Opioid Use Disorder Treatment At Bedrock Recovery Center

If you are unable to stop taking prescription opioid drugs due to difficult withdrawal symptoms and strong drug cravings, the compassionate treatment specialists at BRC can help you detox and achieve lasting recovery.

We provide a client-centered approach, meaning that your individual needs and recovery goals are considered every step of the way. Our short-term residential program also provides 24/7 access to medical care and support, including during and following acute withdrawal. Continued monitoring for post-acute withdrawal symptoms (PAWS) at BRC in the weeks following detox helps build a strong foundation for lasting recovery.

The multidisciplinary approach at Bedrock ensures that you have access to other proven treatment options as well, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT), evidence-based therapies, peer support groups, aftercare planning, and more, along with case management services for assistance with personal needs related to your recovery, such as help keeping your job while you receive care.

BRC’s Opioid Addiction Treatment Program

Shortly after your arrival at BRC, you will receive an assessment to help determine all of your treatment needs. Your care team will collaborate with you to develop a personalized treatment plan for your long-term success in recovery.

Our onsite psychiatrist, registered nurses and other nurses, and master’s-level counselors and therapists specialize in addiction recovery, trauma-informed care, and dual diagnosis treatment to meet a wide variety of care needs.

While at Bedrock, you will stay in one of our recently renovated semi-private guest suites, with attached shared bathrooms. Nutritious meals are provided to support your recovery, and you will have daily opportunities to participate in wellness and recreation activities such as group fitness classes, yoga, meditation, movie nights, game nights, and more.

Key Aspects Of The Program

We pair proven-effective treatment options for opioid addiction recovery with holistic options, which offers the best results.

Medical Detox

Opioid dependence means that your body has become accustomed to the presence of opioids in your system and now relies on them to function normally. This means that you will experience withdrawal symptoms if you aren’t regularly taking opioids. Our withdrawal management program can help prevent many of these symptoms and any health complications they may cause so that you can safely and successfully detox.

Inpatient Treatment

Your care team will continue monitoring you for PAWS symptoms and provide treatment as needed once you complete detox, the first step in opioid addiction treatment.

Your treatment plan may also include medication-assisted treatment (MAT), considered the gold standard of OUD treatment. MAT uses FDA-approved medications to reduce drug cravings, combined with supportive treatment that gets at the roots of the addiction. Supportive treatment at Bedrock includes evidence-based therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, group therapy, family psychoeducation therapy, and more.

Our peer support groups can connect you with people who share similar life experiences, which can help you feel less alone. Peer support also provides a broader perspective of OUD recovery, plus the opportunity to develop healthier relationships.

Aftercare Planning

As you near completion of your treatment plan, our aftercare coordinator will meet with you and your care team to make sure that the right support is in place for you once you leave us. This might include assistance finding an outpatient program, scheduling ongoing therapy sessions, or locating a peer recovery group that meets near you.

Learn More About OUD

Opioids are a class of both synthetic and natural drugs chemically related to natural pain relievers (opiates) that have been extracted from the sap of the opium poppy for many centuries.

From prescription pain medications like morphine and oxycodone, to illicit substances like heroin, all opioid-class drugs have the potential to be habit-forming and addictive, especially for people with known risk factors.

How Opioids Work

These drugs act by binding to opioid receptors in the central nervous system, providing pain relief at low doses but triggering profound euphoria, central nervous system depression, and other severe effects at higher doses.

Controlled Substance Status

Opioids are generally categorized as either Schedule I or Schedule II controlled substances with the highest potential risk for diversion, abuse, physical dependence, and addiction.

Opioid Drugs

Some of the most well known opioid drugs include:

• heroin (an illicit drug)
• fentanyl (used in prescription opioid medications and imported as a lethal illicit drug)
• oxycodone (OxyContin)
• hydrocodone (Vicodin, Norco, etc.)
• hydromorphone (Dilaudid)
• meperidine (Demerol)
• codeine
• methadone (Methadose and Dolophine)
• tramadol (Ultram)

Opioid Addiction

Opioid addiction, or opioid use disorder (OUD), is defined as a chronic, relapsing mental and behavioral health disorder in which someone compulsively seeks out opioid drugs and continues to misuse them despite negative effects.

For many people, opioid addiction begins after they receive prescription drugs like oxycodone or oxymorphone from a healthcare provider to treat severe pain, pain following surgery, or chronic pain.

Risk Of Opioid Overdose

Opioid use disorder is strongly linked to preventable opioid overdoses, which have claimed the lives of over 1.2 million Americans since the opioid epidemic began, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The ongoing opioid crisis causes a wide variety of other long-term physical, mental, financial, and social harms in those impacted.

Is Opioid Addiction Treatable?

While opioid use disorder is serious, it is also a treatable condition, and a wide variety of evidence-based interventions have been developed to help people achieve recovery, including MAT options. Detox is often a critical first step for people with OUD, helping them overcome difficult withdrawal symptoms.

Risk Factors For Opioid Addiction

There are a variety of risk factors and protective factors that can increase or decrease the likelihood that a person will experience some form of substance use disorder in their life.

Addiction risk factors include:

• genetic makeup
• a family history of substance abuse or drug addiction
• normalization of substance use in one’s family or community
• high availability of opioid drugs in one’s environment
• low perception of risk among peers
• low parental involvement during childhood
• growing up with financial insecurity
• poor performance in school
• family conflict, abuse, or neglect
• early use of substances including alcohol, especially in one’s childhood or adolescent years
• smoking, injecting, or taking illicit or prescribed opioids in other unusual ways

Signs Of Opioid Addiction

Every individual is different, and the experience of opioid addiction will be different from person to person. However, there are some common signs that a person is experiencing OUD.

Signs of opioid addiction include:

• lapses in hygiene and self-care
• unusual weight loss
• slurred speech
• drowsiness
• changing sleep habits
• frequent flu-like symptoms
• decreased interest in sex
• secretive behavior and isolation from family members and friends
• sudden financial problems
• drug-seeking behavior including stealing, doctor shopping, faking injuries, or trying to buy drugs online or on the street
• the emergence of opioid withdrawal symptoms (drug cravings, mental health changes, disturbed sleep, sweating, tremors, etc.) if the person goes without opioids for a period of time

Start Your Recovery Today

If you are interested in learning more about OUD treatment at Bedrock Recovery Center, including if your insurance will cover your treatment, please contact us today.