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Awakenings is the best rehab I’ve ever been to. It was different for me going there because it’s the only rehab center I’ve been to where I actually liked it there. The whole atmosphere at Awakenings is warm and inviting. When I first got there the staff made me feel safe and comfortable and that meant that I could fully concentrate on my program and my recovery without any distractions.
I was surprised by how easy detox was for me. I’ve never gone through a detox that easily. The staff in detox were really great. They are extremely knowledgeable about drugs and how they affect the body so they knew what would be most helpful in getting me throughout the whole detox process. The other thing is that they seemed to just know when I needed someone to talk to, when I needed a distraction or when I just wanted to be left alone for a bit, and when I wanted to be left alone, they respected that but, didn’t let me stew for too long by myself.
There isn’t a single program that will work for everyone. Each person is different and we all started using drugs and continued to use drugs for different reasons. So, you can’t treat every person’s recovery the same way and that’s why they have different treatments available there. When I finished detox I worked with my counselor who helped me find the program that would be right for me. Just the fact that I could choose the program I was going to do was cathartic. I’ve been to rehabs before where 2 days in I just knew they weren’t going to work. Finding out that it was because it was the wrong program for me and then finding one that would work was a huge relief.
My favorite classes at Awakenings were the art and music therapy. They helped me deal with any negative emotions I was feeling at the time and I learned how to use music and art to deal with those negative emotions in a positive way so that when I got home I could use that to help me stay sober.
One thing about Awakenings is that it’s not just about getting you off drugs. They work hard to make sure that when you leave there you’re healthy in both body and mind. I didn’t realize how much easier it would be to stay clean when I was healthy. One of the reasons I started using drugs in the first place was because they made me feel good. I’ve learned that when I’m exercising and eating right I feel good and so don’t feel the need to use drugs to make me feel better. The food they have at Awakenings is healthy while still tasting good and while I was on my program I learned how to choose the right foods to eat. Awakenings is also the only program I’ve been to where I wasn’t overweight when I graduated. I gained the weight I needed to while going through my program but, not much more than what I needed to gain and the weight I put on was all healthy weight.
The staff working at Awakenings are a major factor in what makes it such a great rehab center. From the moment I got there they made me feel like I finally had people who weren’t just on my side but also understood what I was going through. My family’s always been very supportive but, they never truly understood everything I was dealing with so having both with the staff at Awakenings was a great experience for me.
The staff made sure that when I graduated that I was completely comfortable with myself and that I was confident in my ability to keep myself sober or to ask for help before it became too much for me to handle. Because of that I’ve stayed in touch with my aftercare specialist and that support has done a lot to help me stay sober.
Awakenings is such a great center and I would recommend this ...

Going to Awakenings was different for me from other rehabs I’ve gone to because I actually liked it there. The whole atmosphere at Awakenings was warm and inviting. When I first got there the staff made me feel comfortable and safe which for me meant that I could completely concentrate on my recovery.
I was surprised by how easy and smooth detox was for me there. It’s never easy or fun to detox off something and yet going through the detox at Awakenings was so much smoother than I was used to. The medical personnel and detox staff were awesome. They seemed to know just when I needed someone to talk to, when I needed a distraction and when I just wanted to be left alone for a bit. They are really knowledgeable about drugs and their effect on the body and they knew a bunch of things that helped me get through my detox easier.
There’s not one single recovery program that works for everyone. Every person is different and that means that you can’t treat each person’s addiction the same. Which is why they have different programs that you can do at Awakenings. When I got out of detox I worked with my counselor who helped me figure the program that would work best for me.
There’s also enough groups and classes during the day that you’re kept busy but it’s not too much either. They also have classes like music and art therapy which were my favorite. Both those classes in helping me deal with negative emotions and learning how to use both music and art when I left to deal with those emotions and prevent myself from relapsing that way.
Another thing about Awakenings is that the facility isn’t just about getting you off drugs. They work hard to make sure that you are healthy as well. I didn’t realize how much staying healthy helped with staying sober. One of the reasons I started using in the first place was because drugs made me feel good. Now, I feel good without them and so I don’t feel the need to use them as much. While I was at Awakenings I learned the kinds of foods I should be eating and why certain food made me feel worse than others and the effects those foods had on my body. Awakenings is also the only the rehab I’ve been to where when I graduated I wasn’t overweight. I did gain weight there but it was weight that I needed to gain and with their emphasis on making sure were all healthy I was exercising throughout my program and so when I graduated from Awakenings I was healthy in both body and mind.
The staff at Awakenings are one thing that make this facility so great. From the moment I got there they made me feel like I finally had someone on my side who completely understood what I was going through and just wanted to help me get better. I’ve always had one or the other. The addicts I knew, they understood what I was dealing with and how hard it was to get sober but, they weren’t supportive or anything. My family however is very supportive but, they don’t understood what I’ve been dealing with or how I’ve been trying to get sober. The staff at Awakenings were both, they knew what I was dealing with, they were supportive and they were willing and able to help me. The staff at Awakenings also care, I mean really care about the people that come to Awakenings for help and their dedication to helping us was pretty amazing to experience.
They made sure that when I graduated from my program I felt confident in my own ability to keep myself sober. I’ve also stayed in touch with my aftercare specialist and that’s also helped me a lot. Just having someone to talk to if I’m having trouble has been huge. It’s another one of the reasons I’ve been able to stay sober.
Going through my program at Awakenings was a great experience. I’d recommend this facility to anyone and everyone who needs help with getting sober. I know that as long as I continue applying what I learned there that I’ll be able to stay sober for the rest of my life.

