Intensive Outpatient Program
Ocean Breeze Recovery IOP: Structured Intensive Outpatient Treatment
Intensive Outpatient (IOP)level of addiction treatment introduces personal responsibility and freedom while maintaining needed guidance and support.
At this level, clients continue to live in our safe and structured living environment, while beginning the transition into a more regular daily routine. The opportunity to return to work or school during the day and return for therapy and support in the evening builds that critical connection between recovery and self-sufficiency.
The primary goal of good IOP treatment is to provide the client with a solid bridge between the tools and knowledge they gain in inpatient treatment and life in the outside world. Ocean Breeze Recovery achieves this through goal-oriented therapy and ongoing assessment that empowers the client to begin reclaim their independence --free of drugs and alcohol.
The key components to effective Intensive Outpatient that we employ include:
1. Continuing access to therapists and professional support.
2. Addiction treatment plans that emphasize personal responsibility.
3. Safe, structured living in our residential program.
4. Guidance and sound advice that applies not only to recovery, but to the challenges of everyday life.
In addition to stopping drug or alcohol abuse, the goal of our addiction treatment program is to return our clients to being productive and functioning in their family, workplace, and community. According to research that tracks individuals in addiction treatment over extended periods of time, most people who get into, and remain in treatment, stop using drugs and alcohol, decrease their criminal activity, and improve their occupational, social, and psychological functioning. In order to achieve this, the transition back into their regular lives from alcohol drug rehabilitation must be approached carefully.
Our goal is to do everything we can to help our clients overcome addiction and prevent relapse. This is extremely important because as a person continues to abuse drugs or alcohol, the brain adapts to the overwhelming surges in dopamine by producing less dopamine or by reducing the number of dopamine receptors in the reward circuit. The result is a lessening of dopamine’s impact on the reward circuit, which reduces the abuser’s ability to enjoy the drugs or alcohol, as well as the other events in his or her life that previously brought pleasure or excitement. This decrease compels the addicted person to keep abusing drugs in an attempt to bring the dopamine function back to normal, except now larger amounts of the drug or alcohol are required to achieve the same dopamine high. This is an effect known as tolerance.
Long-term abuse causes changes in other brain chemical systems and circuits as well. Glutamate is a neurotransmitter that influences the reward circuit and the ability to learn. When the optimal concentration of glutamate is altered by drug abuse, the brain attempts to compensate, which can impair cognitive function. Brain imaging studies of drug-addicted individuals show changes in areas of the brain that are critical to judgment, decision making, learning and memory, and behavior control. Together, these changes can drive an abuser to seek out and take drugs or alcohol compulsively despite adverse, even devastating consequences, which is the actual nature of addiction.
With the above in mind we understand what our clients are up against when they leave our controlled environment and enter the real world. To help prevent relapse upon successful completion of the residential addiction treatment program, and before regular outpatient treatment, our clients transition into a more relaxed level of substance abuse treatment with a greater degree of independence and personal responsibility. This begins the transition in the recovery process where clients take on more responsibility for their own recovery and learn the lifelong strategies that will help them remain sober without the need for continually supervision. Our intensive outpatient program is designed to effectively help facilitate this process for all clients.
During this phase of the intensive outpatient program treatment, clients have the ability to work or go to school during the day, while continuing to participate in mandatory addiction treatment at night. This level of intensive outpatient program care allows for gradual re-entry into society and empowers clients to apply and practice their recently acquired recovery and life skills. We believe that this process increases the long-term success of clients by further preparing them for reentry into their regular lives while still receiving the support they need to continue on their path to recovery.
Under the continued guidance of the Ocean Breeze Recovery intensive outpatient program treatment team, clients have the opportunity to address and resolve challenging issues as they arise during their return to daily life activity. This is important because it provides extra support during this time that they would not receive if they were immediately moved to the regular outpatient treatment phase of the program. This transitional phase is geared toward facilitating lasting recovery for the client through focus on education, relapse prevention and life skills.
Each client receives a minimum of 9 hours of addiction treatment per week during the intensive outpatient program. The Ocean Breeze Recovery team will draw from a mix of therapeutic interventions, and an individualized treatment plan will be designed to meet the specific needs and rehabilitation goals of each and every client. Since every client is different every intensive outpatient program will be different as well. In addition ongoing evaluations are provided to assess each client’s treatment progress to ensure the best possible success for each client. During these evaluations if items of concerned are identified they will be addressed and the proper changes implemented to ensure every client receives only the best and most relevant addiction treatment and care.
When considering Ocean Breeze Recovery and our intensive outpatient program please note:
1. Supportive and safe housing is available at all levels of care for every client.
2. Individuals may be admitted directly into this level of care should their clinical evaluation deem it appropriate to meet their rehabilitation needs.
For more information on our intensive outpatient program or all of our addiction treatment programs please contact us at 1-855-OBR-7700.
