Carter Gordon Clinics

Centre Description

UK Mobile Number 0845-331-1000

At current exchange rates we can offer comparable treatment programmes and facilities for significantly lower cost.

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Carter Gordon Clinics

Carter Gordon Clinics provides the full continuum of treatment programmes from Detoxification & Out-Patients to Halfway House sober living environments.

The main thrust of the Carter Gordon recovery program is to assist the alcoholic or addicted patient in recognizing that addiction is a primary, progressive chronic illness, not a secondary sign or symptom of some underlying mental or emotional disorder, nor a manifestation of a moral consequence, character weakness, or psychological dysfunction.

“We teach alcoholics and addicts to approach their disease as a treatable condition with a high potential for lasting recovery.”

All our programmes are based on the 12 step facilitation model and are specifically tailored to meet the needs of the individual with a particular emphasis on achieving and maintaining a “Sustainable Recovery”.

Our staff team comprises internationally accredited addictions counsellors, supported by consultant psychiatric, medical and psychological staff.

Why Carter Gordon?

We’re assuming that you or a loved one has a serious problem relating to drugs or alcohol and you are visiting our website in search of solutions. We also empathise with the fact that there is vast choice of treatments presented on the internet. Understanding them, and choosing the right treatment centre to get well is often challenging, time consuming and fraught with questions - so how can we help?

We want to explain clearly, quickly and simply, why in the majority of addiction / alcohol related illnesses we are among a select few that are best suited to provide those solutions.

There are three areas to carefully consider when making your decision:

Type and Quality of Care – We offer a “12 Step Plus” approach based on the Minnesota Model of addiction treatment. This type of addiction treatment is multi-disciplinary and eclectic, combining the best of different schools of thought, including Cognitive Behavioural and Motivational Enhancement Therapies and started in the USA in the 1950’s. This modality is used by the majority of upmarket addiction treatment providers and is regarded to be highly effective. The Carter Gordon overall level of care, our staff and their qualifications, as well as the facilities and our programme, all compete with the leading addiction and alcohol treatment centre standards of the UK and Europe.

Cost – Treatment can be expensive! We offer a 12 week treatment plan (which is important because once severely dependent there is a direct link between the length of treatment and the success of treatment) for less than the price it costs to stay for four weeks at the UK’s leading private healthcare treatment centres. We do this not by comprising on standards but by benefiting from strong exchange rate differences and we pass those savings to you.

Location – We have an idyllic temperate climate, Plettenberg Bay is an exquisite place to go for treatment, rest, and recuperation. The feedback we receive from the majority of our ex-patients is that spending time away from their usual environments helps enormously with the lifestyle changes necessary to stay in recovery from addiction, furthermore that the climate and stunning environment has a positive effect on their attitude and helps them during the difficult times.

So what next? We want to further reassure you of the above by showing you three quick videos that were voluntarily filmed by ex-patients we have helped to get well, in the hope that you can you understand better why choosing Carter Gordon Clinics for support is the best choice you’ll make. First we have an overview of our operations, next you can view a brief synopsis of our medical team and a taste of the professionalism deployed within in our programme and lastly a focus on some of the myths around treatment, the facts, help and answers we provide to you in getting the best care.

Treatment Philosophy

The programme is based on current research that chemically dependent persons1 need to remain abstinent from mood altering drugs and/or and that the ability to achieve individual potential, as well as forming meaningful relationships are vital in the recovery from their condition.

The aim of the Carter Gordon addiction rehabilitation programme is to help the addicted person achieve two long-term goals:

Abstinence from mood altering drugs
An improved life style

The pursuit of these goals is lifelong; therefore the treatment programme is looked upon as only the beginning of a lifestyle which is conducive to sobriety and good recovery.

However, movement towards these goals can be demonstrated in the “here and now”, during a person’s participation in the day to day recovery activities of the rehab programme.


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