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There are many different types of treatment facilities in Alaska. In fact, there are thousands of different types in the United States alone. One thing that all of these places have in common is that they are all striving to help end drug addiction. In the United States and across the world, a variety of techniques and methods are being used. Some well known types of treatment methods include: the twelve step method, relapse prevention, psychotherapy, individual drug counseling, motivational therapy, family therapy, behavioral therapy, counseling, support groups, inpatient, and outpatient programs. With so many types of treatment centers available, making a decision can be hard. Sadly, many people go from rehab to rehab looking for the one that is right for them. To prevent this from happening, it might be useful to have a basic understanding of the different types of programs out there.

Attending one of the many treatment facilities in Alaska is an important part of recovery from drug addiction. It will help return the individual to their former self before drugs or alcohol took over their life. They will also be provided with important tools to help them solve the problems of everyday life that they may come across. Programs likewise help the individual to change their lifestyle, handle feelings that may arise, develop drug refusal skills, and identify relapse warning signs.

Alaska is home to several residential treatment facilities. These types of programs have existed for over forty years and are also known as therapeutic communities. These communities are often in residential settings where the recovering addict lives in an environment that is drug free while they recover. As time goes on, and they are able to handle more and more responsibility, they are expected to become part of the community they live in and help out others around them. For those who choose one of Alaska's residential treatment facilities, they can expect to have twenty-four hour, seven day a week care. They will also be able to live with others who share the same goal of recovery. All these factors help to benefit the individual and help secure their recovery.

Another option under the umbrella of treatment facilities are long term treatment programs. These types of programs involve spending quite a bit of time in treatment and are usually done in a residential setting. This form of recovery works best for those who understand that they have a serious problem with drugs or alcohol and are dedicated to getting help for themselves. Help is provided twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Individuals typically remain in the program anywhere from three to twelve months. Alaska long term treatment programs work to re-socialize the drug or alcohol addicted individual back into everyday drug-free life. Programs focus on the individual's own personal accountability and responsibility to themselves, their friends, their family, and society.

There are treatment facilities in Alaska which offer drug counseling. This approach to recovery focuses on the symptoms of drug and alcohol addiction. It provides the recovering addict with coping strategies. The individual is provided with the help they need to get off drugs or alcohol and recover from the damage that addiction has caused their life. They begin to take responsibility for the problems they have created and make amends to their friends and family who may have been caught in the crossfire of their addiction.

Outpatient treatment often times costs less than other forms of recovery help such as residential or inpatient treatment. These types of programs are often more suitable for those who are employed or who have extensive social support. Many offer little more than basic drug education and prevention education. Often times, group counseling is emphasized while one on one work is scarce.

Matrix Model drug treatment facilities in Alaska provide a framework for engaging stimulant abusers in treatment and helping them achieve abstinence. Recovering addicts learn about issues critical to drug addiction and relapse, receive direction and support from a trained therapist, become familiar with self-help programs, and are monitored for drug use by urine testing. These programs also include education for family members who have been affected by their family member's drug addiction.

Motivational enhancement therapy is a form of counseling. The individual's drug or alcohol addiction problems are addressed by initiating behavior change. This is done by helping clients to resolve ambivalence about engaging in drug or alcohol addiction treatment and stopping their drug or alcohol abuse. This approach employs strategies to evoke rapid and internally motivated change in the individual, rather than guiding them stepwise through the recovery process. This form of treatment consists of an initial assessment battery session, followed by two to four individual treatment sessions with a therapist. The first treatment session focuses on providing feedback generated from the initial assessment battery to stimulate discussion regarding personal substance use and to elicit self-motivational statements. Motivational interviewing principles are used to strengthen motivation and build a plan for change. Coping strategies for high-risk situations are suggested and discussed with the individual. In subsequent sessions, the therapist monitors change, reviews cessation strategies being used, and continues to encourage commitment to change or sustained abstinence. Recovering addicts are sometimes encouraged to bring a significant other to sessions. This approach has been used successfully with alcoholics and with marijuana-dependent individuals.

Although treatment facilities in Alaska are all very different, they all have one thing in common. This one commonality that they all share is the desire to help individuals recover from drug addiction and return them back to society as productive, functioning individuals. Measures of an effective treatment program typically include decreased levels of criminal behavior, better family functioning, higher employability rates, and improved medical conditions.
According to several studies, drug treatment reduces drug use by 40 to 60 percent and significantly decreases criminal activity during and after treatment. For example, a study of therapeutic community treatment for drug offenders demonstrated that arrests for violent and nonviolent criminal acts were reduced by 40 percent or more. Methadone treatment has been shown to decrease criminal behavior by as much as 50 percent. Research shows that drug addiction treatment reduces the risk of HIV infection and that interventions to prevent HIV are much less costly than treating HIV-related illnesses. Treatment can improve the prospects for employment, with gains of up to 40 percent after treatment.

Although these effectiveness rates hold in general, individual treatment outcomes depend on several issues. They include the extent and nature of the individuals presenting problems, the appropriateness of the treatment components and related services used to address those problems, and the degree of active engagement of the person in the treatment process.

