LGBTQ-Friendly Drug Rehab Centers in Maine
The inclusive LGBTQ Friendly Drug Rehab Centers in Maine offer specialized drug and alcohol programs for gay, lesbian, non-binary, and transgender people. These programs are formatted to address the complex issues that are synonymous with LGBTQIA communities. Addiction problems have affected the LGBTQIA+ community for far too long. Conventional drug rehab programs often struggle to serve the gay, bisexual, transgender, lesbian, queer/questioning community. With drug and alcohol addiction rates almost twice the addiction rate of heterosexual people, the need for specialized drug rehabs for gay and lesbian persons has doubled over the last decade. This can be attributed in part to social acceptance and constraints in the environment IE: family rejection, desire to be accepted, needing validation from the LGBTQ communities; who use drugs or alcohol, and social environments mainly in bars or clubs where drugs are present. Locating a rehab for addiction to drugs or alcohol can be tough. Finding an inclusive and specialized drug rehab that understands the underlying issues that affect LGBTQ people has led to more drug rehab centers offering specialized treatment and housing programs for LGBTQ clients in Maine.Please contact us by phone for immediate assistance. This is a necessary step in beginning the recovery process for yourself or a loved one. Our addiction treatment specialists and staff have over 25 years of experience in helping people find effective and affordable treatment for all addictions. What you tell us is completely confidential. We are HIPAA compliant. We are here to answer your questions and to get you (or a loved one) into treatment today. For immediate intake, call us now.
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LGBTQ Friendly Drug Rehab Centers are inclusive treatment centers for gay, lesbian, non-binary, and transgender people and all members of the LGBT Community.
What You Will Learn:
Why is there a need for specialized treatment for the LGBTQ community?
Why Choose a Gay-Friendly Drug Rehab?
LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Outpatient Therapy in Maine
Free Drug Rehabs in Maine that Accept LGBTQ Clients
How We Can Help
LGBTQ-specific Support Groups and Therapy Meetings in Maine
Why is there a need for specialized treatment for the LGBTQ community?
Entering into treatment for addiction can make a person feel very vulnerable. Attending a gay-friendly or LGBTQ-friendly inpatient drug rehabilitation center in Maine will give you an atmosphere of honesty and mutual respect. This will help you be open about every aspect of your identity. Having to hide your sexual orientation can impede an individual’s progress in an inpatient drug rehab center. Recovering in a setting that reinforces your self-respect, will help you be proud of who you are, reinforcing who you can become.Most programs will say they offer an LGBTQ program but in reality, there are actually very few specific drug rehab centers that are LGBT and gay-friendly in Maine. Transgender people have an especially hard time finding non-biased discrimination-free treatment for their addictions. It can be harder for an LGBTQ person to overcome addiction in a setting that is not specifically set up for handling these unique challenges. It is better to enroll in an inclusive gay-friendly drug rehab center in Maine to ensure that your needs are handled properly. This will ensure a positive outcome in treatment.
Why Choose a Gay-Friendly Drug Rehab?
Most treatment providers will offer a long-term program of at least 90 days to ensure that all issues are handled before leaving the treatment facility for drug addiction. People who are suffering from the grips of addiction have a better chance for long-lasting recovery in a setting that is longer than the average 28-day program for addiction. Recovery experts have long stated that the length of the program has without a doubt, a significant effect on the recovery rate of the clients.
LGBT-inclusive drug and alcohol treatment centers will often have separate housing for gay and LGBT individuals. Residential treatment programs are taxed with another particular challenge in offering housing to a person’s self-identified gender. Conventional treatment centers may force the individual to room with and as their birth gender. Forcing a transgender client to co-habitat with their birth gender can put an individual in the same situation that may have led to drug or alcohol abuse in the first place. For transgender clients, it is very important to make sure that they are given respect and a unified understanding of their identity. This will lay the groundwork for their paths to recovery. There will be separate groups that deal with the specific concerns that only LGBTQ individuals seeking help from drugs and alcohol deal with. Individual therapists who are gay, lesbian, or transgender themselves will have specialized treatment programs that include specific topics that are synonymous with the Gay and LGBTQIA+ community which include some of the topics listed below.