I went to Awakenings 6 months ago and it’s the best rehab I’ve been to. Before going to Awakenings I used pain pills for 7 years. In that 7 years, I went to 5 others rehabs and not one of them much in regards to helping me. After each program I relapsed. All but one of them I relapsed within 2 weeks of getting home. The one time I didn’t relapsed under 2 weeks I still only managed 3 weeks and 3 days before relapsing. Since going to Awakenings I’ve stayed sober. I spent 3 months there and have been home for 3 months as well. These last 3 months at home have been completely drug and alcohol free. The difference in how I felt after finishing my program at Awakenings and how I felt when I finished the other 5 programs is huge. When I completed Awakenings, I felt ready to live my life, without drugs and for the very first time I felt confident that staying sober was something I could really do. When I finished those other programs and got home I was scared. Even just leaving my house to buy cigarettes was a risk for me because I wanted to get high so desperately that I knew any time I left my house the was a pretty high probability of me taking a detour and getting pain pills before going home. Each rehab I went to I did so because I wanted a sober life, the cravings to use are still there though when you get home and if you don’t handle it right those cravings because extremely intense and they don’t seem to end. After finishing my program at Awakenings I started living my life again. I could go out to lunch with my dad and I wasn’t scared or nervous that I’d take a detour home. One of the biggest reasons that Awakenings worked for me is that the don’t approach every person’s recovery the same. There isn’t only one program that everyone does because it’s ridiculous to assume that the same program would work for every drug addict. So, they have different programs there and the counselors helped me find the right fit for me and it’s made a huge difference. Another thing that really helped me was that the staff at Awakenings cultivated an upbeat atmosphere. It really me a lot that in the groups you didn’t have a bunch of people depressed about their situation. The staff worked with each of us so every one of us in the group were all people working hard to makes their lives better. While at Awakenings I learned a lot about myself. Mostly, I figured out what kind of life I wanted to have and how I wanted to live that life. I learned there that I am a better, nicer person to others when I sober and I’m a better, nicer person to myself when I’m sober as well. I learned how to deal with my cravings and how to make sure those cravings didn’t become so intense that using seemed to be the only option. Another thing about Awakenings was that I didn’t only deal with my addiction there. There were so many things in my life that I’d messed up because of my addiction and while I was at Awakenings I dealt with all those things. Either completely or a plan of action was made for things that couldn’t just be handled. Like my relationship with my family. They aren’t going to immediately start trusting me again after my 6th rehab just because I say it’s different this time. I’ve told them that before so, I needed to prove to them that I really am done with that life and that takes time. In the 3 months I’ve been home I have started...

Going to the Awakenings Rehab Center ended up being a great experience for me. It’s a rehab center where you can really work to change your life and you have all the help and support you could ever need to do just that. Going through rehab is hard work. It’s stressful and having a place where you can relax while going through that makes things a whole lot easier. So, they made their building and everything in it to be that comfortable place where you can relax.
What’s nice at Awakenings is that the staff there truly understand just how hard going through rehab is and they work with you to make sure that you have everything you need. They treat all the clients with respect and understand. No one makes you feel like a failure for having to go to rehab. No matter how many rehabs you’ve been to before. Which is great. I’ve been to rehabs where the staff might not say anything but, they still make you feel like being in rehab at all makes you somehow less. It’s not that way at Awakenings at all. They care about their clients and it shows it how they interacted with us.
The most unpleasant part of rehab, for me at least, is going through detox. There is nothing fun or easy about detoxing from opiates. At Awakenings they use Suboxone for the opiate detoxes which they then wean you off of. It’s not completely painless and comfortable but, it’s a whole lot better than dealing with the withdrawal symptoms you have when you quit cold turkey.
When I finished my detox and started working on my program the rest of the clients at Awakenings were nice and very welcoming. The made me feel like part of the group right away which was nice. Whenever I’d gone to rehabs in the past I’d meet the people in detox with me and that’s who I would hang out with when I got out of detox. If you’re the first person from that group getting out of detox, I’d end up just being weird and awkward by myself until the people I went to detox with got out and started their programs. So, having the other clients make me feel welcome was nice. They showed me where everything was, where I needed to be at any given time and everything else I needed help with.
There are different treatment options at Awakenings so when I finished my detox and was ready to start my program the counselor I was working with helped me figure out which program would be right for me. I’m not religious in the slightest but, they have a faith based program for those who are. They also had a 12-step program if you that. I chose to do the SMART program which is cognitive behavior therapy program and I loved it. You work on figuring out your behavior patterns and how to change them. You work to change the way you think and the way you react to whatever circumstance you might find yourself in. For me, the SMART program was the right choice but, I really liked that they had those other programs available for those who wanted them.
The music and art therapy were 2 things that I really enjoyed. They were great way to work through my emotions and I had fun in those classes. One thing I changed while there was that I started exercising regularly. We learned that exercising releases endorphins which makes you happier. I know there’s a lot more to it than that. For me though that worked out to that when I exercised regularly I was happier and had an easier time staying sober. I’ve continued exercising since getting home and I find that I don’t miss the high from using drugs quite so much.
The counselors at Awakenings made sure that when it came time for me to graduate that I was actually ready to leave. If they hadn’t been confident that I could and would keep myself sober they’d have...

