Connecticut Inpatient Drug Rehab Centers

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Geralyn Tagatac

Business Manager Aware Recovery Care In-Home Addiction Treatment in Connecticut

Geralyn Tagatac brings over 30 years of sales and office experience to her role as Business Manager. She is passionate about self-improvement and excited to be involved with a company dedicated to helping people set personal goals and lead happy, healthy lives. Geralyn holds a BA in English from SCSU. She enjoys writing, hiking, cycling, running, and traveling.

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Megan Tredennick, LPC, LADC, ADS, NCC

Therapist Aware Recovery Care Outpatient CT

As a private practice psychotherapist, Megan strives to assist her clients in finding meaning behind their challenges and identifying their purposes for the future. She holds a Master's Degree from Fairfield University in Community Counseling. She is a licensed Professional Counselor (2010) and is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (since 2014). She is also an auricular acupuncture detoxification specialist which is a holistic intervention used to reduce cravings, urges, withdrawal symptoms, and reduce anxiety amongst others benefits. It is also known as the NADA Protocol. In 2015, she was a National presenter in Cleveland, OH on a clinical study she completed on the use of acupuncture with addiction with her clients. She is also trained in EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) which is a therapy approach that can be applied to most mental health issues (heavily targets those with a trauma history) or addiction related goals. She has worked for Cornell-Scott Hill Health Center in New Haven, CT for 6.5 years as an outpatient therapist and the last 3.5 has been a senior therapist at South Central Rehabilitation Center. There, she works on a detox unit and with outpatient clients on a variety of different medication assisted therapies. Currently, she has a private practice with a strong focus in co-occurring disorders treatment. In her spare time, Megan enjoys traveling, snowboarding, swimming, and has a passion for nutrition and fitness

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Danielle Meldon, RCP

Program Director Westport House Sober Living for Men

Passionate about her purpose in life, Danielle oversees all aspects of day-to-day operations of our sober living facilities, including staff management and client programming. She continually seeks opportunities to improve our services to ensure that clients receive a high quality, individualized experience during their time at Westport House. Danielle is a dynamic leader, both in the local recovery community and at Westport House. Her incredible passion stems from over a decade of personal recovery and extensive experience working with individuals suffering from addiction and co-occurring disorders. Before joining Westport House, Danielle spent over five years at Turnbridge in New Haven, CT, where she served as a Program Director and was instrumental in creating and developing a long-term treatment program serving young adult females. She began her career in addiction services at MCCA in Danbury, CT where she served in several direct care roles in their long-term residential and outpatient services departments. Danielle is a CCAR-trained Recovery Coach Professional and will complete her Certified Addiction Counselor training program in 2018.

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Treatment Facts

• Connecticut ranks 4th in treatment centers servicing/accepting persons with HIV or AIDS per 100,000 residents. Massachusetts is ranked one spot worse at spot 5. District of Columbia is ranked slightly better, ranked 3.
• When adjusted for population, Connecticut ranks 6th in treatment centers servicing/accepting medicare. Kentucky is just 1 spot worse, ranked 7 out of the United States. West Virginia is just 1 spot better, ranked 5 out of the United States.
• For clients with co-occurring disorders clients, Connecticut ranks 6th in population-adjusted treatment centers. Colorado is just 1 spot worse, ranked 7 out of the United States. Utah is ranked one spot better at spot 5.
• Connecticut is 7th among U.S. states in treatment centers servicing or accepting adult men. Colorado is just 1 spot worse, ranked 8 out of the United States. Maryland is ranked one spot better at spot 6.
• Connecticut ranks 8th in treatment centers servicing/accepting access to Recovery (ATR) vouchers per 100,000 residents. Maryland is ranked one spot worse at spot 9. One spot better is Rhode Island, ranked 7 in the U.S.

More Information

One of the most comprehensive drug and alcohol use studies in the country is published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Each year they survey Americans in every state to find out who’s using what, how often, and whether or not they’re getting the treatment they need.

The numbers for Connecticut’s most recent survey results are published in a document called Connecticut Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues At-A-Glance – and they are troubling.

Drug Abuse Among Young Adults

The SAMHSA surveys reports that more than 23 percent of that age group had a problem with alcohol abuse or dependence in the year prior to the survey. Additionally, about 12 percent of that same age group struggled with a drug abuse or addiction issue in that same time period. Why?

The stresses placed upon young adults grow every year and those who graduate from expensive Connecticut universities into a less-than-welcoming economic climate can find it overwhelming. Add to this the usual pressures of performing well academically, choosing the right career, getting into grad school, and making the right choices in their romantic relationships and it’s not hard to understand why drug and alcohol abuse is such a rampant problem.

Addressing the Drug and Alcohol Addiction Issues in Your Family

When a loved one is struggling with drug and/or alcohol dependence, everyone in the family suffers. Problems arise:

Though you may have already had a number of informal conversations about the possibility of treatment, it may be time to consider staging a formal intervention. Gathering together others who love your addicted family member and planning to offer them the gift of recovery is a big step – but in many cases, it’s a necessary step. It can be the first day that your loved one fully realizes the level of risk that they are taking every day that drug addiction goes untreated.

Staging an Intervention

Before you stage an intervention in Connecticut, take the time to plan it correctly. The more you put into it before the actual intervention, the more likely it is that it will be successful. You can:

Are you ready to help someone you love in Connecticut recover from drug and alcohol dependence?