All of these issues and more should be handled while in treatment.
*Discrimination handling, public discrimination
*Coming out, Peer ridicule, exclusion from social groups
*Family counseling, job loss, loss of child custody, rejection by a spiritual community
*Acceptance of self
*Violence based on sexual orientation or gender identification and how to cope
Separate group therapy sessions with only LGBTQ peers and counselors allow people to open up in a safe and non-judgmental environment. Specialized group therapy with people who share similar life experiences and challenges will help LGBTQ individuals feel they can be fully involved in the group’s healing process. Being able to fully engage in group therapy will help the individual feel comfortable about sharing their life experiences and tragedies.
Family and spousal therapy sessions have another dynamic that LGBTQIA+ inclusive drug rehabilitation centers in Maine are ready to handle. Addressing the complex relationships that accompany the LGBTQ community can be challenging for a conventional drug and alcohol treatment center to understand, let alone help handle. Traditional marriage counseling and family therapy usually do not work for the gay, lesbian, and transgender community. The program will not assume that you are heterosexual and will encourage you to identify with your chosen gender if you are transgender. The materials will have same-sex couples and gender-neutral checkboxes for marital status. You will be able to discuss your relationship issues and issues related to your own sexuality using the principles of gay affirmative practice. LGBTQ-friendly drug rehabs in Maine will encourage you to fully open up about your sexual orientation (if you are ready) and relationship dynamics. Being able, to be honest, and open in a non-judgmental setting will allow you to feel comfortable and at ease while you are in treatment for addiction issues. This helps the counselors understand your unique situation, relationship dynamics, habits, and pitfalls and will also help them in handling the underlying issues that need to be taken care of while enrolled in a Gay-Friendly inpatient treatment center for LGBTQ people in Maine.
Addiction rates for the LGBTQ community according to the most recent study conducted in 2016, have included sexual orientation, and sexual identity in their survey of adults. This most recent data collection has found that almost a third of the LGBTQ population (30%) is addicted to drugs or alcohol. This is among the highest number of affected people in the nation. Heterosexuals are around 10% addicted rates as of 2016.
LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Outpatient Therapy in Maine
Therapy and outpatient treatment for addictions is the right solution for some people suffering from addiction to drugs or alcohol. Therapists that specialize in treating LGBT and gay clients can offer many services to LGBTQ communities. Working with an outpatient program or a private therapist is often the only option for specialized treatment options in certain areas throughout the state.Free Drug Rehabs in Maine that Accept LGBTQ Clients
Most free rehab programs that offer treatment programs for addiction in Maine will service gay, lesbian, and transgender clients. The programs that they offer, will in most cases be the same program that the general population uses in their recovery. Due to funding constraints in Maine, delivering a separate program is often not cost-effective for the center.
How We Can Help
Our addiction specialists are here for those seeking treatment for their addictions to drugs or alcohol in gay-friendly drug rehab. There are programs throughout the United States that offer treatment and counseling for those seeking help in their early recovery from drugs and alcohol. We can help you locate treatment for addiction in your area or anywhere in the country. It is sometimes beneficial for the client to go to treatment further away from home. Getting away from temptations and friends who may still be using is often better for many people. Clients who go to rehab in another state also have a harder time leaving treatment early as well. Depending on the situation, our counselors may suggest looking for substance abuse programs that are a plane flight away. To locate LGBTQIA+ inclusive AA meetings, group meetings, 12-step programs, inpatient treatment, or outpatient services, give us a call now. There are many options for inclusive drug rehab services in many cities in Maine and throughout the country.1-800-513-5423
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LGBTQ-specific Support Groups and Therapy Meetings in Maine
Below we have listed some of the group meetings that are gay and LGBTQ friendly. We offer this list to help those who are looking for free, gay-friendly groups for their addiction and have nowhere to turn for help. Addiction No More offers these groups as a free service to the ongoing aftercare that is much needed in the LGBTQ community. This is not a complete list of LGBT and non-binary support groups in Maine and is subject to change as new meetings start and old ones fade away. Please give us a call or email us to have your meeting put on the list of resources for transgender individuals looking for support and addiction help. For help finding the right LGBTQ-friendly drug rehabilitation center in Maine, call us now. Addiction No More is an Addiction Treatment Center locator service. For immediate service, please call one of our counselors 24/7.1-800-513-5423
LGBTQ Sundays in Portland, Maine
This is an open meeting every Sunday at 6:30 pm for open discussion and sharing in a caring non-judgmental setting.