My girlfriend needed help when she started using Adderall in order to lose weight. She’s used diet pills in the past but those pills were mostly from vitamin stores so I never got too worried. When her and I first got together she told me that she’s had problems with eating and weight loss in the past and that she’s in therapy because of it. It’s not quite an eating disorder. Most times, she eats like a normal, healthy person. She doesn’t obsessively control how much she eats, doesn’t deny herself something if she wants it and she doesn’t binge eat. What happens is every so often she starts thinking she’s fat. She’ll go on some crazy diet, start exercising like a madwoman and will start taking diet pills. She never abused the diet pills that I know of and these periods of her taking diet pills usually lasted from 6 weeks to 3 months. She works through it with her therapist, she’ll calm down on her thinking she’s fat, she stops taking diet pills and start eating how she normally eats again. The last time she went on her “too fat” diet thing, it was because we decided to get married and had started planning our wedding. We hadn’t even picked a place to get married or a date but, she wanted to look perfect and to her that meant extra skinny. Instead of going to a vitamin store and getting some kind of diet pill from there, she started getting Adderall from someone she worked with. I didn’t know she was taking Adderall. I thought she was taking something from GNC. She always, always worked with her therapist on when she started in with thinking she was fat. Because she always worked with her therapist I didn’t get involved with advice or worry unless she specified that she wanted help and so she stayed on Adderall longer than she would have if I’d been watching her closer. Eventually I did realize that there was more going on than what I’d consider normal for these situations. I didn’t want to get involved over something she was already seeing a professional for but, at a certain point I had to. She finally told me that she wasn’t taking diet pills but, that she was taking Adderall to lose weight. She and I tried to get her off it but, I couldn’t watch her 24/7 and she didn’t have the willpower to stop taking it by herself. She talked to a friend of ours about it because our friend had a brother would was addicted to heroin, looking for advice. That friend’s brother had gone to Awakenings and was still doing well after finishing that program. We didn’t know of any other place so decided that she’d go to Awakenings. That staff at Awakenings helped her so much. They got her off the Adderall and helped her work out why she started using diet pills in the first place. What the underlying reasons behind it were and then help her deal with those reasons so it didn’t happen again. Since finishing her program she’s been good. She still goes to see her therapist every well which has helped her continue to do the work she started at Awakenings. I was really impressed with the way the staff at Awakenings treated her. She’s always been really sensitive and the staff were great about knowing when to push her and when not to push her. I doubt this will be the last time she has issues with her weight. I do think it’s the last time she’ll turn to Adderall for an extra boost with weight loss though. The Awakenings facility was a really good fit for her and I’m glad we had a friend who knew about it and was able to refer us there.

