Question: What makes Pavillon’s care different? Answer: Our approach during treatment, and our alumni services after treatment. How so? I’m glad you asked. The bio-psycho-social-spiritual model means we treat the person as a whole person. And our clinical team is specifically designed to match that very model. So, for example, we have: A full-time physician who serves as our medical…
What does Pavillon’s Extended Care program do? And who is it for? The Extended Care program at Pavillon helps to: strengthen one’s recovery when recovery by itself is in decline; address patterns of recovery and relapse when they are repeating over time; manage the complexity some people experience that routine treatment does not usually provide. Example 1: Slowly losing altitude.…
Family visitation can be both a wonderful thing and an important opportunity. But how so? And in what ways? Photo Credit: Natalie Pedigo, Unsplash Well, family visitation can help start the process of normalizing both the new that is special and also the new that is every-day and mundane. Sometimes life is a little harder and a little more complicated than…
Alcoholism and drug addiction rarely develop in social isolation. After all, people rarely exist in social isolation. In treatment settings we see the reality of the social embeddedness of this disease in the reactions of the patient and family members to the opportunity for change. Change can be hard even when it’s desired. After all, we spend our lifetimes practicing…
Each year around the time of our Alumni reunion we count up the total number of years of individual recovery that are represented among our staff. How many collective years of recovery do you guess the Pavillon staff have? And what good can be found in that collective wisdom? To start thinking about the value of such wisdom, let’s use…
The Pavillon campus sits on just over 160 acres of natural and luxurious land in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, about 45 minutes from Asheville. The campus contains a natural waterfall, a lake, walking trails around the lake, and trails through the woods. Those woods themselves contain a treeless meadow at the top of…
One of the greatest health issues plaguing our society, identified by the World Health Organization as “the biggest health epidemic of the 21st century” is stress leading to burnout. It is believed to cost Americans up to $300 billion per year in healthcare costs, both personal and business. It impacts every part of your physical, social, psychological, and spiritual self…
Have you ever wondered if there are any medications that are not addictive, and can also help with an alcohol use disorder? Some of the most reliable, useful, and brief information sources for details of this kind, written for the public, are found at the: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Substance…
Many who reach the jumping off point for recovery are at a loss as to how to get started. For years they’ve tried to quit but were unable to. Now that a crisis (physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual) has precipitated a desperate need to stop using, they feel alone and lost. If they are fortunate enough to enter a recovery…
Part of the recovery process is learning about ourselves, re-starting our personal spirituality, and finding a spiritual higher power. This is not always easy work and we would often much rather focus on something other than our inner work. If the distraction of technology is available, it is easy to turn away from this challenging, but much needed, important work.…