There is Another Way. You can Recover from Addiction
Our Mission
Our mission at Another Way Recovery Services (AWRS) is both simple and highly complex: to help those suffering from substance use disorders (SUD), and other Co-occurring mental health conditions to enter a life of meaningful recovery. Assisting and guiding our patients in returning to relationships with families, professions, and a life of purpose and meaning. AWRS takes the initial treatment encounter out of the standard treatment center setting and offers a concierge approach in the patient’s own home.
We believe this allows for greater insight into the holistic approach of addiction treatment, as well as allowing our patients to maintain a connection to work and family commitments. Although our full addiction treatment program involves 3 Phases that last 52 weeks, depending on where you are in your addiction recovery, we can offer our services in an a la carte fashion. We can offer Phase I Detox services on its own, but we caution that such services are short-term in nature and the probability of relapse is high if only Detox services are offered. We offer Phase II Intensive tele counseling-medicine services which offer a continuum of care, immediately following Phase I Detox services. Lastly, our Phase III Electronic Monitoring Phase allows the patient to remain in constant touch with our clinicians and medical personnel to give the patient the highest probability for long term sobriety.
Who is AWRS?
We are a multi-disciplinary team of individuals and licensed addiction recovery professional people who believe that recovery from substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health issues is possible. We are passionate about what we do and are excited to offer this option of in-home addiction treatment. Many of us have walked the road of recovery and felt compelled to enter the field of counseling and therapy to confront a disease that continues to devastate families and communities in every part of the United States.
While the traditional inpatient addiction treatment model will almost certainly get a patient sober due to being in a self-contained bubble, we have found that this is simply a short-term solution for a disease that is often described as progressive, incurable, and fatal.
AWRS was founded by a Recovering Alcoholic and Veteran.
We are a data-driven, outcomes-focused organization. We believe in long term monitoring and counseling, as evidenced by our methods and the fact that we offer a 52 week program. Do not fret, we are not going to physically be in your home or conducting telehealth calls every day for 52 weeks.
We offer our services in 3 Phases.
Detox Phase
Phase I:
The Detox Phase allows our medical personnel to come to your residence to evaluate and administer the appropriate medications to safely withdraw you off of your drug(s) of choice. This Phase lasts 5 to 7 days.
Telehealth Medicine
Phase II:
The Intensive Counseling Phase lasts 3 months, where you will receive 48 tele-health sessions with a licensed counselor to teach you the necessary tools to work through normal and abnormal stressors of reality that may prove to be relapse triggers.
Electronic Monitoring
Phase III:
The Electronic Monitoring Phase lasts 9 months, where you will utilize our proprietary APP to stay in touch with our clinicians on a daily basis so that we can monitor your mental state, any issues you may be facing, and continue on with tele-health counseling sessions as well as tele-medicine sessions to assist you in remaining sober long term.
Substance Use Disorder Treated Differently
At Another Way Recovery Services, all employees have worked in different capacities within the traditional addiction treatment model. We are highly familiar with the business and clinical sides of the traditional addiction treatment model and over the years we have become disheartened by the rate of relapse that often occurs after a patient enters the inpatient phase of addiction treatment and exits the outpatient phase of addiction treatment. Due to multiple constraints, be it financial or just the ability to manage your everyday life (i.e., job, family, etc.), most patients are treated and then discharged in a relatively short period of time.
Challenges Exiting the "Treatment Bubble"
We have also found that during the inpatient phase whereby a patient can be institutionalized for about 1 month, a patient lives in what we refer to as a “bubble.” This bubble refers to a patient being self-contained within the confines of an institution without any exposure to the realities he/she will face once discharged into the normal and abnormal stresses present in the “real world.” Exiting the bubble and returning to the outside world can be extremely stressful on its own and many potential relapse triggers will present themselves.
A Long-Term Solution
Unfortunately, many patients return to addiction treatment sometimes repeatedly over a number of years because they believe the only way to stop the disease of chemical dependency is to be institutionalized.
While the traditional inpatient addiction treatment model will almost certainly get a patient sober due to being in a self-contained “bubble,” we have found that this is simply a short-term solution for a disease that is often described as progressive, chronic, and fatal.