My girlfriend needed help when she started abusing Adderall while trying to lose weight. When her and I first started dating she told me that she had started seeing a therapist when she was younger because she has weight and eating issues. For most of the time she’s very healthy. She eats well and exercises. She’s not and as long as I’ve known her hasn’t ever been overweight. What she deals with isn’t exactly an eating disorder as I would think of them. She’s not bulimic, doesn’t binge eat and isn’t anorexic. What happens with her is that once or twice a year she decides she’s getting fat and goes a little bit crazy with the dieting. She’ll go on some weird diet, start exercising excessively and will start taking diet pills. This happens rarely and when it does she tends to work through it with her therapist and it lasts from 6 weeks to 3 months. This time when it happened, instead of going to the vitamin store and getting some diet pills she started taking Adderall that someone she worked with gave to her and then started selling it to her. This time when it happened we had just started planning our wedding. We hadn’t picked the date or the venue but were talking about it so much that I think she decided that she needed to be skinnier and that she needed to start right then so that by the time we did get married she was “perfect”. Because she sees her therapist weekly and because every time this has happened in the past her therapist and her work through it, I’ve always taken the approach that I let her know I care, that I think she looks great as she is and that I’m there if she wants my help. Only this time because she was taking Adderall, it lasted longer and it wasn’t something that she stopped taking when she started eating normally again. Which is why it took me too long to figure out that there was more going on this time. When I did realize I asked her about it and she told me that she’d been taking Adderall and had tried to stop a few times without help but wasn’t able to. We found out about Awakenings because a friend of ours has a brother with a heroin addiction. He had gotten back from Awakenings recently and was still doing good which is why our friend told us about it. We didn’t know much about rehabs so she went to Awakenings. It’s lucky that we had someone who could recommend it to us. The Awakenings facility was great for her. The staff were amazing. She’s always been really sensitive and it’s hard to know when you can push her and when you need to let her be. The staff were great at knowing which was which and exactly how to help her. She learned a lot about herself while she was at Awakenings. She still sees her therapist every week but, that just helps her even more. She worked on why she has these periods of time where she feels she needs to lose a lot of weight and continues to deal with it in a positive manner. I don’t know that she’ll never experience that again but, I do know that if or when she does, she won’t go back to using Adderall and will just work through it with her therapist. This Awakenings facility was a really good fit for her. It’s a facility I’d recommend to anyone.

My brother started using drugs when he was 15. He wasn’t addicted to anything specifically, he just used whatever drug or drank whatever alcohol he could get his hands on. When he was 2 our grandparents gained custody of us because both of our parents were drug addicts. It’s always been harder for him than it was for me and as he got older he struggled with depression. Though before he went to his first rehab we didn’t realize that’s what it was. Our grandparents worried about us a lot, they didn’t want us falling into the same trap as our parents and so watched us pretty closely as we got older. I never touched a thing while my brother went the opposite route and tried everything. It wasn’t long before our grandparents found out and when they did they sent him to a yearlong inpatient rehab program. Going to that rehab was really good for him. The length of his stay really helped him along with the fact that while he was there his depression was diagnosed. Which was a relief for him. Just having a name for what he was feeling and knowing that he wasn’t the only one, it helped him deal with it a lot better.
When he got back things were pretty okay for a while. He started seeing a therapist which helped him. He still struggled to stay sober sometimes but, he managed. He finished up high school, he started working for our grandpa and he didn’t touch a drop of alcohol or any kind of drug for 2 years.
3 years ago, his girlfriend broke up with him. It devastated him. He had been planning their entire lives together, was planning to propose and it broke something in him when she broke up with him and he realized that she didn’t feel the same way about him. He still tried to stay sober, started seeing his therapist more often and he tried. It was an uphill battle though and eventually he gave in and started using again. It was the same this time. No drug of choice, would use whatever was around.
He went to 3 other programs before we found Awakenings. Each one of them did help him while he was there. When he got home though he’d spiral and start using again. 6 months ago, we found Awakenings and that changed. Going there worked for him. It helped him that Awakenings is a mostly holistic program. They don’t prescribe anything there past what someone needs to detox, they also didn’t try to get him to stop taking his depression meds. He stayed on his meds and they worked with him to get him to the point where he was doing well and feeling normal.
They helped him a lot with dealing with people, his cravings and his problems. Whenever he had a problem, his first instinct was to get high, knowing that it wouldn’t matter to him anymore. So, the staff at Awakenings worked with him on dealing with his problems as they come up, worked on how he talked to and dealt with people. Then they helped him find things that worked as distractions for when he was having cravings. Helped him find something else to do besides get high.
The best thing I can say about Awakenings is that my brother liked it. He liked being there and going through his program which was a new experience for him. He’s never been good with large groups of people but the staff and the other clients helped him fit in and feel comfortable. He was able to concentrate more on his program because of that.
Since my bother got home 2 months ago, he’s been doing great. I’m so proud of him for the work he did while at Awakenings and the work he continues to do at home so he stays sober. I’m so glad our grandparents found this program and sent him here.

