From Addiction Crisis to Treatment and Recovery

When addiction affects an individual or family, the problem is rarely just finding the name of a rehab.

Someone has to understand what is happening, identify immediate risks, work out what level of care may be needed, manage resistance, prepare the family, organise admission and make sure the next step is practical.

That is where We Do Recover works.

We provide professional addiction intervention, assessment, treatment coordination and admission support for individuals, families and organisations.

Our involvement can begin before a person agrees to treatment and continue through admission, treatment transitions and continuing recovery support.

Your first conversation

The first conversation is about understanding the situation.

We may ask about:

  • alcohol or drugs being used;
  • when the person last used;
  • withdrawal or overdose history;
  • physical and psychiatric health;
  • medication;
  • previous treatment;
  • current safety risks;
  • family circumstances;
  • willingness or refusal;
  • location and timing;
  • medical aid or private funding.

The purpose is not to fit somebody into the first available bed. It is to understand what needs to happen next.

If there is an immediate medical or psychiatric emergency, emergency treatment may be required before an addiction-treatment admission can be considered.

Intervention when someone refuses help

A person does not always ask for treatment voluntarily.

Families and employers can seek professional help even while the person is refusing treatment.

We Do Recover provides professional interventions for families, employers and EAPs internationally.

An intervention is prepared around the individual circumstances, treatment requirements, family or workplace boundaries and what will happen if the person agrees to enter treatment.

Gareth Carter, CCMI-M, has worked in addiction treatment and intervention for more than 30 years and has conducted more than 200 interventions.

Assessment and treatment planning

Different people need different levels of care.

The appropriate pathway may involve:

  • medical assessment;
  • medically supervised detoxification;
  • psychiatric assessment or stabilisation;
  • inpatient addiction rehabilitation;
  • outpatient treatment;
  • longer-term residential treatment;
  • sober living or halfway-house care;
  • psychological or psychiatric treatment;
  • family treatment;
  • aftercare and continuing recovery support.

We help establish what needs to be considered and coordinate the practical pathway into suitable care.

Final diagnosis, prescribing, medical detoxification and regulated clinical treatment are delivered by the appropriately qualified professionals responsible for that care.

Admission

Once a suitable treatment pathway has been identified, We Do Recover can help coordinate the practical admission process.

That may include:

  • timing and availability;
  • required documents;
  • transport;
  • medication information;
  • communication with family;
  • medical-aid or private-payment requirements;
  • transfer between levels of care.

Where medical aid is being used, the treating provider manages the formal pre-authorisation and clinical motivation.

Transport, chaperoning and sober companionship

Where appropriate, We Do Recover can arrange professional support around the transition into or out of treatment.

This can include:

  • treatment transport;
  • sober chaperoning;
  • international treatment travel support;
  • sober companionship;
  • practical support around admission or continuing recovery.

These services can be arranged internationally, including Africa, Europe, Asia, North America and South America, depending on the individual circumstances.

Families remain part of the process

Addiction affects more than the person using alcohol or drugs.

Families often need guidance about communication, intervention, boundaries, treatment choices, admission and what happens after treatment.

Our role is not simply to get somebody through the door of a facility. The treatment pathway should make sense before admission and continue beyond discharge.

About We Do Recover

We Do Recover Pty provides addiction intervention, assessment, treatment coordination and admission support for individuals, families and organisations.

Gareth Carter, CCMI-M, has worked in the addiction field for more than 30 years and has conducted more than 200 interventions.

We Do Recover is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Transport, chaperoning, sober companionship and intervention services can be arranged internationally.

What We Do Recover does not do

We do not replace the doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker or clinical treatment team responsible for regulated healthcare.

We do not guarantee:

  • admission;
  • medical-aid authorisation;
  • payment by a scheme;
  • a particular treatment outcome;
  • that a specific treatment centre will accept a person;
  • success from an intervention.

We provide professional intervention, assessment, coordination and support so that individuals and families can make informed decisions and move from crisis toward appropriate treatment.

Speak to We Do Recover

You do not need to know exactly what kind of treatment is required before contacting us.

Tell us what is happening. We can help establish the next practical step.

Call or WhatsApp +27 82 747 3422
Email [email protected]
Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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