Monte Nido® Eating Disorder Treatment Center
"Between the stimulus and response is a space. In this space lie our growth and happiness."

Steven Covey

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Chemical Dependency Treatment

Since its opening in 1996 Monte Nido has successfully been treating individuals who suffer from both an eating disorder and chemical dependency including alcohol abuse. You do not need to go to a separate program to deal with each of these issues. We treat both the symptoms as well as the underlying causes. Eating disorder symptoms and the abuse of drugs or alcohol serve the same or similar purposes and to get to the core issues, both have to be treated at the same time by a professional experienced in both. Many individuals get treatment for chemical dependency while the eating disorder goes unnoticed. This is likely to lead to neither issue being fully resolved or the eating disorder becoming worse over time. Likewise if you address your eating disorder but do not deal with the use of drugs and alcohol to ease pain, numb out, distract or self soothe, chances are you will not be able to fully recover to a full life.

Treatment at Monte Nido and affiliates is highly individualized so this leads to a treatment plan suited to your special needs. With excellent medical, nursing and psychiatric care we have been able to get people off of their addiction to pain medicine, alcohol, cocaine and other stimulants, marijuana, and several other unwarranted medications that were robbing the individual of healthy mind and body.

Our therapists are trained to handle problems with eating disorders and chemical dependency. Furthermore, we have therapists, themselves recovered from dual addictions. We arrange for involvement in 12 step meetings when appropriate and desired, and we work with your sponsor and/or help you find a sponsor.

The key to full recovery and the life you can have is to be able to reach out to others and eventually even to yourself instead of to food, or purging, or a number on the scale, or any substance in order to cope with problems or get your needs met. You will need help learning to affect tolerance and emotional regulation so that you will never have to rely on a coping mechanism that in the end causes even more suffering.

If you would like to speak with graduates of Monte Nido who have suffered from an eating disorder and chemical dependency please call our office and we will facilitate this for you.