Going through the program at Awakenings did so much more for my son than just getting him off heroin. My son has always been extremely shy and introverted and when her started using heroin it got even worse. He’s never been close to anyone besides his sister. That’s includes me. I love my son and would do just about anything for him but he’s always been really self-sufficient and when he was 9 years old he pretty much stopped needing a mother. So, we aren’t as close as I’d like us to be. What’s made that easier is the fact that he talks to sister and if something is ever really wrong she’ll tell me and we can help him. When he started using heroin he stopped talking to his sister as well and her and I both were extremely worried. When we found out why he was avoiding her we immediately started looking for treatment centers. He just refused to go though and kept saying that he didn’t need rehab and that he’d be fine on his own. It took a while but he did finally agree to get help and we sent him to Awakenings. He absolutely hated it when he first got there. Which is what I expected. You can’t take someone as shy as he is and put him in a completely new place with no one he knows and expect they’d like it. So we knew he’d hate it there but we were just hoping that the program itself would help him enough that it would make up for the fact that he didn’t like it there. What happened when he was at Awakenings was nothing like I expected. I know how much he hated it when he first got there but the staff were amazing with him. I don’t what they did exactly but they were really nice to him without being pushy. They were understanding without making him open up and slowly but surely they got him comfortable with them and then helped him with dealing with more new people. As he went through the program he had an easier time dealing with the staff and the other clients there. He called me about a month into his program. He sounded so much better. I expected the call to be short, just him telling me he was alright and everything. So, when he started telling me about his program and about the other clients he’d befriended and everything else he was doing I was amazed. When my son went to Awakenings they helped him get off heroin. Which is wonderful. I appreciate it even more because they helped my son learn how to deal with his life better. He’s the same person, still really shy but it’s easier for him to talk to people he doesn’t know now. So, he had a much easier time getting a job after he got home. He still talks to his counselor from Awakenings which has helped him a lot in staying sober. Just having someone to talk to that he trusts and respects and who also understands him has been such a boon. Finding and sending my son to Awakenings was the best thing we could have done.

My son started using heroin 3 years ago. Just for a bit of background about him, he’s always been crazy shy and introverted. He’s never was one to make friends easier and even the friends he’s had for most of his life weren’t people he was particularly close to. The only person in the entire world who my son has ever been close to has been his sister and I’m including myself in that. I swear, that boy stopped needing a mother when he 9 years old. He’s always been really self-sufficient and there wasn’t anything I could do to get closer to him. His sister was the one person he’d go to, the one person he’d turn to if he needed something. When he stopped even talking openly with his sister and was dodging her calls, that’s when her and I started to worry. We figured out that he was using heroin and have been trying to get him into treatment since then. Finally 9 months ago his sister cornered him and got him to agree to go to rehab. Which is when we sent him to Awakenings. I don’t think he could have hated it more than he did when he first got there. I always knew that one of the reasons he wouldn’t agree to go to treatment was because he didn’t want to be put in a place where he felt uncomfortable. He wouldn’t have felt comfortable anywhere though and I was just hoping that he’d pay attention to the program and not using heroin again would make up for how much he hated rehab. In the end that wasn’t true at all. The staff at Awakenings were amazing with him. I can’t imagine us finding a better place for him to go. They were understanding and gentle with the way they treated him and bit by bit they were able to pull him out of his shell until he was actually comfortable at Awakenings. He called me from there about a month after he got there. That’s normal for him so I wasn’t all that worried. What wasn’t normal for him though was that he wasn’t just checking in to say hi or anything like that. He talked to me, told me about what he was doing on his program, the staff there and how easy it was to work with them and the other clients he’d befriended while there. He was so open and talkative, it was pretty amazing to me. The last time he’d talked so openly with me was when he was 9. Since going to Awakenings my son has stayed sober. Going there did so much for him. I just wanted him off heroin, instead my son has had a much easier time with his life because of how much the staff at Awakenings worked with him to help him deal with people he didn’t know. He’s stayed in touch with his counselor from Awakenings which has helped him a lot as well. Just having someone he can call who understands whatever emotion he’s feeling at a particular time and who he trusts and respects has made it easier for him to stay sober. He also got a job which is a bigger accomplishment than it sounds. Just applying at a place and going through the interview process was something he’d have had a much harder time doing before going to Awakenings. Finding Awakenings and sending my son there was the best thing for him.

I went to Awakenings for an addiction to pain pills and Suboxone. The program I did at Awakenings was exactly what I needed and it worked for me. When I started using I didn’t really have a reason to use. Most people when they start using drugs do so because something is happening or has happened that they can’t or don’t want to face. I didn’t have that. I had a good life, a good childhood, my parents are nice and loving, I did well in school and had good friends. When I started using it was for the simple reason that I wanted to know what it was like. It was stupid and something I’ll always regret. I went to my parents for help as soon as I realized that I’d become dependent. It was only 6 months after I started using and I’d been using regularly for no more than a month. When I went to them for help I didn’t want to go to rehab. I knew I needed some kind of help but, I’d read some stories where someone went into rehab with a small habit and when they left, they relapsed and ended up with a much bigger habit or that someone would go into rehab for weed and left they’d start using crack or meth or something much worse. I was afraid of that happening to me and so my parents and I decided we’d try something else first. They took me to a doctor who prescribed me Suboxone. Which did help me get off the pills. The plan was to use the Suboxone to get off pills, then the Suboxone would be weaned down until I stopped taking it. The problem is that when you stop taking Suboxone you still go through withdrawal. I’d go through this cycle where I’d take the Suboxone, wean down till I was barely taking any at all, then stop taking it, I’d start to feel some withdrawal symptoms and I’d go and find something to take and end up back on the pills, only to be put back on Suboxone. After a year of that my parents decided to send me to rehab. I agreed thinking I just needed to get everything completely out of my system. Thinking that once I was through withdrawal and had it behind me, I could stay off on my own. So, I didn’t do the program as seriously as I should. I still did everything I was supposed to, still went to every group and everything individual meeting with my counselor, I just wanted as sincere with it all as I should’ve been. It’s not much of a surprise that I relapsed when I got home. I did make it for 3 months before I relapsed. After I relapsed my doctor put me back on Suboxone and I did that cycle again for a while. Then, my parents found Awakenings and asked me to go there. There’s a lot that makes Awakenings a great rehab. The main reasons for me were the staff and the program itself. The program isn’t just one program that everyone does. They have multiple programs there and so I was able to find the program that worked for me. The staff are awesome. As soon as I got there they made me feel comfortable. Throughout my detox they made sure that I went through as little discomfort as possible and throughout my entire program were just there, willing to help whenever I needed it. I haven’t touched a thing since I’ve gotten home. There are still some times when I have cravings but because I’ve used what I learned there I’ve been able to handle them and not use. I know I’ll be able to stay clean and sober now.

