work or volunteering, developing healthy friendships, pursuing hobbies and interests, and discovering purpose beyond staying sober.

Spiritual practice through meditation, yoga, prayer, or other modalities creates connection to something greater than yourself and helps you find meaning in life’s challenges.

Healing the Root Causes

Traditional treatment focuses on stopping drugs and alcohol. We focus on why you started using in the first place.

Common Root Causes

Unhealed trauma from childhood abuse or neglect, sexual assault, combat or PTSD, loss and grief, or accidents and violence often drives addiction. You used substances to numb pain you didn’t know how to process.

Feeling disconnected through loneliness and isolation, lack of real connections with people, experiences of rejection or abandonment, or social anxiety makes substances feel like the only relief available.

Spiritual emptiness creates a void where life feels meaningless, you have no sense of purpose, you feel disconnected from something greater, and experience a constant sense that “there must be more than this.”

Mental health issues like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, or personality disorders often co-occur with addiction. Substances become self-medication for unbearable emotional states.

Physical issues including chronic pain and emotional overwhelm make it hard to regulate emotions without chemical help.

Our Approach at Mycelia Monastery

We believe substances aren’t the problem. They’re your solution to a problem. Not a good solution, but a solution nonetheless. You weren’t using to feel good. You were using to feel less bad.

True healing requires creating safety so your body feels calm and secure. Processing trauma stored in your body, not just talking about it. Building real connections and relationships. Discovering meaning and purpose beyond just surviving. Reconnecting with spirit, however you understand that concept.

We help you through trauma therapy with licensed therapists, body-based healing practices, community connection and belonging, finding meaning and purpose, and legal plant medicine ceremonies where applicable within religious exemption frameworks.

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How We Can Help You

We’re not a treatment center. We’re your guides and long-term support system throughout your recovery journey.

1. Help You Find the Right Treatment Center

We help you figure out what you really need, research licensed treatment centers, check credentials and quality, navigate insurance complexities, ensure appropriate level of care, and make admission smooth.

Our process starts with a free phone call lasting 30 to 60 minutes. We work to understand your situation completely. We research 3 to 5 places that fit your specific needs. We present options with honest pros and cons. We help verify insurance coverage. We support you through the admission process and check in while you’re in treatment.

There’s no cost to you. Facilities compensate us for good referrals, but this doesn’t affect which programs we recommend. We only refer to places we genuinely trust.

2. Stay With You After Treatment (The Real Work)

What we provide includes weekly check-ins for the first 90 days, 24/7 crisis support when you need it, help finding and getting into sober living, connection with good therapists in your area, assistance building community, and ongoing accountability.

Months 1 to 3 involve intensive support during your most vulnerable time. Months 4 to 12 include check-ins every other week as you stabilize. Year 2 and beyond provides monthly support for long-term thriving.

3. Heal the Deeper Causes

Trauma therapy with licensed professionals uses approaches like EMDR for processing traumatic memories through eye movement, body-based trauma healing that works with stored experiences, internal family systems work with different parts of yourself, and making sense of plant medicine experiences when applicable.

Whole-person healing includes meditation and mindfulness practices, breathwork techniques, yoga and movement, nature-based healing, and legal plant medicine ceremonies where legally permitted. Sacred mushroom ceremonies under religious exemption, thorough preparation and integration support, community ceremony experiences, and strict adherence to legal boundaries guide this work.

Community and belonging come through regular gatherings and events, support circles, connection to Burning Man community experiences, and ways to give back and help others.

Why We're Different

Traditional treatment follows a simple path: treatment for 30 to 90 days, discharge, good luck. Mycelia Monastery takes a different approach: comprehensive assessment, help finding quality treatment, support during treatment, intensive ongoing support after, healing root causes, building authentic community, and long-term support for thriving.

We’re with you for the long haul, not just the initial crisis.

Who We Work Best With

You’re a good fit if you want more than just sobriety and desire transformation, you’re willing to do deep healing work, you’re open to spiritual approaches, you value community and real connection, you want to heal what caused the addiction, and you’re interested in legal plant medicine healing as one optional tool among many.

You might not be a fit if you only want a treatment referral with no follow-up, you’re not open to alternative healing modalities, or you’re not ready for deep personal work beyond surface-level change.

Common Questions Answered

How do I know if I need treatment?

If substance use causes problems in your life through damaged relationships, work difficulties, health issues, or legal troubles, and you’ve tried to cut back or stop but can’t, treatment can help. Signs you need professional help include using more than you intend, inability to quit despite trying, withdrawal symptoms when you stop, neglecting work or family, continuing despite negative consequences, and losing interest in things you used to enjoy.

What if I can't afford treatment?

Options include using insurance that most plans now cover, accessing state programs with free or sliding-scale fees, arranging payment plans, taking medical loans, applying for scholarships, and trying crowdfunding. We can help you find affordable options that fit your financial situation.

Can I work during outpatient treatment?

Standard outpatient with 1 to 2 sessions weekly usually allows full-time work. Intensive outpatient at 9 to 12 hours weekly often works with flexible scheduling. Partial hospitalization at 20 to 30 hours weekly makes working difficult but possible depending on your job. Online addiction treatment offers the most flexibility for maintaining employment.

How long is treatment?

Detox lasts 3 to 10 days. Inpatient treatment runs 30 to 90 days, with research showing 90 or more days works best. Outpatient treatment continues 3 to 12 months typically. Recovery itself is lifelong, but formal treatment is time-limited with varying durations based on individual needs.

Will my boss find out?

The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) protects your job for up to 12 weeks for substance abuse treatment. HIPAA protects your medical privacy. Your employer doesn’t need specific details. You can simply take medical leave without disclosing the reason.

What if I relapse after treatment?

Relapse is common and doesn’t mean you failed. It means treatment needs adjustment or you need more support. Many people need multiple attempts before achieving long-term recovery. Return to treatment or intensive support rather than giving up.

Can I bring my phone?

Policies vary by facility. Many allow limited phone access during evenings and weekends. Detox often means no phone initially. Ask the specific facility about their communication policies.

Do I have to believe in God?

No. While 12-step programs mention a “Higher Power,” you can define this however works for you: nature, the universe, human connection, science, or anything meaningful. Many places offer non-religious approaches entirely.

Is medication like Suboxone just replacing one addiction with another?

No. Medications for opioid addiction including Suboxone, Methadone, and Naltrexone are FDA-approved and proven effective. They don’t make you high when used correctly and significantly reduce overdose deaths. It’s like insulin for diabetes, managing a chronic condition appropriately.

How do I get someone to go to treatment?

You can’t force someone into recovery, but you can create conditions that make it more likely. Learn how to help someone with addiction through expressing concern without judgment, sharing specific examples of harm you’ve seen, offering to help research options, setting boundaries around enabling behavior, considering hiring an intervention specialist, and taking care of yourself through Al-Anon or therapy.

Ready to Get Started?

Whether you’re seeking treatment for yourself or helping someone you love, we’re here to guide you with compassion, expertise, and ongoing support.

Schedule Your Free Consultation

We’ll discuss your current situation, what kind of treatment you need, your options including inpatient, outpatient, and specialized programs, insurance verification, answers to all your questions, and next steps with no pressure.

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Keep Learning

More helpful pages:

Outside resources:

SAMHSA National Helpline: 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988
SMART Recovery: Evidence-based mutual support groups
Harm Reduction Coalition: Practical strategies for reducing harm

Mycelia Monastery is a spiritual education and support organization. We are not a licensed treatment center. All medical treatment comes from third-party licensed facilities. This content is for educational purposes and is not medical advice.

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