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Drug Rehab Utah
is here to help people with drug and/or alcohol abuse problems in Utah. find treatment options. Due to our diverse networking system we can find a treatment option tailored to each individuals specific situation and needs. We are able to provide all phases of recovery included but not limited to, alcohol and/or drug intervention, drug and/or alcohol detox, in-patient treatment, out-patient treatment, short term treatment (30 days or less), long term treatment (90 days or longer).
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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in Utah. At Drug Rehab Utah we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in Utah, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in Utah. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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We realize that each individual in Utah. is in a different financial situation and we will find treatment options for each individual regardless of their financial situation. No matter what your financial situation everyone will receive the treatment help they are looking for.
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Utah: Providing a second chanceHe sits on the sidewalk of a major east-west thoroughfare in Salt Lake City, Utah half propped against a short concrete wall, his legs splayed before him. His head lolls on his chest. He is clearly the worse for drink.
The other occupants of the van I'm riding in have spotted the bedraggled heap from half a block away and, moments later, driver Ed Snoddy pulls alongside.
Lisa Croudy recognizes the man and is out of the van and crouching beside him in seconds, calling him by name, gentling him awake and asking how he came by the cruel scrape down the side of his weathered face.
"He had a gravity attack," Lisa wryly explains moments after the man has been loaded into the front passenger seat, buckled up, and Ed has the van under way.
It is mid-morning on a weekday, and we are headed for the Volunteers of America detoxification center at 255 West Brooklyn to deliver our silent cargo.
There, he will be evaluated, given space to sleep it off and dry out for a few days, offered three squares, a place to shower, clean socks, hygiene products and medical attention if he wants it. And once again, he will, if he chooses, have a chance to take stock of his precarious life, a chance to whip his devils before they lay him entirely to waste.
But the odds of that happening are longer than in any game of chance you care to name. Lisa and Ed will likely transport this man again, if not next week, then next month, or until he is not there to be transported anymore. It is what they do, with great compassion, for these people who barely subsist on our extreme margins.
"Our job is to catch the people falling through the cracks -- to lift them up and help them at whatever level they are," says Kathy Bray, director of program operations for Volunteers of America's two detoxification centers (there is a homeless women's facility in Murray) and its Utah Homeless Outreach Program. The entire operation is funded by a combination of government, the United Way, foundations and private individuals.
Kathy is riding along in the van today after showing me the Brooklyn center, where men can be seen sleeping or engaging in quiet conversation on mattresses or in bunks. Helpers in the kitchen, which serves 60,000 meals a year, live in dormitory rooms at the center and there are beds for 10 women.
Among the more than 300 admissions a month at this detox center, alcohol (including cheap mouthwash) remains the intoxicant of choice for about half of them. They arrive in various states of inebriation at all hours, sometimes ushered in by cops who know they'll be better off there than in jail.
About 20 percent of those admitted are heroin addicts. VOA allows them up to two-week stays for detoxification, sometimes with the aid of methadone. Fifteen percent are chronic meth users.
But just as ravaging, if not more so, are the mental illnesses such as paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder that afflict about 35 percent of these refugees from "normal" society.
Mental problems only lengthen the odds against happy endings, but Lisa, Ed and Kathy maintain their own measures of success.
"We know that if they take a baby step, it's better than they've done before," Kathy says. "The alternatives are incarceration or death, and we can save people from death. You can see enough people get hope. You can see it in their eyes."
About 60 percent of the VOA staff are in recovery themselves and not everyone survives the emotional strain that is placed on these angels of mercy. So, as they take strength from their modest successes, they keep an eye on each other.
Shouldering a burden that is all of ours to bear exacts a toll, and the Volunteers of America pay it, for all of us, every day.
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Vern Anderson is The Tribune's editorial and opinion editor. He can be reached at 801-257-8743 and by e-mail at vanderson@sltrib.com.
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