What is Concierge Addiction Treatment?
In days gone by (generations, actually) medical professionals performed ‘house calls’. It may sound like a misty old Irish folk tale to many now, but family doctors actually visited your home or place of employment upon request, and treated their patients with a degree of unhurried professional and personal care. You were actually treated like a family member. Due to an overburdened health care system, as well as other factors, this kind of personal health care has made a remarkable comeback, especially in the realm of addiction services.
Concierge medicine refers to health care practice that provides patients with an elevated degree of personal consideration and service. Currently, many physicians have made the decision to limit their patient load to amplify the time and attention that they can spend with each patient.
As for addiction treatment, it has become apparent that many people in need of treatment have exclusive challenges, which can be a variety of issues, ranging from (but not limited to) a general resistance to traditional recovery facilities specific privacy issues or medical and/or emotional concerns that do not always relate to standardized addiction therapy. For these reasons, concierge addiction treatment has become a viable alternative for thousands of patients.
Initial Phase: Detox
In home or remote detox via a concierge addiction treatment program is always overseen and scheduled by a physician who specializes on toxicology and detox. Initially, this physician provides an assessment of the patient and determines if hospitalization is called for in order to stabilize the patient in the opening stages of detox. Often times, for instance, a patient suffering from severe alcoholism will be required to spend a brief period in a hospital setting in order to reduce or eliminate the possibility of seizure. In the end, constant medical supervision is maintained in order to provide specific care and changes needed in a flexible program that is based on the current gravity of the medical situation. Aside from this, the detox is conducted in a home, condominium or temporary hotel setting. Detox technicians are on hand 24 hours a day, providing detox medication and all other support, based on the individual client’s needs and requirements.
That said, it’s important to see the bigger picture of concierge addiction treatment, which is far more than mere ‘detox-at-home’. The goal is to provide continuing, open-ended care for the body, mind and spirit .
Who Offers Concierge Addiction Treatment?
An exclusive number of medical professionals offer concierge addiction treatment, including Dr. Bacher. The motivation of these uncompromising, trail-blazing medical professionals is to help revolutionize the medical profession with an eye towards the fact that the art of medicine has not been lost…although it remains threatened by current challenges in the healthcare system. By returning to an approach of personal care in treatment, these physicians and psychologists are able to take advantage of the most up-to-date advances in technology and deliver state-of-the-art care with a strong measure of personal attention that is often urgently needed for successful recovery from all manner of addiction.
Concierge Treatment VS Traditional Treatment
Concierge addiction medicine provides physicians and psychologists with the time and opportunity to truly know their patients and treat each one individually with a degree of attention to detail that is unrivaled. True, one wants to emphasize the cure and ultimate recovery, but the medical professional needs to be there when he is needed most, especially in the critical early months of recovery. The reality is that most addiction issues (medical and psychological) cannot be addressed and resolved in a brief office visit, which often average under 12 minutes. Addiction is a life-threatening disease… and when your life and health is on the line, the doctor sitting at your bedside without a waiting room full of other patients makes all the difference.
Benefits of Concierge Treatment
As mentioned before, many patients seeking relief from addiction have specific challenges. Privacy issues are certainly at the forefront for many, and concierge addiction treatment provides a degree of security and decorum that cannot be matched in standardized treatment. Becoming an impatient and leaving home for months at a time or radically changing your schedule creates questions for family, neighbors, client and colleagues. High-profile individuals, as well as others who cannot afford to take time off have found concierge addiction services the ultimate answer to difficult and highly-personalized circumstances.
Concierge patients receive treatment when their schedule permits, and in these cases, medical professionals are available after hours, weekends, and other times that fit the individuals schedule and lifestyle. As well, other individuals with families need to schedule treatment when other family members are at work or school. This is to illustrate that concierge addiction services are not solely limited to high-profile or ‘celebrity’ clients.
In addiction to this, concierge addiction patients have access to other cutting-edge and alternative therapies such as neuro-theraputics (neurofeedback) and other methods for treating addiction and trauma.
Sober monitoring is also an important component, along with regular drug testing and all other ancillary services, including mobile therapy.
Cons of Concierge Addiction Treatment
Concierge medicine has been accused of endorsing a health care system that shows favoritism the wealthy and confines the number of doctors and psychologists to care for those who cannot afford it, and encumbers the lower and middle class with a higher cost of insurance. Some contend that while this method is more profitable for some medical practitioners and makes it more convenient for their clients; it formulates care less accessible for other patients who cannot afford the requisite expenditure.
Concierge Treatment and Mental Health
The cornerstone of every addiction treatment is mental health counseling. Behaviors such as drug, alcohol, food, sex/love and gambling abuse are the result of underlying issues which must be addressed to achieve well-rounded and permanent relief and recovery from substance and behavioral issues. When a patient takes part in drug addiction counseling, they are tackling and confronting the psychological element of their reliance to substances and/or behavior. It is precisely this work and course of action that prevents those from relapsing in periods (days, months and years) subsequent to the original addiction treatment program. Counseling provides direction, support and education in greater decision-making, coping skills and by and large enhances the life of the individual in mind and spirit. While medical detox attends to an individual’s physical addiction, there is still the substantial psychological addiction that must be examined and investigated, and this is addressed through counseling. Addiction counseling is a propos of achieving an understanding of why those establish these behaviors and eventually become addicted in the first place. Counseling addresses the triggers for an individual -and aids in discovering more positive and dynamic ways to respond to these life circumstances.
Individual, one-on-one counseling is your core program for recovery following detox. These sessions are an opportunity for the therapist and patient to discover the root sources of the individual’s addiction and uncover solutions to help keep them substance-free or to arrest other behavior. The relationship between patient and therapist is crucial to the recovery process and can last far beyond the initial recovery.
Aside from individual therapy, family counseling is an opportunity to re-build trust and re-establish healthy bonds (and boundaries) between family members. Family counseling can take place during or following the initial recovery process, and create a chance for parents, children, siblings and loved ones to speak their minds. Often times, it is the first time these family members have addressed the individual directly about their addiction and it’s end results, and truly opens the lines of communication. Counselors such as Dr. Bacher have been in practice for many years and are vastly experienced in all phases of individual and family dynamics and healing.
How Much Does Private Addiction Treatment Cost?
Concierge addiction treatment programs may more affordable than you expect. Unlike inpatient recovery, there is no real estate cost involved, and this factor is weighed into the cost of all programs. Some of the concierge treatment providers are accepting insurance and financing as a full or partial payment of services. Aside from these options, credit card acceptance is also a viable method of financing.
It’s important when factoring the cost of concierge addiction treatment to weigh whether your business can withstand your absence for any length of time. Concierge treatment affords you the opportunity to continue to attend to your business and/or family issues with a minimum of interval.
Addiction treatment should not be a chastisement or a cycle of restrictions, margins and rules. It should be an affirmative event delivering nourishing alternatives for your mind, body and spirit. Concierge addiction patients receive exclusive, private care given in the comfort of your home or business. You do not need to modify your life to a new location and new schedule. Your treatment providers are qualified, empathetic specialists that trust in the intensity of one on one. Each person travels through recovery differently. There is no supernatural number of days or precise quantity of where you are in the healing process. Your treatment team will be with you for as long as you need them.