Faith-based drug rehab treatment near me

Only a few miles north of Fort Lauderdale, the beautiful and vibrant community of Pompano Beach lives with a distressing challenge — drug addiction. The year 2017 in Broward County saw close to 300 deaths to opioid overdoses, alone. The year 2019 saw the county lose 1,367 people to drug poisoning. It’s a rate of loss that surpasses the averages seen for the country or the state.

Roughly one in three people in Broward County identify as religious. Statistically, then, a large number of people who battle substance abuse problems likely struggle with thoughts about how to reconcile their actions with their faith. When you’re religious, it may appear to you that your substance abuse struggles are a betrayal of your faith.

In truth, however, addiction is not a conscious choice. Rather, it is a brain disorder that can occur in anyone, religious or otherwise. Guilt and shame are simply uncalled for. Regardless of whether you’re religious or not, the same rules apply to everyone when it comes to making a clean break with addiction — you need to seek medical and psychological care, and, perhaps psychiatric care, with professionals who are trained to help you. When you choose faith-based rehab, you get to lean on your faith for strength when you need it, in addition. Legacy Healing Center in Pompano Beach offers faith-based care for those who need it.

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How are faith-based rehabs different?

In the simplest terms possible, faith-based rehab isn’t essentially different from secular rehab. Both follow the same set of scientific, evidence-based principles of treatment as they take care of patients — the initial detoxification phase that lasts a week or so comes with medical assistance to help calm the painful withdrawal symptoms that arise, psychiatric treatment is offered where needed, and the rehabilitation phase that follows detoxification includes proven therapeutic treatments such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, family therapy, and group therapy.

Faith-based rehab is different in some ways, however — spiritual faith and a relationship with God are made a part of the healing process. Relevant religious teachings are referred to, and patients are encouraged to pray, to seek forgiveness, to forgive themselves, and to appeal to God for strength. Self-judgment and guilt are destructive forces that often drive substance abuse; when patients are encouraged to seek divine assistance and forgiveness as they attempt to rehabilitate themselves, they tap a powerful source of strength to use against these self-destructive tendencies. Faith can help calm a mind buffeted by negative thoughts.

Research performed at Baylor University has discovered that religious faith is a meaningful way in which to attempt to come off destructive behaviors. The government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration even recognizes hundreds of faith-based community addiction programs around the country and offers them grants to help them continue their work.

If you hold deep faith in God and in spirituality, choosing faith-based rehab can make a great deal of sense. It’s important to understand, however, that such rehab is only likely to be effective when you select a program that closely aligns with your own faith. Attending faith-based rehab that is designed for a different faith, or denomination can result in discomfort, and an inability to make full use of the faith-based activities offered. It’s also important to pay attention to the specific spiritual practices adhered to. If you are a private sort of person and do not feel comfortable with communal prayer sessions, for instance, a faith-based program that relies heavily on group prayers may not work well for you.

While it’s important to find your kind of faith when you look for faith-based rehab, it’s also essential to make sure that the core treatment practices offered are the right ones. Legacy Healing Center offers psychological and psychiatric treatment in line with industry practices.

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What does the Bible say about addiction?

The Bible does not directly refer to addiction, the likely reason being that it wasn’t a term in use millennia ago. Instead, the Bible does frequently speaks of the different ways in which drunkenness or intoxication is harmful to the body and soul. If the Christian faith is close to your heart, there is a great deal of strength that you can draw from passages in the Bible that offer a clear guidance about the feelings of God on the subject of intoxication.

Peter 4:3

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do–living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

Romans 13:13

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

Galatians 5:19-21

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Sober-friendly attractions near Pompano Beach

Pompano Beach offers a wide variety of healthy outlets for recreation. Festival Marketplace is one of the largest malls in the area, offering everything from fashion to produce, and a flea market, all for every budget. You could easily spend hours looking at all the merchandise on offer. The Coastal Community Church is a unique community for people who are passionate about sharing their faith, and about experiencing messages from God. As a follower of the Christian faith, you could find the Church could be a wonderful experience to take in when you’re in Pompano Beach. If you’d like to experience the culture and the arts, the Pompano Beach Cultural Center is a new facility in the area to try out. Plays, concerts, art installations and other wonderful ways to pass the time are all yours when you pay the place a visit.

If you struggle with addiction but have your faith to lean on, Legacy Healing Center in Pompano Beach offers faith-based rehab programs that can effectively help you overcome the challenges that you face. Faith can be a powerful ally in the battle against dependence. Contact us today to learn about the different treatment options that we can provide at (888) 534-2295.

Legacy Healing Center -Alcohol & Drug Rehab Pompano
803 NW 2nd Ave
Pompano Beach, FL 33060

(954) 388-8029

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