About Another Way Recovery Services
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.
Our highly personalized treatment model, whereby the ratio of provider to patient is always 1:1, has proven to be highly effective when compared to group-focused substance use disorder treatment.
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 Continuum of Care 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 Focus on Substance Use Disorder and Co-Occurring Mental Conditions
We treat individuals suffering from Substance Use Disorders (SUD), which refers to alcoholism and/or other chemical dependencies. We also focus on Co-Occurring mental conditions, as many clinicians believe SUD is but a symptom of some other underlying mental condition. If you or a loved one are unsure if you suffer from SUD, one of our clinicians can conduct an assessment either via phone or via video conference to quickly ascertain if you suffer from SUD, and the severity of your case. In most cases, the patient already knows that he/she can not live without a substance(s) for a short period of time without going into physical and/or mental withdrawals.
Experiencing Traditional SUD Treatment Can be Beneficial Before a Patient Finds Another Way
While certainly not a mandatory prerequisite for acceptance into our addiction recovery program, we do find it helpful if a patient has attended at least one traditional treatment facility program(s). We find it is helpful for a patient to experience being institutionalized, whereby he/she is housed with multiple other patients and subjected to what we refer to as the “Treatment Bubble.”
SUD Treatment Facility Bubble
Allowing At-Home addiction treatment can address the “Treatment Bubble” effect of standard addiction treatment facility models. Patients often experience significant stress and anxiety at discharge, believing that they cannot tolerate real life expectations, and stressors, and further believing that they have been safe and protected in the “bubble” of the addiction treatment center. Our approach allows for real time experiences and the opportunity to implement coping skills daily in the patient’s life setting. In doing this daily with support from our licensed addiction recovery team, we believe we can increase the patient’s confidence in their ability to implement addiction recovery skills when confronted with relapse triggers, thus improving outcomes for prolonged recovery.
“I recall having massive panic attacks days before discharge from a residential treatment facility because I knew I was walking back into what appeared to be irreparable damage I had caused before institutionalization. I was not strong enough to effectively confront the anger and pain expressed towards me by my loved ones, friends, and co-workers, so I consistently relapsed just to numb out my strong feelings of regret and remorse.”, says AWRS Founder, Greg T Bolan Jr.