#RECOVERY UNPLUGGED TREATMENT CENTER PROFESSIONAL#

Our staff consists of world-class doctors and accomplished creative professionals, including award-winning songwriter Richie Suppa, who is our Director of Creative Recovery … Our weekly events emphasize that individuals in recovery and their support systems can be change agents, starting with their own lives and how they connect with fellow patients in the community. Recovery Unplugged offers all levels of care, including inpatient, outpatient, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization and is certified by JCAHO. As Paul states: “We are the world’s first addiction care entity to offer a fully music-based treatment paradigm, combining innovative music-based therapies with traditional treatment resources such as medically supervised detox, individualized counseling and relapse-prevention plans. Paul’s Recovery Unplugged organization is headquartered in Florida with multiple locations throughout the country that use music to help patients heal. It can be a healing experience and make us feel more hopeful. Recovery Unplugged shows that music can be magic. They keep us company when we’re alone and are like best friends. Or, as Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, a seminal rocker who has seen the wreckage that substance abuse can do to one’s life and career, relates, “Songs are the language of the soul. To be clear – 85% of the group’s clients are not singers or musicians but just ordinary people. His “Recovery UnPlugged” treatment centers, which started out in Florida and branched out across the country, have become showcases where the playing, listening to, and discussion of music are added to traditional methods of treatment leading to impressive results, according to the book. He describes for the reader his approach to dealing with his many patients in the book. Paul’s basic approach is to use the power of music, and its ability to connect an individual to powerful and subliminal associations of good times and healthful, wholesome living, to mitigate the urges and destructive effects of substance abuse.

#RECOVERY UNPLUGGED TREATMENT CENTER PROFESSIONAL#

Music Is Our Medicine is an account of his own personal and professional journey in the addiction treatment landscape and the organization’s treatment approach, which appeared on the Amazon Bestseller List shortly after its release. Over his 20-plus years in the industry, Paul has worked as a counselor, manager, court-appointed liaison, and consultant and has helped to open some of the most successful treatment organizations in the country. A veteran of the addiction treatment industry, he has combined his decades of experience with his deep love of music to create the Recovery Unplugged treatment model that has helped so many patients reclaim their lives from addiction. Paul is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Recovery Unplugged. Paul has had his own personal journey of confronting substance abuse, which has informed his therapeutic approach that uses music as an integral part of treatment. It was with great interest that Flatiron Hot’s team perused a copy of Paul Pellinger’s new book Music is our Medicine: The Story of Recovery Unplugged which recounts the author’s approach to treating substance abuse with music. So there is no better time for all of us in Flatiron and Chelsea to focus our attention on creative techniques to deal with the critical national problem. The observance raises awareness of mental and substance use disorders, celebrates individuals in long-term recovery, and acknowledges the work of prevention, treatment, and recovery support services nationwide. Particularly daunting as our society deals with the crisis is the over-emphasis on law enforcement, incarceration, and therapeutic drug treatment as primary options for treatment, often at the expense of more holistic, non-pharmacological and socially-based approaches.Īs it happens, September of this year across the country is being billed as “Recovery Month,” a national observance sponsored by SAMHSA, within the U.S. Accordingly, here at Flatiron Hot! News, any information that indicates progress, or original thinking and a new approach to these overwhelming problems, is something that we look to bring to the attention of our community.

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