First at Blue Ridge

32 Knox Road
Ridgecrest, NC 28770

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About First at Blue Ridge

First at Blue Ridge is a drug and alcohol addiction rehab facility based in Ridgecrest, North Carolina. The facility provides comprehensive substance abuse treatment services to men, women, women with children, and veterans. Services include inpatient programs, transitional housing, and aftercare. Specialized services are available for justice involved clients and homeless/indigent persons. They offer self pay and financing options.

First offers long term and short term residential programs that are based in the 12 Step philosophy to provide individuals with a safe and structured environment. In this supportive setting, individuals receive 24/7 care, therapeutic interventions, counseling, and support to address their substance use addictions.

First emphasizes the development of essential life skills to support individuals in their journey toward independent living and sustainable recovery. Participants in the long term program are assigned to a vocational partner for career coaching. During the evening, clients receive education and training in areas such as communication skills, stress management, coping strategies, motivational interviewing, and relapse prevention. The program lasts for 12 months.

Services also include trauma care where counselors address co-occurring impacts due to past traumas. They also provide family therapy sessions and support to strengthen relationships, improve communication, and promote healing within the family unit. These sessions help women and their children rebuild trust and develop healthy patterns of interaction.

Clients who complete they program may be eligible for transitional housing for up to 1 year. Clients perform chores, find employment, and develop healthy daily living routines before they reintegrate with their communities.

The short-term program is reserved for justice involved clients or for clients who cannot afford the long term program. In the short term program, clients remain with their vocational coaches throughout the program. Clients attend 12 Step meetings, perform chores, and participate in all group activities. The program lasts 30 days.

A specialized program for veterans lasts for 24 months and is a collaboration with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Clients receive case management and treatment for substance use disorder.

Latest Reviews

jeffery holsclaw
1 month ago on Google
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It's a work camp. They make you work and pocket all your income. I'm as serious about this. In no way do you get to improve yourself. And if they tell you you would work on staff after awhile. You do that as a volunteer. It's the inmates in charge of the asylum. If the state actually knew the interworkings of FAB a lot of people would pay penalties or serve time.
brandon little
2 months ago on Google
1
This place sucks.. it not even a rehab it s a work camp.. you work a full time job and never get a penny.
Justin
2 months ago on Google
1

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First at Blue Ridge works with several private insurance providers and also accepts private payments when possible, Please contact to verify your specific insurance provider.

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Other Forms of Payment

Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.

Sliding scale payments are based on a client's income and family size. The goal is to make treatment affordable to everyone. By taking these factors into account, addiction recovery care providers help ensure that your treatment does not become a financial burden to you or your family, eliminating one barrier to care.

Military members, veterans, and eligible dependents have access to specific insurance programs that help them get the care they need. TRICARE and VA insurance can help you access low cost or no cost addiction and mental health treatment. Programs that accept military insurance often have targeted treatment focused on the unique challenges military members, veterans, and their families face.

Addiction Treatments

Levels of Care

inpatient iconInpatient
Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements.
sober-living iconSober Living Homes
Sober Living Houses (SLHs), aka sober homes or halfway houses, are safe, substance-free, supportive living facilities for those recovering from substance abuse. Ideal for those who've just been through inpatient or outpatient treatment, SLHs are supervised environments with rules that support sobriety, such as curfews, shared chores, and therapeutic meetings. Residents are also often trained on life skills and coping skills to make it easier to transition into society. SLHs also provide a strong sense of community that can lead to the kind of deep and lasting connections with other sober individuals that supports a new, healthy lifestyle.
12-step icon12-Step
12-step programs are addiction recovery models based on Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). A number of substance abuse programs (including some drug and alcohol rehab centers) use the 12 steps as a basis for treatment. Beginning steps involve admitting powerlessness over the addiction and creating a spiritual basis for recovery. Middle steps including making direct amends to those who've been hurt by the addiction, and the final step is to assist others in addiction recovery in the same way. 12-Step offshoots including Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Cocaine Anonymous (CA), Dual Recovery Anonymous (DRA), Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) and Gamblers Anonymous (GA).
aftercare iconAftercare Support
Completing a drug or alcohol rehab program shouldn't spell the end of substance abuse treatment. Aftercare involves making a sustainable plan for recovery, including ongoing support. This can include sober living arrangements like halfway houses, career counseling, and setting a patient up with community programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA).

