Adult Men

Addiction treatment for adult men is different from that provided for women and teenage boys. It is also focused on providing gender-specific recovery programs in safe and secure environments.

About Addiction Treatment for Adult Men

This type of addiction treatment tends to be highly intensive. It is designed to help adult men regain control over their substance abuse and addiction as well as improve their freedom, health, and wellness.

In many cases, it involves the use of specifically tailored programs provided by highly qualified and experienced recovery professionals. As a result, it can help you find recovery, healing, and hope. In the process, you will learn how to start living a lifestyle that is free of alcohol and drug dependency and abuse.

How It Works

While enrolled in a drug rehab program for adult men, you will not only get the opportunity to work on overcoming your substance abuse and addiction, you will also be able to address the issues that are specific to men within your age group.

Most of these programs will also challenge the stereotypes that might foster suppression of emotions, dominance, and control. In the process, you will learn how to adopt a more open view of your masculinity. Further, you will get the opportunity to understand how you can start expressing yourself more openly than you previously used to.

As a patient in such a program, you will continue discussing with others - including other addicts and recovery professionals - about the reasons why you would like to recover from your substance abuse and addiction. You will also get the opportunity to celebrate your progress towards sobriety.

Some of the topics that might be addressed in addiction treatment programs for adult men include but are not limited to:

• Control
• Fatherhood
• Male privilege
• Male role models
• Male sexuality
• Masculinity
• Men and emotions
• Men and friendships
• Men and spirituality
• Men and work
• Men as partners and husbands
• Men with trauma
• Power

Recovery Services for Adult Men

Most addiction treatment programs for adult men will provide a wide variety of recovery services that can help you get started on the road to sobriety and abstinence and away from your previous habits of abusing drugs and drinking alcohol excessively. These services may include:

• 12-step and non-12 step support group meetings
• Addiction and mental health evaluation and diagnosis
• Addiction educational lectures
• Anger management
• Continuing care or aftercare planning
• Dual diagnosis addiction treatment
• EMDR
• Exercise
• Family therapy
• Gender-specific group therapy
• Healthy sexuality counseling
• Individual therapy
• Medically managed detoxification
• Medication management
• Nicotine replacement therapy
• Nutrition services
• Recreation therapy
• Relapse prevention counseling
• Spiritual services
• Trauma counseling
• Yoga

Getting Help

The focus on issues that mostly affect men than other segments of the population makes addiction treatment programs for adult men ideal for men who are aged 18 years and above. Through these programs, you will get the opportunity to overcome your addiction as well as work through the other issues that you have been struggling with as an adult man that could have been contributing to your substance abuse.