Treatment Centers and Facilities found through-out Alaska:

• Akeela Inc : Akeela House
  2804 Bering Street Anchorage, 99503
  
• Alaska Human Services Inc/Outpatient : Alcohol/Substance Abuse Treatment Prog
  3305 Arctic Boulevard Anchorage, 99503
  
• Alaska Womens Resource Center
  610 C Street Anchorage,
  
• Alaska Womens Resource Center
  611 West 47th Street Anchorage,
  
• Booth Memorial : Youth and Family Services
  3600 East 20th Avenue Anchorage, 99508
  
• Borealis Center LLC
  800 East Dimond Boulevard Anchorage,
  
• Cook Inlet Tribal Council : Ernie Turner Center
  4330 South Bragaw Street Anchorage, 99508
  
• Genesis Recovery Services Inc
  2825 West 42nd Place Anchorage,
  
• Narcotic Drug Treatment Center Inc : Center for Drug Problems
  520 East 4th Avenue Anchorage, 99501
  
• Providence Alaska Medical Center : Providence Breakthrough
  2401 East 42nd Avenue Anchorage, 99508
  
• RITE Inc
  301 East Fireweed Lane Anchorage,
  
• Salvation Army : Clitheroe Center
  1709 South Bragaw Street Anchorage, 99508
  
• Southcentral Foundation : Dena A Coy
  4130 San Ernesto Avenue Anchorage, 99508
  
• Veterans Affairs and ROC : Anchorage Alaska Addictions Trt Prog
  2925 Debarr Road Anchorage, 99508
  
• Volunteers of America Alaska : Assist
  1675 C Street Anchorage, 99501
  
• Kuskokwim Native Association : Community Counseling Program
  Aniak, 99557
  
• North Slope Borough Dept of Hlth Soc : Servs Substance Abuse Treatment Prog
  5200 Karluk Street Barrow, 99723
  
• Bethel Group Home Inc : Recovery Resource Center
  142 Atsaq Street Bethel, 99559
  
• Yukon/Kuskokwim Health Corporation : Phillips Ayagnirvik Treatment Center
  324 Radio Street Bethel, 99559
  
• Copper River Native Association : Behavioral Health Sciences Department
  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Serv Copper Center, 99573
  
• Volunteers of America of Alaska ARCH
  7958 Stewart Mountain Drive Eagle River,
  
• Fairbanks Memorial Hospital : Family Recovery Center
  1650 Cowles Street Fairbanks, 99701
  
• Graf Rheeneenhaanjii : Substance Abuse Services
  2550 Lawlor Road Fairbanks, 99709
  
• Life Givers
  605 Hughes Avenue Fairbanks,
  
• Project Special Delivery
  710 3rd Avenue Fairbanks,
  
• Ralph Perdue Center
  3100 South Cushman Street Fairbanks,
  
• Tanana Chiefs Conference Inc : Old Minto Family Recovery Camp
  122 1st Avenue Fairbanks, 99701
  
• Tanana Chiefs Conference Inc : Yukon Tanana Counseling Services
  1302 21st Avenue Fairbanks, 99701
  
• Womens and Children Center for : Inner Healing
  1027 Evergreen Street Fairbanks, 99709
  
• Fort Wainwright Community Counseling : Center/US Army MEDDAC-AK
  1060 Gaffney Road Suite 6600 Fort Wainwright, 99703
  
• Gastineau Human Services
  5597 Aisek Street Juneau,
  
• Juneau Recovery Hospital : Bartlett Regional Hospital
  3250 Hospital Drive Juneau, 99801
  
• Juneau Youth Services : Chemical Dependency Program
  2075 Jordan Avenue Juneau, 99803
  
• Cook Inlet Council on : Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CICADA)
  10200 Kenai Spur Highway Kenai, 99611
  
• Kenaitze Indian Tribe : Nakenu Family
  110 North Willow Street Kenai, 99611
  
• Gateway Center for Human Services : Substance Abuse Services Division
  3050 5th Avenue Ketchikan, 99901
  
• Ketchikan Indian Corporation
  2960 Tongass Avenue Ketchikan,
  
• Kodiak Council on Alcoholism Inc : DBA Safe Harbor
  115 Mill Bay Road Kodiak, 99615
  
• Maniilaq Recovery Center
  733 2nd Avenue Kotzebue,
  
• Four Rivers Counseling Services Anvik : McGrath Education and MH Assosiation
  229 Joaquin Street Mc Grath, 99627
  
• Annette Island Service Unit : Family Services
  5th Avenue and Duncan Street Metlakatla, 99926
  
• Railbelt Mental Health and Addictions : Treatment Program
  307 East 2nd Street Nenana, 99760
  
• Changing Tides Counseling Services
  201 North Nordic Street Petersburg,
  
• Pribilof Counseling Center
  Saint Paul Island,
  
• Eastern Aleutian Tribes Inc
  Main Street Sand Point,
  
• Seldovia Village Tribe : Prevention Program
  274 Main Street Seldovia, 99663
  
• Seaview Community Services
  302 Railway Avenue Seward,
  
• Southeast AK Regional Hlth Consortium : Ravens Way
  222 Tongass Drive Sitka, 99835
  
• Upper Tanana Alcohol Program
  204 East Chena Way Tok,
  
• Aleutian Counseling Center
  34 Lavelle Court Unalaska,
  
• Valdez Counseling Center
  337 Egan Avenue Valdez,
  
• Alaska Addiction Rehab Services : Nugens Ranch
  3701 Palmer Wasilla Street Wasilla, 99654
  
• MAT/SU Recovery Center Inc
  291 East Swanson Avenue Wasilla,
  
• Starting Point
  1075 Check Street Wasilla,
  
• Avenues
  406 Alaska Avenue Wrangell,
  




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