First Drug Detox Center to Offer Private Services to Open in NC

GASTONIA, N.C. - July 31, 2018 - PRLog -- A drug detox center that is scheduled to be open next month will be the first in the state to offer privately funded drug detoxification services.

Freedom Detox Center will feature approximately 30 nurses, physicians as well as other specialists who will work together to assist patients during their stay and focus on providing medically-managed detoxification plans, which usually include varied types of medications to facilitate a patient's transition to sobriety and make each person as comfortable as possible.

Freedom Detox Center will have the capacity to accommodate up to 16 patients in 10 private rooms and three double-occupancy rooms.

Patients will be able to go through the detoxification process for longer or shorter periods, staying at the center only for a few days or for weeks. But the representatives believe that the majority of them are expected to be residing and detoxing at the facility for five to seven days.

The drug detox center is going to be privately funded and owned but it will be a fellow organization of the Legacy Freedom Treatment Center, a healthcare provider that offers scholarships and inclusive substance use disorder treatment programs along with other mental health therapies and has three locations in North Carolina — in Raleigh, Charlotte and Ashville — and one in Columbus, Ohio.

The representatives of the Freedom Detox Center have highlighted that the journey to launch the new drug detox facility has not been a simple one but an extensive process that has been going on for the past five years or so.

The process was not only extensive but also expensive, they said.

The representatives of the center added that their expenses were primarily associated with required documents such as permits and licenses that are required by the local authorities. But they highlighted that there was an evident need for a privately-owned drug detox center to come to North Carolina.

According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, approximately 4,200 people in the state have received federally-funded outpatient opioid addiction treatment services and more than 2,000 received medication-assisted treatment since May 2017.

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