I went to Awakenings because I was addicted to pain pills and Suboxone and the program I did there worked for me. When I started using I didn’t have reason to use. I had a good life and there was nothing I wanted to escape from, which is why a lot of people start using. Something’s going on in their life that they can’t handle and so use drugs to forget. I didn’t have that. I started using because I just wanted to try it. As soon as I realized that I’d become dependent on the pills I went to my parents for help. Which was 6 months after I had used for the first time and I’d been using regularly for no more than a month. I’ve seen some stories where someone went to rehab for the first with a really small habit and when they got out ended up using much more. Or someone who went into rehab for weed and started using meth when they got out or something. I was scared of that happening to me and so my parents and I decided to try something else first. They took me to a doctor who prescribed Suboxone. The whole plan was to put me on the Suboxone and then wean me off. Which is what we did. My problem was the withdrawals, I couldn’t handle them. So, the Suboxone got weaned down and I was fine until I wasn’t taking anything. Then, the withdrawals would start and I’d end back up using pills. I’d get back on Suboxone and the cycle would start over again. After a year of that my parents decided that I needed rehab. They found one and asked me to go, which I did. I knew I needed more help than what I was getting but I thought once I got everything out of my system I’d be good. I didn’t go there with the desire to do the program. I did do everything I was supposed to do, went to every group and participated but I wasn’t completely sincere about it all. So, it’s not really surprising that I relapsed after I got home. I got back on Suboxone and did that whole thing again. My parents found Awakenings after that and I agreed to go. There’s a lot about Awakenings that make it a great place. The two main things for me are the staff working there and the program itself. They actually have multiple choices for programs so I was able to find and do the one that worked best for me. The other reason is the staff who are awesome. As soon as I got there they made sure I felt comfortable and welcome. They were super nice and helped me a lot, especially during detox which they made as comfortable as possible. I completed my program there and since coming home I haven’t touched anything. There are still times when I crave something but, I know how to handle that now. I know that as long as I keep applying what I’ve learned and as long as I don’t get lazy, I’ll be able to stay clean and sober.

For 8 years I used heroin and in that time I’ve been to a lot of different rehabs. Every one of them was a 12-step program and I just hated them. I know the 12-step program works for a lot of people. I also know that there’s a lot of different programs out there. Only, I didn’t know what those program were or what they were like. Even though I hated doing a 12-step program, it was still less scary than something I had never done and knew nothing about and honestly, it’s not like I spent a lot of time researching rehabs and programs when I was high. My dad found most of the programs I’ve been to and I went because I wanted to get off heroin. I found Awakenings because a friend of mine went there. Her mom had sent her and she called me from the center, telling me about it. It sounded like a great place. So, I called my dad and asked me to send me there. When I was at Awakenings I did the SMART Recovery program and I wish my dad or I had found a place with this program years ago. So, the 12-step programs I did never felt right to me. The whole giving myself up to a higher power wasn’t something I felt comfortable with so whenever I was at these rehabs I felt awkward and weird and just plain uncomfortable all the time. The SMART Recovery program felt right to me. It fit with my way of thinking and it just worked for me. That and the staff at Awakenings are great. It helped that they have people who have also been addicted to drugs. I felt like they could relate to me and to what I was going through. Which made it so much easier to talk and to listen to my counselors. Plus, whether it was real or imagined, at those other rehabs I always felt like I was being judged and I didn’t feel that way at Awakenings. When I went through my program there, I was able to change the way I thought which in turn changed my reactions. Instead of instantly wanting to get high when something didn’t go my way, I changed the way I thought of these things and so my reactions weren’t then to immediately want to get high. There are things I’ve done that I’m not proud of. I’m sure that every person who’s ever used has said something similar. I was a horrible daughter to him though and it was hell on our relationship. During my program I started working through these things with him and our relationship has improved a ton. We’ve been talking again, really talking about real things and I hadn’t been able to do that in 8 years. I know it’s going to take more time and that me just finishing rehab doesn’t immediately mean everything’s okay. It’s a start though and our relationship will continue to improve. One thing I really liked about Awakenings was the art therapy. It made it easier for me to deal with a lot of my issues. Plus, I used to be really creative and that lessened the longer I was using. Whether it was just sketching just because or whether I was working through something in class, just having that outlet again was really nice. Being able to get back to doing something I love was awesome. I finished my program a month ago and things have been good. I’m still sober and I’m working hard. I know I still have a lot of work to do but really, my life is much, much better.

