GENERAL INFORMATION

 Alpha Recovery is a supportive, structured living environment for addicts who are new in their recovery. Clients are subject to nightly curfews, random urine screens, and are required to attend Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous meetings on a regular basis, in addition to weekly groups at Alpha Recovery. Clients are required to work, unless there is a physical or mental disability, which prevents them from doing so.

The minimum length of stay at Alpha Recovery is 12 months followed by a three to six month aftercare program. The length of time for completion of the program is determined by the clients’ participation and progress in the program.

  We strongly believe that the Criminal Justice System is overrun with cases that are directly related to an individual’s addiction problem. We have found that the treatment provided in the prison system isn’t enough. While providing education to the addict, they do not afford the person the opportunity to practice the necessary life skills they have learned. At Alpha Recovery, the client is allowed to implement the skills in which the recovery lifestyle requires, while still under structure and supervision. We feel that our program is an effective alternative sentencing strategy to truly rehabilitate addicts whose disease has led them into legal problems.

  The formation of the Alpha Recovery program is a culmination of ideas and experiences of several people actively participating in 12-Step programs of recovery. Alpha Recovery staff has found that the ideas and theories taught in the 12-Step fellowships implemented in a structured living environment greatly enhance the chances of recovery.

  Alpha Recovery recognizes that the disease of addiction affects the addict physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, and that the success of any program of recovery lies in daily commitment to a twelve-step program. Alpha Recovery believes that regular attendance and application of the spiritual principles of these programs are the foundations for that success. The Alpha Recovery staff is made up of people who are professional treatment providers and/or recovering addicts, themselves. We are available to clients to help in teaching the twelve steps and the practical application of these principles in daily living. The programs of A.A. and N.A. teach us that there will come a time when nothing will stand between the addict and a drink or a drug but his relationship with his Higher Power. We, therefore, encourage spiritual growth.

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