Cocaine Addiction Treatment on St Simons Islands, Georgia

St. Simons understands the cycle of addiction can be hard to break on your own, especially when it comes to highly addictive narcotics like cocaine. This is why we offer comprehensive dual diagnosis treatment for adults and substance use disorder treatment for adolescents age 10-17 in the South Georgia community. 

As with all substance use, there are behavioral and physical signs that you can look out for if you are worried about addiction occurring. For cocaine use, typical signs include:

• Bursts of manic energy
• Speaking very fast and excessively
• Engaging in high-risk behaviors
• Reduced need for sleep 
• Startling incredibly easily 
• Hyperfocusing on one task for extended periods
• Paranoia
• Hallucinations
• Dilated pupils 
• Excessive sweating
• Rapid weight loss 
• Frequent nose bleeds

If you suspect someone of exhibiting cocaine abuse symptoms, it’s important to take the appropriate steps in seeking help.

Helping a loved one in active addiction can be daunting, but it is crucial. The right intervention can save someone’s life. It’s important to protect not only your loved one but also yourself at this time. Tools for helping someone through addiction include:

• Fostering Open Communication: The first step in helping someone overcome addiction is being able to talk about it. Shame and stigma are huge obstacles when it comes to addiction, so helping to ease those in your relationships is an important step towards recovery. 
• Reaching Out for Support: Support from loved ones is a vital tool when helping someone recover from addiction. We often think that the person in the addiction cycle is the only one that needs help, when in fact, their entire community can benefit from supporting each other. 
• Seeking Professional Treatment: Seeking professional treatment is vital when helping cocaine users detox in a medically-supervised environment, as well as address behaviors and underlying needs that drove them to substance abuse in the first place. 

At St Simons By-The-Sea, we offer treatment programs for ages 12 and up dealing with substance use disorder and other accompanying mental health issues. Our Adult dual-diagnosis program is designed to help treat co-occurring disorders alongside substance use disorder, while our adolescent program, for ages 12-17, focuses on the unique challenges of teenage drug use.

St. Simons offers a dual-diagnosis approach to substance use for adults due to the way that substance abuse affects and influences mental health. Our dual-diagnosis program helps to address underlying mental health conditions that developed either before or during active substance use, and traumas surrounding active substance use.

Our program uses the following tools to help patients confront their addiction and break the cycle: 

• Medical detoxification
• Frequent check-ins
• The 12-step approach to addiction
• Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
• Recreational therapy
• Group therapy
• Discharge planning

This approach creates a start-to-finish treatment plan created and overseen by addictionologists. 

Substance abuse works differently in the adolescent brain than in the adult brain. While our programs use the same tools and approaches, the adolescent program staff at St. Simon’s has specific experience in addressing the unique needs of teens experiencing addiction. Our program aims to not only help adolescents break out of addiction but to teach life-long coping mechanisms that can last into adulthood. 

St Simons By-The-Sea, on St Simons Island, Georgia, is here to help you and your family overcome addiction. Admissions representatives are available anytime, day or night, to perform a confidential intake assessment at no cost to you. Walk-ins are welcome, but we encourage individuals needing help, their loved one or their healthcare provider to call us first at 1-800-821-7224.

St Simons By-The-Sea is not an emergency facility. If you are experiencing a medical emergency, please call 911 and seek your nearest emergency room.