For 8 years I used heroin. I’ve been to a lot of different rehabs in that time. All of them were 12-step program and I hated them. I know that 12-step programs work for a lot of people, just not me. I also know that there’s a lot of different programs out there. I just didn’t know what they were or what they were like. Plus, when I was using it wasn’t like I spent a whole lot of time researching rehabs. All of the places I’ve been to my dad picked out. I found Awakenings because my friend’s mom sent her there. She called me from there and told me what it was like and it sounded like a place I’d actually liked. So, I called my dad and asked him to send me there. It was great there. I did the SMART Recovery program and I wish I’d had found a place like this sooner. Doing the 12-step program never felt right to me. The whole giving myself up to a higher power wasn’t something I could really get behind. So going to a 12-step program always felt just weird and awkward and wrong. The SMART program felt right to me though. It fit in with my way of thinking and just worked. The staff there were really great too. It helped that they have people working there who have been addicted to drugs. I felt like they could relate to me and what I was going through. Which made everything easier. I could talk to my counselors and listen to them. Also, whether it was real or imagined I always felt like I was being judged at those other rehabs. It didn’t feel like that at Awakenings at all. When I went through my program there, I was able to change the way I thought. My reactions changed. Instead of instantly wanting to get high when something happened by changing my thought process, it changed my reactions and I didn’t have that urge to use all the time. I don’t think my dad was all that hopeful when I went to Awakenings. I mean, he was happy I wanted help, happy that I made the decision to get clean by myself without him having to convince me of it. Just not all that hopeful. Our relationship had been really strained since I started using. There are things I’ve done that I’m not proud of. I think everyone who’s used drugs would say the same thing and those things put a strain on our relationship. When I was going through my program we were able to start talking again. We started working through those issues and things have been really good between us. Not perfect but good. It’s going to take more time for us to get back to the kind of relationship we had but, we starting to and it’s only going to improve from here. I also really got into the art therapy there. It made it easier for me to deal with a bunch of my issues. I used to be really creative and that lessened when I started using. So, whether it was just sketching because it’s something I used to love or whether I was working through something at the time, it was really great having that creative outlet again. Things have been really good since I finished my program a month ago. I’m sober and working hard. Things have been really great. I still have a lot of work to do but my life is so much better now.

All of these reviews are fake. They write their own reviews to make themselves look better. The facility is a joke.

Going to Awakenings for addiction treatment really gave me a new focus and a new perspective that I did not think I was going to find anywhere else. This treatment center really helped me to find myself and to find my own peace of mind and my own abstinence from even the most difficult and unpleasant of addiction issues, whatever those happened to be at any given time. This center really put in the effort and they really went the extra mile for me, and for that I am eternally grateful to them. This center was well focused and direct and caring in their approach, and they really showed me how possible it is to get free and clear from addiction if you only put your mind to it. They showed me the kind of effort and intention that goes into kicking an addiction, and they showed me the kind of effectiveness that it takes to address a substance abuse habit and what exactly that entails.

Though it takes work and it takes sincere effort to really do something about an addiction struggle, this is an approach and a method that can be capitalized on, and this is an approach that is very necessary and very needed to say the least. I don’t think that I would have been able to kick my habit on my own without the help of Awakenings, and this program really did show me the exact route and the exact process that I needed to tae to kick addiction once and of all and for good. They gave me the peace of mind and the good thoughts that I needed too beat addiction for life, and they showed me that recovery and sobriety actually is possible and is achievable for people if they only put in the effort and do whatever it is they need to do to get free and clear from addiction for life. I am thrilled that this center offers the kinds of services that they offer, and I am pleased that the programs delivered at this program are as helpful and as engaging as they are.

I also really loved the Awakenings staff a lot. These staff showed me exactly what IU had to do to get clean and sober from addiction, and the staff here really shows me the kind of effort that I had to put in to get off of addiction and to get into a level of recovery that was actually lasting and permanent. Really, getting free and clear from an addiction was the key and was what it tok to get off of a habit and to find peace of mind and abstinence from even the harshest and most difficult of substance abuse issues and problems. Thanks to them, I was able to actually find recovery and find peace of mind and abstinence from addiction in such a way that I could totally free myself from a habit. My hat is off to everyone at Awakenings.

