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Guardian Recovery - Princeton Detox & Recovery Center
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Treatment Focus
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.
Primary Level of Care
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
Treatment Focus
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.
Primary Level of Care
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
Provider's Policy
Princeton Detox & Recovery Center will contact your insurance provider to learn more about your benefits and how you are covered. Their Treatment Advisors will share all your insurance benefit information with you in simple language so you can understand exactly what your coverage includes.
Guardian Recovery - Princeton Detox & Recovery Center
Guardian Recovery - Princeton Detox & Recovery Center
About Guardian Recovery - Princeton Detox & Recovery Center
Guardian Recovery - Princeton Detox & Recovery Center provides medically monitored detox, residential care, and outpatient care for clients with substance use disorders in a home-like setting. Princeton Detox & Recovery Center provides individual and group therapy as well as aftercare support via referrals and connections to residential rehabs, sober living homes, and outpatient programs.
For their detox, a typical stay can last 6 to 10 days. For clients seeking medication-assisted treatment to help with withdrawal symptoms and to make detox as comfortable as possible. Nurses monitor detox 24/7.
Comprehensive Evaluations and Care
Princeton Detox & Recovery Center begins treatment with medical, psychosocial, and psychological evaluations. These help their clinicians establish a safe and effective care plan, and they diagnose any underlying co-occurring conditions. Princeton also assigns each client a case manager. Their case manager oversees treatment, collaborating with the facility's clinical team, clients’ family members, and other treatment providers for a smooth handoff to continued care.
Evidence-Based Therapies
Clients can attend individual, group, and family therapy sessions. Princeton Detox & Recovery uses evidence-based therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) with motivational interviewing techniques. They also teach clients and their families about relapse prevention, and they educate all on addiction and the science behind it.
Detox in Comfort
Princeton Detox & Recovery Center welcomes clients into a comfortable, homelike environment during detox. They offer amenities like private rooms, wellness opportunities, and an on-site chef. Princeton Detox & Recovery Center also offers transport services for their tri-state area, or a sober escort who can travel with clients and offer support during the process.
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Center Overview
Treatment Focus
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.
Joint Commission Accredited
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Meet Your Care Team
Amanda Hilzer
Executive Director
M.Ed, LCADC, CCS, ICAADC, CAADC
Martha Goldman
Director of Nursing
RN, BSN, MA, NBCC, LAC
Shane Stone
Director of Operations
Alece Breig-Hanley
Clinical Lead
MA, CAADC, CCS
Jack Otto
Group Facilitator
Andrew McDowell-Miller
Business Development
Your Care Options
Specializations
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Detox
Detox fully and safely removes toxic substances from the body, allowing the next steps in treatment to begin with a clean slate.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Opioids
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
Prescription Drugs
It's possible to abuse any drug, even prescribed ones. If you crave a medication, or regularly take it more than directed, you may have an addiction.
Who We Treat
Young Adults
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
LGBTQ+
Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Midlife Adults
For adults ages 40+, treatment shifts to focus on the unique challenges, blocks, and risk factors of their age group, and unites peers in a similar community.
Treatment Services
Day Treatment
In a PHP, patients live at home but follow an intensive schedule of treatment. Most programs require you to be on-site for about 40 hours per week.
Detox
Detox fully and safely removes toxic substances from the body, allowing the next steps in treatment to begin with a clean slate.
Intensive Outpatient Program
In an IOP, patients live at home or a sober living, but attend treatment typically 9-15 hours a week. Most programs include talk therapy, support groups, and other methods.
Outpatient
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
Residential
In a residential rehab program, patients live onsite, with access to daily treatment and 24-hour care. An average stay is 30-90 days.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Medication-Assisted Treatment
Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.
Meditation & Mindfulness
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
Motivational Interviewing
Based on the idea that motivation to change comes from within, providers use a conversational framework to discover personalized methods for change.
Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Therapy (MET)
This approach is based on idea that motivation to change comes from within. Providers use a conversational framework that may help you commit to recovery.
Nutrition Counseling
Nutritious food helps patients heal from within, setting them up for mental and bodily wellness as they learn about healthy eating.
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Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.
Opioids
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
Aftercare
Care Designed for Your Needs
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
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What people are saying
Treatment
4.7
Accommodations
4.7
Food & Nutrition
4.7
Value
4.6
Pros
- Friendly & Competent Staff (36)
- Treated With Respect (28)
- Luxurious Accommodations (27)
- Supportive Aftercare (26)
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•Retail management
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•New York
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•Pennsylvania