Addiction Services

Treatment and Support to Help You Regain Control

Addiction is a disease that dramatically affects the sufferer as well as his or her loved ones, and produces biological and psychological symptoms. Those with a drug or alcohol addiction often withdraw, feel pain or unpleasantness when the substance is withheld, and are in denial of this serious issue that can control their lives.

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 At the Blake Recovery Center (BRC) at Carrier Clinic, a freestanding New Jersey Department of Addiction Services-licensed residential alcohol and substance abuse treatment program, addiction can be treated in a caring, supportive environment.

Opened in 1981, BRC reflects the latest advances in the effective treatment of addiction. Our program provides medically-monitored detoxification and residential rehabilitation care for individuals suffering from drug and alcohol dependence.


The Road to Recovery

BRC's residential rehabilitation program initiates the process of recovery and encompasses a comprehensive treatment plan specific to the medical, emotional and social needs of each individual. Our proactive approach includes individual/group counseling, family intervention, addiction education, physical education/exercise, medical stabilization, and self-help support recovery via Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and/or Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings.


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The goals of Blake Recovery Center:

    BRC Detoxification Program
  • to safely achieve a medically-monitored withdrawal from dependent substances
  • to assess the individual’s ability to succeed by utilizing the Stages of Change
  • To provide an introduction to the recovery process and foster acceptance of further treatment

    • BRC Residential Rehabilitation Program
  • to initiate or continue abstinence when appropriate
  • to identify and treat emotional/behavioral conditions that may complicate recovery
  • to develop specific coping skills for relapse prevention
  • to strengthen the recovery environment
  • to link to further treatment and support resources
  • to incorporate evidence based practices into the individual’s specific treatment plan, such as suboxone detox for opiates, stress and anger management skills, relapse prevention plans.
  • to involve the family and loved ones in the recovery process through education, support and appropriate referral
  • to engage the patient and family in the recovery process from admission through discharge plan


Outpatient Addiction:

The Outpatient Addiction Treatment Services of Carrier Clinic offers comprehensive addiction treatment to patients and their families when the severity of addictive disease does not require residential treatment. The treatment approach is based on the 12-Step philosophy in tandem with an individualized evaluation and treatment plan for his or her specific needs-one that focuses on understanding the disease concept of addiction, and the need for relapse prevention skills.

What is addiction?
Addiction is a biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual disease which affects virtually every aspect of an addict’s life. Consequences of addictive behaviors increase as the addicted person’s progression continues. Those participating in Carrier Clinic’s Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) are properly educated about these aspects of addiction.

Why is an IOP important?
It helps addicts and alcoholics during the early stages of the recovery process. Those who have been abusing substances for a period of time have difficulties that include the lack of coping skills to deal with life problems without the use of drugs or alcohol. Problem solving and the identification and utilization of coping skills is vital for the addict to maintain recovery, and is a major focus at the Carrier Clinic IOP.

Also, addicts and alcoholics also experience cravings and urges that could cause a slip back into active addiction very easily. The support of an IOP can be the difference between relapse and recovery for an addict early in the process.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is utilized during treatment to address the addictive thought process, dysfunctional emotions, behavioral, and cognitive concerns.

IOP Program Hours
Carrier Clinic’s IOP program hours are: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 pm. Participants are expected to comply with random urine drug screening and blood alcohol level testing to insure honesty in the recovery process.

Family Support
Because addiction affects everyone in the life of a person with a substance abuse problem and can be very difficult to understand for both the addicted person and family, our Tuesday night sessions are focused on the addicts and their families. Family members are encouraged to attend the group with their loved one for a dynamic educational and process group that allows for open communication and mutual understanding of: expectations, family systems, codependence, enabling behavior, relapse, and boundary setting.

Parents Support Group
This confidential support group helps parents to understand and cope with their children’s disease of addiction to drugs and alcohol. The support group is run by Parents Support Group of New Jersey Inc., which believes that addiction is an illness and that changed attitudes and responses by the parents can greatly help a child’s recovery. Our mothers and fathers refer to their sons and daughters as children, even though they range in age from 18 to 40.

This group meets Mondays, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Conference Center at Carrier Clinic. This support group is facilitated by the Parents Support Groups of New Jersey Inc. For more information, please call (973) 736-3344.


Dual Diagnosis
The Carrier Clinic IOP is a straight addictions program; however, we accept Dual Diagnosis Clients (DDX) who are stable on their medication if the patient has an outside psychiatrist and is willing to sign a release to ensure treatment collaboration.

Comprehensive Support
Clients will meet with a therapist individually for treatment planning and reviews, assessments, or as needed. The combination of individual therapy, group process sessions, didactic sessions and family involvement has been received extremely well by all involved in the treatment process.

Alumni Program
Substance Recovery Center Alumni Meetings are held on the first and third Tuesday of each month at Blake Recovery Center at 6:30 p.m. (optional AA meeting at 8:00 p.m.). This alumni chapter supports graduates in making the transition from treatment into recovering life by providing fellowship and encouragement. Length of sobriety ranges from days to 30 years. This is not to replace a 12-Step program, but to enhance recovery.

Weekend Codependency Program
Carrier Clinic provides a weekend therapeutic educational and guidance program for family members and friends whose lives are impacted by another’s addiction. Recovering addicts may also attend. Components of the six-week series (though many come after that time as needed) include educational lectures, discussion groups (including a parent’s group), informational videos, and the opportunity to meet with addiction treatment professionals.

Participants have a choice of attending Saturday or Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (registration begins at 9:30 a.m.), on Carrier Clinic’s Belle Mead campus, in the Atkinson Amphitheatre. No pre-registration is required.

Bright Futures for Kids
The Bright Futures for Kids program serves children ages 4-12 who are affected by a family member’s addiction. The program is designed to help children express their feelings while learning coping skills, instilling cooperation, responsibility, maintaining a drug-free lifestyle, resisting peer pressure, and encouraging positive communication.

Program components include problem solving, decision-making, peer pressure and communication. This group meets Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Classroom #3, Atkinson Amphitheatre.

For more information on these programs please, call the Community Relations Department at (908) 281-1513.