I really enjoyed going to Awakenings and getting help for my addiction there. This treatment center really showed me the correct and the right route and approach for getting people free and clear from addiction. Truly this center ha a great focus and a great technique I felt, and they showed just how powerful a good recovery program can be when you put your mind to getting off of addiction once and for all and for good. While I was at Awakenings I felt like I was really learning about myself and what I had gotten myself into with addiction and what it would take to get free from my addiction habit. Getting off of drugs and alcohol was a huge challenge yes, but I was able to do it with the help of Awakenings and I am thrilled that I went there.

Awakenings taught me a few things, like:

How to love and respect myself. How to understand exactly what recovery was all about and what it took to get free and clear from addiction nightmares and problems. It taught me to have some self respect and some peace of mind and some abstinence from even the most difficult and harsh of addiction nightmares.

How to live life out in the real world without having to turn to substance constantly. I really have them to thank for this. I had been to rehab before and had tried to get free and sober from addiction before, but they never really taught me how to STAY off of drugs and alcohol like Awakenings did. I was thrilled by that, because graduating from Awakenings took a lot of work but after I got free and clear from the habit and I graduated Awakenings and I was back in the real world totally comfortable and stable in my sobriety.

How to be successful in life after rehab. The reason why I kept relapsing after rehab was because I wasn’t really learning exactly what I needed to learn in rehab to be able to achieve any level of success outside of rehab. Awakenings taught me how to live for myself and they have be the life skills that I needed to really jump out into the real world and find success and sobriety for myself and to make it lasting and permanent.

At the end of the day I would say that this is an absolutely excellent recovery program. They really put in the effort to make sure that their clients go free and clear from addiction for life. They have a strong commitment to their clients and to ensuring that their clients have good experiences within the recovery program. They also do a lot of good for people in helping people to find peace of mind and abstinence from even the harshest and most brutal of addiction struggles.

When I was going through rehab at Awakenings, there were certainly some tough times, I will admit that. But no rehab program worth its salt is going to be an easy program or a walk in the park by any means at all. As I pushed my way through recovery at Awakenings, I learned that this center and program truly knew what was best for me, and they truly knew exactly how to help people to get free and clear from addiction struggles once and for all and for good. I am thrilled that I went to this rehab, and that I was able to get the kind of help that I got here. This rehab center taught me who I am and who I need to be as an individual, and they gave me peace of mind and a clear conscious for getting off of drugs and alcohol once and for all and for good.

Going to Awakenings Rehab was a real game changer for me. In all brutal honesty, I have been to lots of rehabs before, and I always felt like those rehabs were pretty good. In fact, I have been to a few rehabs in Michigan alone, and a lot of them pretty recently too. Awakenings Rehabilitation was the most recent rehab I went to, and this one I feel like was truly effective and truly exceptional in the care options and treatment solutions that it offered to people. The Awakenings Rehabilitation program was very excellent in the tools and the recovery services that it provided to people, myself included. I really liked how the whole program was focused on creating clarity and peace of mind in the body, mind, psyche, and spirit. They really are dedicated to covering all of the bases and to really showing people just how much work needs to be done to actually create and maintain a lasting level of sobriety and abstinence from addiction. Awakenings Rehabilitation shows you how to create happiness and peace of mind for yourself in your recovery, and that is truly valuable to say the least. Awakenings Rehabilitation helps you to find your abstinence from addiction in such a way that you can get peace of mind and abstinence from addiction once and for all and for good. Awakenings Rehabilitation shows people their peace of mind and their abstinence from addiction once and for all and for good.

When I went to Awakenings Rehabilitation, it was on the coattails of having gone to several other rehab centers, keep that in mind. So, as you can imagine my hopes were not that high for actually being able to get free and clear from addiction once and for all and for good. I did not think that I was going to be able to get the peace of mind that I really wanted, which was truly unfortunate to say the least. However, Awakenings Rehabilitation was able to make a believer of me that rehab does work if you go to the right program and really apply it to yourself. They showed me that getting free and clear from addiction actually is possible and attainable

I really liked the holistic approach and the sensible, spiritual approach that was the core methodology of Awakenings Rehabilitation. I was able to see from going to Awakenings Rehabilitation that getting off of drugs and alcohol is a very real and a very possible thing to do, and I was able ti really get a firm understanding for just how capable and just how excellent going to the right rehab can really be for a person.

When I was at Awakenings Rehabilitation, I actually did get a lot of personal, one on one help in getting clean from addiction, which was very helpful. They took good care of me, and they really showed m that they cared about my recovery and my ability to get clean from addiction once and for all and for good. I would strongly recommend Awakenings Rehabilitation. This is a good treatment center that shows people just how important it is to kick addiction once and for all and for good. While getting free and clear from an addiction might be a huge struggle and a huge effort for people, Awakenings Rehabilitation shows you how to do it and they are very good at this too. My hat is off to Awakenings Rehabilitation. and I would strongly recommend this program to anyone who is trying to beat addiction for life.