Treatments

The goal of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. Those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders tend to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning. Recovery and Maintenance are usually based on 12 step programs and AA meetings.

There are many types of drug rehab in North Carolina. To receive treatment for addiction, you can choose from many inpatient and outpatient programs. Often, participants start with detox and work through a full continuum of care that continues with ongoing support for long-term recovery.

A combined mental health and substance abuse rehab has the staff and resources available to handle individuals with both mental health and substance abuse issues. It can be challenging to determine where a specific symptom stems from (a mental health issue or an issue related to substance abuse), so mental health and substance abuse professionals are helpful in detangling symptoms and keeping treatment on track.

Opioid rehabs specialize in supporting those recovering from opioid addiction. They treat those suffering from addiction to illegal opioids like heroin, as well as prescription drugs like oxycodone. These centers typically combine both physical as well as mental and emotional support to help stop addiction. Physical support often includes medical detox and subsequent medical support (including medication), and mental support includes in-depth therapy to address the underlying causes of addiction.

Programs

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Adult Program
Adult rehab programs include therapies tailored to each client's specific needs, goals, and recovery progress. They are tailored to the specific challenges adult clients may face, including family and work pressures and commitments. From inpatient and residential treatment to various levels of outpatient services, there are many options available. Some facilities also help adults work through co-occurring conditions, like anxiety, that can accompany addiction.
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Program For Men
Men face specific challenges and concerns when seeking addiction treatment. Gender-specific recovery programs help them tackle these issues head-on in an environment that's focused, targeted, and distraction-free. It also gives them the opportunity to connect with and learn from other men who have been through a similar journey and can offer support for the next step.
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Program For Women
Rehabs for women provide a safe, nurturing space for female clients to heal. These treatment programs consider the specific obstacles that women can face during recovery and place a special emphasis on mental, social, physical, and reproductive health. They explore how each woman's experience has shaped the trajectory of their substance use, addressing issues such as sexual abuse and past trauma.
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Young Adult Program
Young adulthood can be an exciting, yet difficult, time of transition. Individuals in their late teens to mid-20s face unique stressors related to school, jobs, families, and social circles, which can lead to a rise in substance use. Rehab centers with dedicated young adult programs will include activities and amenities that cater to this age group, with an emphasis on specialized counseling, peer socialization, and ongoing aftercare.
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Teen Program
Teen programs are designed to address the unique pressures teens face, pressures that can drive them to experiment with dangerous, addictive substances. They need programs that meet them exactly where they are and give them tools for long-term recovery. Therapy can help teenagers understand and work through underlying issues so they can reclaim the life ahead of them.

Clinical Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse.

Whether a marriage or other committed relationship, an intimate partnership is one of the most important aspects of a person's life. Drug and alcohol addiction affects both members of a couple in deep and meaningful ways, as does rehab and recovery. Couples therapy and other couples-focused treatment programs are significant parts of exploring triggers of addiction, as well as learning how to build healthy patterns to support ongoing sobriety.

Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues. Family dynamics often play a critical role in addiction triggers, and if properly educated, family members can be a strong source of support when it comes to rehabilitation.

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.

Life skills trainings involve all the skills a person must have in order to function successfully in the world. These include time management, career guidance, money management, and effective communication. Truly successful addiction recovery is based on the ability to not only live substance-free, but to thrive. Life skills teaches the practical necessities of functioning in society, which sets clients up for success in life, and therefore sobriety.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a clinical approach to helping people with substance abuse issues and other conditions shift behavior in positive ways. It is more goal-oriented than traditional psychotherapy, as MI counselors directly attempt to get clients to consider making behavioral change (rather than wait for them to come to conclusions themselves). Its primary purpose is to resolve ambivalence and help clients become able to make healthy choices freely.

Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.

Accreditations

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Established in 1992 by congress, SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on American's communities.

SAMHSA Listed: Yes

State Licenses are permits issued by government agencies that allow rehab organizations to conduct business legally within a certain geographical area. Typically, the kind of program a rehab facility offers, along with its physical location, determines which licenses are required to operate legally.

State License: North Carolina

Contact Information

Phone icon (828) 669-0011
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32 Knox Road
Ridgecrest, NC 28770

Fact checked and written by:
Peter Lee, PhD
Edited by:
Kerry Nenn, BSW

Reviews of First at Blue Ridge

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Total scam. Don't go there unless you want to be belittled by staff and work 50-60 hours for free the entire year. I worked as a house manager there and I physically saw drug test sheets from staff who failed for drugs.

Reviewed on 11/16/2018
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Place is run down. The staff don't provide any relevant treatment and just let things run along. The only clients who manage to recover are the one that are putting in a lot of work but not thanks to this place.

Reviewed on 9/7/2018
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3.3 (12 reviews)
jeffery holsclaw
1 month ago
1

It's a work camp. They make you work and pocket all your income. I'm as serious about this. In no way do you get to improve yourself. And if they tell you you would work on staff after awhile. You do that as a volunteer. It's the inmates in charge of the asylum. If the state actually knew the interworkings of FAB a lot of people would pay penalties or serve time.

brandon little
2 months ago
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This place sucks.. it not even a rehab it s a work camp.. you work a full time job and never get a penny.

Justin
2 months ago
1

Anne Price
3 months ago
5

Christine Barnard
3 months ago
5

Collin Burgess
4 months ago
5

This placed gave me the year I needed to re-focus and find myself again. This place saved my life and gave me the opportunity to be live a prosperous, healthy, happy and meaningful life. Thank you FIRST for everything you have done and continue to do.

Dana Johnson
5 months ago
5

FIRST@Blue Ridge provided me with a safe structured environment and the tools I needed to change my life. They helped me go on to get my peer support certification as well as my alcohol and drug counseling certification so that I could continue to be of service and help others. I am 6 years clean and sober, have an amazing job helping others in recovery, have a wonderful relationship with my family and friends again, and I owe it all to GOD and First @Blue Ridge.

Ashlyn Alcon
5 months ago
5

First @ Blue Ridge is an amazing place. It helped saved my life. I came here in 2022 and graduated the long term program in 2023. After graduating the program I ended up becoming staff. The staff while I was client were amazing. They love you until you learn to love yourself, as well as the friendships you make. It is truly a sisterhood and an unspeakable bond that First gives you. It is an amazing program and one I will forever be thankful for and one I will recommend to anyone who wants to better their life.

Kylie Rozzelle
5 months ago
5

First @ Blue Ridge saved and changed my life! All my house managers loved me til I was able to love myself again. I was a peer leader and an auxiliary house manager during my time as a client. I graduated Feb 15, 2024 and I couldn t have done it without all the love and support from all the staff as well as the ladies that were on my journey with me! Some of those bonds I ll cherish forever. It s really a great program, it works if you work it!

Samantha Lee
5 months ago
5

This place saved my life, since graduating the year program I have a great job. A amazing network, and I m close with my family again . The house managers have became like family to me and I ve met some of my best friends and supporters!! The program works if you give it a chance!

Mary Cheek Fallin
6 months ago
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This is not a legit rehab was told they help people with mental health issues when I arrived was ganged up by 3 residents that has been there over year telling me I couldn't have any contact with my husband or kids for 60 days or more. Just to say i didn't stay.

Joe
10 months ago
1

This facility is a major blight in this neighborhood, with numerous disturbances coming from the residents and employees. The management of First at Blue Ridge has a long history of being unprofessional, sweeping the problems that this place causes under the rug. If you are looking for treatment, look elsewhere.

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