A&M Recovery provides outpatient treatment for adults with drug and alcohol problems in Springfield, Missouri. Its program runs 16 weeks and rests on a holistic view of recovery, one that treats addiction as affecting a person physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually, and as something that reaches the whole family rather than the individual alone.
A 16-Week Outpatient Program
Clients attend two-hour groups twice a week for the length of the program, and during the first eight weeks they also meet individually with a counselor to work on cravings and the pull of dependency. Group content varies rather than repeating a single format. Some sessions cover alcohol and drug education, while others focus on rebuilding a life, on relationships and boundaries, on life skills, or on issues specific to women, and process groups give clients room to work through whatever is surfacing. Random drug screening runs alongside the program as a check on accountability. Counselors are certified by the state, hold at least a bachelor’s degree, or both.
The Center’s Approach to Recovery
A&M Recovery treats chemical dependency as a chronic condition from which people can and do recover, and it frames the work in four parts: stopping substance use, changing the attitudes and actions that supported it, cutting ties with the settings and company bound up with using, and putting a support network in place. The center endorses twelve-step principles and encourages clients to get involved with Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, or a faith community, so the support built during the program carries on after it ends.