Rising Heroin Addiction in New York
Today, heroin has become a rising problem across many states, including New York, as more people are given prescription pills for things like chronic pain or injury. When those prescriptions run out, people turn to illicit alternatives, including heroin.
In 2022, heroin represented nearly 24 percent of all substance abuse reported across New York, making it the second most common addiction behind alcoholism.
Between 2017 and 2022, admissions for heroin use decreased by almost the same figure, 24.4 percent, indicating that despite the high levels of heroin addiction, many people struggling with addiction are not getting the help they need.
This presents an array of potential challenges, not least of which include the high risk of opioid overdoses, fentanyl-laced heroin, and ongoing damage to personal and professional lives.
In New York, there are options for teens and adults struggling with addiction. At our heroin treatment center, New York residents can find trauma-informed care with a reputable curriculum to encourage long-term recovery.
How Heroin Works
Heroin has a significant impact on the brain by binding itself to a receptor called MOR. This receptor is designed to connect with neurotransmitters that your body naturally produces. These neurotransmitters regulate things like feelings of pain, feelings of happiness, and hormones. These same receptors also stimulate the release of dopamine, giving your brain a reward.
With heroin, those rewards are increased to a level that is unsustainable, one that reinforces negative behaviors like heroin use.
Heroin also impacts your central nervous system, reducing your body temperature, leaving you feeling cold, causing issues with breathing, making it difficult to breathe, and changing your blood pressure and heart rate.
For these reasons, symptoms of heroin withdrawal can be serious and life-threatening. Symptoms are best managed through professional detox services, providing the support and the medication you need to overcome any potential complications and keep you as comfortable as possible.
What to Expect from Rehab
Rehab provides an opportunity to treat addiction to drugs, which may include a combination of medication and therapy. There were over 48 million people in 2023 who needed treatment for addiction, and yet an average of only 23 percent of those who need it actually get it.
When you participate in the right rehab program, you set yourself up for successful recovery, with over 75 percent of people, according to the CDC, successfully recovering when they complete their rehab program.
At Elevate Point, our heroin treatment center, New York-based, offers a range of individual, family, group, and couples therapy.
Each of these serves different purposes: fostering shared understanding, strengthening family relationships through improved communication skills, and working with a licensed therapist one-on-one to support your unique needs.
Our neurofeedback is an evidence-based practice that can help with things like:
- Emotional balance
- Improved focus
- Self-regulation
- Resiliency
Building your resiliency and your focus makes it easier to not only pay attention but also comprehend the important lessons that you might learn in family therapy, group therapy, or other holistic programs. Moreover, the more you learn to manage stress and emotions, the easier your time will be in recovery when things get stressful or when dealing with difficult emotions.
A big part of that recovery and emotional regulation can be gained in our holistic programs like yoga and mindfulness meditation.
At our heroin treatment center, New York clients can learn that pain and discomfort are temporary, like the emotional discomfort of deep diving in an individual therapy session, the physical discomfort of heroin withdrawal, or the mental discomfort of learning lots of new coping skills at a time when it can be challenging to stay focused.
Yoga and mindfulness meditation help teach you the importance of bringing your attention back to the present moment, focusing on your breathing, and basic stretching to empower your mind and strengthen your body.
We also provide nutritional education. There are many documented ties between food and your energy and mood. That’s why part of our heroin treatment program helps you maintain overall well-being by restoring essential nutrients and vitamins that your body may not have received because of addiction and helping to rebuild your cells and your brain function at the same time.
Much the same as our yoga therapy, art therapy provides a place for you to focus on self-expression, releasing difficult emotions, and expressing yourself through a means that might be more comfortable. Not everyone at first is comfortable with the idea of sitting in a group and sharing intimate details about their recovery process or what may have led them to addiction, but for those people, art therapy can provide a creative outlet to explore how you might feel, especially if you can’t put words to it.
After your time at our heroin treatment center in New York, we want to ensure you are continually supported. To help achieve this, our alumni program is designed to give you access to continual support, connecting you to ongoing care, a supportive community, and programs that reinforce your personal growth and resilience.
Learn More about Our Heroin Treatment Center in New York
If you need help with heroin addiction, Elevate Point provides flexible PHP and IOP options. We work hard to improve the whole person, not just your physical health but your mental and emotional well-being. With each of our programs, you’ll have the opportunity to work one-on-one with a licensed therapist in your individual therapy sessions, navigate more complex issues with group therapy, connect with others in our alumni program, and find overall medical wellness and mental health support with things like our nutrition, TMS, and yoga opportunities.
Start your recovery today. Call 212.285.2022 to contact our heroin treatment center in New York.
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