Your Way Back to a New Life Personalized Programs for Alcohol and Substance Abuse

Recovery means coming home to your self  and rediscovering others. You can regain your life. Addictions destroys dreams. Recovery facilitates recapturing dreams, regaining a sense of self and rediscovering the important others in your life. It's the way back to a new, healthy, full-functioning you. HealthWays helps recover the value of your life. We treat the individual and the individual disease. Alcohol and drug addiction is a potentially fatal disease. It destroys physical and emotional health. It can devastate people and families in a myriad of ways. HealthWays assesses each individual, does appropriate testing and prescribes treatment that is best for the person's unique circumstances and level of addiction. There is no "one-size-fits-all" treatment. In fact, HealthWays has the resources, staff and expertise to treat both addiction and mental disorders at the same time. We design treatment around you and your disease.

That treatment can come from a spectrum of programs, including: ▪ Individual, group, marital and family counseling. ▪ Initial in-hospital detoxification and medical assessment ▪ Intensive outpatient programs ▪ Inpatient, residential program ▪ Relapse prevention counseling ▪ After-care counseling and transitional assistance ▪ Co-dependency therapy groups ▪ Driving-Under-the-Influence program ▪ Prevention and education presentations ▪ Counseling in schools, businesses and community.

Competent, compassionate, continuum of care.
HealthWays is a private, nonprofit organization created from our community in 1963. Since then, we have been effectively and compassionately treating addiction as well as other behavioral problems.

Our substance abuse staff consists of highly trained, deeply experienced professionals that include psychiatrists, psychologists, masters-level therapists and technicians. In fact, our residential substance abuse program has been selected as a model training facility for the state of West Virginia. Our mission is to help people by providing competent, compassionate and comprehensive programs that enhance lives. We embrace our mission every day.

Miracles, Passages and other ways back to a stable, healthy life. 
Our addictions clients will receive the treatment that will help them best. Some of those programs include:

Passages for Growth Intensive Outpatient Program is an Outpatient Program for Adults with Substance Abuse problems which began operation during 2005. It is located at 3306 Main Street in Weirton, WV, this 12-week program serves adults who have been diagnosed with both mental health and substance dependent conditions. Consumers will attend approximately 9 to 12 hours per week and complete intensive group and individual therapy. The program will be based on consumer’s willingness to improve their emotional and physical well-being along with community networking with the 12 Step Support Systems.

Dr. Lee Jones Miracles Happen Center is a program that opened April 2005. It is a 10-bed facility for males for the treatment of the chemically dependent. The program accepts males 18 years of age and older. The staff has a combined 71 years in the addiction field. The facility will offer residential services, Day/Evening Intensive Outpatient services. The facility is located at 201 Edgington Lane in Wheeling, WV.

Adult Substance Abuse Program. Licensed, certified addiction counselors provide therapeutic services to adults and family members experiencing problems related to substance abuse. Services include, but are not limited to individual, group, family therapy, and specialized programming offered to women substance abusers. Another component of this program is the DUI Safety and Treatment Program, which are provided through a contract with the Department of Motor Vehicles.  This program is located in Weirton and may be contacted at 304-723-5440.

Adolescent Substance Abuse Services. HealthWays offers an array of direct and indirect clinical services to substance abusing or drug dependent adolescents and their families. The program also provides off-site services such as evaluation and counseling in the area’s schools.  This program is located in Weirton and may be contacted at 304-723-5440.

Renaissance Adolescent Program is an Outpatient Program for Adolescents which opened in September 2006. It is 6-week program which serves teen’s ages 13-17 who are struggling with both substance/alcohol and mental health treatment needs. The program provides 9 weekly hours of individual, group and family therapy for teens based on their unique treatment needs.