SOUTH AFRICAN REHAB CENTER PRIMARY & SECONDARY CARTER GORDON CLINICS

Carter Gordon Clinics are quickly becoming the South African treatment group of choice for many people around the world. CGC are committed to providing patients with an individualised Sustainable Wellness Strategy to help ensure their long-term success. Situated in Plettenberg Bay along the dramatic coastline of the Garden Route, CGC offers patients a truly unique experience in which to recover.

In treating the whole person, it is crucial to address any emotional or psychiatric problems that may trigger a return to active addiction. Stabilising these issues and providing patients with an opportunity to accept more personal responsibility for their lives (in particular their post treatment plans in consultation with supportive family members and the clinical team) plays an important role in the development of the individualised Sustainable Wellness Strategy.



Dual diagnosis patients often require medication to assist in managing their condition; some patients need pain management techniques, and as everyone is prone to sickness from time to time, all patients need to gain an understanding of coping with sickness through the use of non mind and mood altering methods. Whilst not a medical facility, the clinic prohibits the use of dependency producing medications, e.g. codeine and benzodiazepines, and ensures that patients receive basic pharmaceutical awareness in order to sustain their ongoing recovery.

The clinic provides fully inclusive primary residential care for a total of fifteen patients, specialising in the treatment of addictive disorders, primarily alcoholism & drug dependence. Detoxification is also provided with full 24-hour nursing support. Based on the Twelve Step Minnesota Model, the treatment programme incorporates group and individual therapy sessions, lectures, workshops and regular attendance at local Fellowship meetings.



In addition to the intensive treatment programme, patients are also offered a host of recreational activities which are seen to be therapeutically beneficial to the overall wellbeing of the individual. Activities include morning walks along the beach, horseback riding through pristine game parks, water-sports and overnight outbound excursions, to name but a few.

The typical length of stay for a recovery program at CGC is twelve weeks; six weeks in primary care and another six weeks in the secondary care phase. The clinic will consider shorter periods of treatment by negotiation, dependent on patient need.



Secondary care, again a residential programme, allows patients the time & space to explore their issues, some of which may pre-date their active addiction. Such issues may involve grief, interpersonal difficulties and communication styles, as well as social and familial struggles.

The tertiary care phase of treatment, more commonly known as a ‘halfway house’ can be a long-term, cost effective means of allowing patients to return to their families and/or community in a more productive and structured manner whilst still receiving a level of support and monitoring.


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