Recovering Addicts find Sierra Tucson Treatment Center a Peaceful Haven

Sierra Tucson’s website describes the center as “a place where pain is met with compassion, fear is met with reassurance, and anger is met with understanding.” Created in 1983, the center is internationally recognized for its integrated treatment programs, which incorporate the 12-step philosophy, holistic approaches, and respect for the suffering of the individual. Sierra Tucson’s treatment model places equal emphasis on mind, body, spirit and emotions, operating under the premise that recovery begins only after the whole person is healed.

Addiction treatment at Sierra Tucson naturally extends beyond labeling patients by their addiction. While specializing in drug rehabilitation, as well as alcohol addiction treatment, the center works to resolve underlying core issues that can manifest in other self-destructive behaviors, such as nicotine addiction, steroid use, eating disorders, and sexual addiction.

The Ties that Bind

Family participation is a critical component of treatment. Family members, whose suffering is also validated by the therapy team, learn to practice communication skills, address issues in family history, and engage in intensive “feelings work.” Sierra Tucson teaches families that for the patient and for themselves, healing is an ongoing, life process.

Nature at Work

Located just north of Tucson, Arizona, the Sierra Tucson Treatment Center ambles over 160 acres and hosts 139 beds. The facility’s setting in the Santa Catalina mountain range, surrounded by wildlife of the high desert, is as much a part of the patient recovery program as prescribed therapy.

Patients rehabilitate in country lodges with semi-private rooms. Sierra Tucson boasts a fitness center, a labyrinth, a Kiva, and walking trails to draw patients from their inner worlds to an awareness of outside physical reality.

For more information, contact Sierra Tucson Treatment Center at 1-877-622-7535, or visit its website at www.sierratucson.com.