The meeting is held at the Dana Center on the 2nd floor
Maine Medical center
22 Bramhall St
Portland Maine 04102
People like us- Group for LGBTQIA persons in Ellsworth Maine
This is an open discussion group In Ellsworth, Maine every Friday at 6:30 pm
This is an LGBTQ-specific group for addiction and coping skills for everyday pitfalls that lead to relapse.
Unitarian Universalist Church
121 Bucksport Rd Ste 1
Ellsworth Maine 04605
Wells Step meeting for LGBTQ and non-binary people looking for an addiction aftercare program.
Wells Step Meeting Open group step meeting
This meeting is held at St. Mary’s church Every Monday at 7:30 pm
St. Mary’s church
236 Wells Maine 04090
Maine Support meetings for transgender people or those who identify as non-binary.
Trans Only Support Groups
Bangor Maine trans-only support group is a peer-based support group for those who identify as trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming identities. This is a specific trans support group and is a closed meeting for the safety of the individuals in the group.
This is a once-a-month group held on the 1st Monday of every month from 6:00-7:30 pm
For information on this specific group, please contact their email mtn@mainetransnet.org for meeting location. This is a transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming meeting in Bangor, Maine.
Brunswick Maine trans-only meeting and support group
This meeting is held on the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month from 6:00-7:30 pm
This group meets in the Garage at 24 College Street at the Bowdoin College campus. The Peer-to-Peer Support group is an open group for transgender and gender non-conforming identified persons. Make sure to use the side entrance to the building when entering for the meeting.
For more info on this group please contact Alex alex@awholenotherstory.com
Bowdoin College Campus
24 college street
Brunswick Maine 04011
Lewiston, Maine Transgender only support group
This is a closed support group for transgender non-binary and gender non-conforming persons at any stage of the transformation.
This group meets at The Center for Wisdom Women in Lewiston, Maine (Look for the sunflower)
Meeting note: There is parking available at the address but they have asked that we park along the fence side of the parking lot.
Please use our contact information for further instructions and a light screening for the safety of the members of the group. Email mtn@mainetransnet.org.
Center for Wisdom’s women
97 Blake st
Lewiston Maine 04240
Portland Transgender Only- Support Group
This is a group that meets once a month in Portland, Maine, for transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people looking for addiction support or general peer-to-peer support for life’s pitfalls. We welcome everyone at any stage of the transition to these meetings.
1st Wednesday of every month from 6:00-7:30 pm
This Group is held at the Charles A. Dana Health Education Center
Maine Medical Center Campus
22 Bramhall St
Portland Maine 04012
Waterville Maine Trans Only support group
This is a trans-only meeting. It is also open to is open to Non-binary and Gender Non-conforming identities.
The meetings and group meetings are located at the United Methodist Church on the corner of Pleasant and Gilman St. The parking lot is next to the church.
61 Pleasant St
Waterville Maine
Please direct questions and schedule a screening interview. Contact mtn@mainetransnet.org.
Sources
LGBT Specific Mental Health and Rehabs
LGBTQIA+ People and Substance Use
LGBT+ Behavioral Health
Transgender Healthcare
Erik Epp – Content Author
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Service Type
LGBTQ Friendly Drug Rehab Centers in Maine
Area
Drug Rehab Centers in Maine that are inclusive to gay, trans and LGBT clients
Description
Specialized drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in the state of Maine that take LGBTQIA+, transgender, non binary, lesbian and gay clients.
