Understanding Treatment for #1stresponders

Sierra Tucson

Safe Call Now® only offers the highest quality of care America has to offer for all first responders and their family members.  Those that we refer to are vetted through a rigorous process to insure you only get the best.  Our experience has been that many providers offer you the “world” and have really incredible websites and specifically market to the first responder.  After the vetting process we have found that they can’t do what they say they can do and it only hurts you in the end.  Today we would like to highlight one of our providers that has saved the lives of many first responders and give you a better understanding of what quality treatment is all about. Safe Call Now® feels it is important to provide you with information to save yours or a loved ones life!!!

Sierra Tucson: Offering Premium Individualized Treatment & Recovery Programs for More Than 30 Years

Sierra Tucson is an internationally renowned treatment facility that has helped thousands of people rebuild their lives over the past 30 years.

Dually licensed by the state of Arizona and dually accredited by The Joint Commission, Sierra Tucson is known and respected as a leader in the treatment of addictions, complex mental health issues, and co-occurring disorders. The professional, experienced, and caring staff develop individualized treatment plans for each patient.

Progressive, effective therapies help every individual discover, confront, and learn to manage the issues at the very heart of human behavior and disease.

Treatment Therapies

Sierra Tucson is not your typical treatment center. We recognize that specific therapies may work for some patients and not for others, and we have designed a treatment program that incorporates both traditional and integrative therapies to assist you in your recovery.

As part of your individualized treatment plan, you will be provided the therapies that will work best to treat your drug or alcohol addiction, eating disorder, depression, anxiety, emotional trauma, or chronic pain. Sierra Tucson applies numerous traditional therapies in combination with innovative and complementary therapies.

Why Sierra Tucson?

Located in the heart of the Sonoran Desert just north of Tucson, Arizona, we offer a healing environment that mirrors our surroundings; at once expansive and embracing. The Sierra Tucson campus nestles comfortably into the surrounding desert and mountains, drawing on its quiet beauty, inherent strength, and enduring ability to inspire.

Addiction Recovery Programs

The acclaimed Sierra Tucson treatment philosophy, expressed as the Sierra Model®, recognizes that we all exist as mind, body, spirit, and emotions. The combination of both traditional and innovative therapies engages patients experientially. Only after healing progresses beyond the symptomatic to embrace the whole person does real recovery begin. Our experience and success is in helping patients move beyond underlying problems to true recovery.

Sierra Tucson excels in treating co-occurring disorders, including addictions, trauma, eating disorders, mood disorders, and chronic pain.

A Typical Day at Sierra Tucson

The day for the patient begins early with breakfast at 6:45 a.m. (6:30 a.m. for eating disorder patients). A lecture, group, and/or community meeting are scheduled on some days. After lunch, patients attend specialty groups and family programs, depending on their needs and diagnoses. Dinner is served around 5:00 p.m., followed by evening lectures, relapse groups, counseling, assignments, and Twelve-Step meetings. Sierra Tucson's rich day of programming usually ends at 9:00 - 9:30 p.m. 

Also throughout the day, patients attend specific lectures and consult with doctors and specialty therapists, according to their specific needs. Other therapeutic activities may include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Acupuncture, Equine-Assisted Therapy, Challenge Course, Yoga, fitness, and other healthy recreational activities.

Family Program

Sierra Tucson's Family Program is an integral part of the treatment process. Patients are strongly encouraged to invite family members and/or significant others to participate in this four-day process, at no additional charge. The only cost to family members is the cost of travel, hotel accommodations, and meals (lunch is provided at Sierra Tucson, as well as dinner on Thursday evening). The Family Program begins on Monday at 8:00 a.m. and ends Thursday at 6:15 p.m.

The Family Program provides a time of healing for both patients and family, 18 years and over. Family members are provided educational opportunities to learn about different diseases and disorders plus time to process the years of pain that are brought on by addiction or behavioral issues. Continuing care recommendations are given to family members to support their ongoing recovery.