FIRTS STAGE – RESIDENTIAL
This treatment option is available to everyone but is especially suitable for people who currently lack a safe, stable living environment. It offers:
Offers:
- Relief from the immediate environment of active addiction and its associated cues, unhealthy networks and sources of supply.
- Safety – there is a reduced risk to self and others and a time to experiment in making changes with support always close at hand.
- An anti-dote to characteristically chaotic lifestyle through a rational, structured, well managed programme.
- Concentrated intensity – with no distraction from the purpose of recovery. .
- Participation in a recovery community thereby preparing the person for engagement with the principal post-treatment resource of the mutual-aid fellowships.

WHAT TREATMENT INVOLVES
The decision to admit will follow the receipt and assessment of essential information. We understand that however motivated they are, in deciding to enter treatment the patient is taking a big step that may give rise to anxiety. We take a great deal of care in welcoming and integrating our patients into the treatment community.
Our first concern is to ensure the patient’s safety and to stabilise their health. Our expert medical and nursing staff are on hand for this purpose.
If the patient requires detoxification but does not need to be admitted to hospital to undergo this process, the team at Recal will medically manage the withdrawal from substances as safely, as comfortably and as quickly as possible.
While taking the advice of the medical staff, we do not wait for the completion of detoxification before inviting the patient to participate fully in the programme.
The patient will be assigned a focal counsellor, who will support the patient throughout their stay. However, Recal adopts an approach that ensures the collective responsibility of the team for the care of all patients.
Based on what we learn about the patient we collaborate with them on developing a treatment plan. We will already be thinking about the best post-treatment options. The plan is continuously under review and develops during the course of the patient’s stay. The plan will identify the patient’s strengths and resources for recovery while helping them to recognise understand and find ways of removing obstacles to their goal.

Within the weekly schedule and in support of the aims and objective of the treatment plan the patient will have the opportunity to benefit from a variety of therapies including:
- Group Therapy: An interpersonal model is applied to enable patients to understand the issues they bring to relationships which could play a part in relapse and to try new ways of relating to others.
- One-to-one sessions: Building a therapeutic relationship through which to monitor and understand any issues arising with the progress of the treatment plan.
- Assignments to faciliatet engagement with 12-Step fellowships: Insight into and practice of the 12-Step programme while actively working on the first 5 steps. Patients have the opportunity to attend fellowship meetings.
- Health education on addiction, recovery and related subjects: Improving understanding of personal, social and environmental issues affecting the progress of recovery.
- Community health review: Sharing responsibility to look after the recovery culture
- Family conferences: Thinking beyond the individual to support recovery for all
- Complementary therapies: Art Therapy, EMDR, Mindfulness, Acupuncture, Yoga, Physical exercise including personal trainer.