Kristina Alpatova, psychologist-consultant at the Rehabilitation and Psychological Support Center “Creek”. independent position
Residents of the Pskov region suffering from alcohol and drug addiction, can receive free help at the rehabilitation center in the village of Rodovoe, Palkinsky district. According to a correspondent of the Pskov Information Agency, the center has been operating for about a month, now 10 people are receiving support there.
Igor Gerasimov, General Director of the network of rehabilitation centers "Ruchey", said that at the Church of the Feodorovskaya Icon Mother of God in St. Petersburg there is a sobriety society "Lazareva Saturday". The idea of creating special centers belongs to the inspirers of the society. "The uniqueness of the Center is that alcoholics and drug addicts themselves work here as consultants. I'm not talking about the former, because from the point of view of the concept that we profess, former alcoholics and there are no drug addicts," said Igor Gerasimov.
According to him, the success of rehabilitation is due to the fact that the center has four areas of recovery - biological, psychological, social and spiritual. "Individually, various therapies are provided by many wonderful doctors, centers, but so that everything is collected in one place, in sufficient volume and in desired quality There are few such places in the country," Igor Gerasimov noted.
Spiritual program coordinator of the Center, Orthodox priest Alexander drew attention to the fact that in the church there are all kinds of models of rehabilitation, when a person leaves society for a monastery and lives there as a laborer, worker or novice. “There are many rehabilitation centers at churches and monasteries on this base, which give children the opportunity to come to sobriety through God. However, in my opinion, these rehabilitations have a minus in that a person really becomes sober only in this microsociety. they come to their friends, to their families, most of them break down to work," Father Alexander added.
According to him, the synthesis of a bio-, psycho-, socio-spiritual model is the brainchild of many years. The center treats the body - with the help of droppers and recovery procedures. "Psycho" means a twelve-step program adapted to Russia, social adaptation occurs when the children learn to communicate with their parents again, to get a job again. Spirituality is replenished through the Russian Orthodox Church, a person learns to find contact with God.
"The symbiosis of bio, psycho, socio-spiritual rehabilitation and got the name" Creek ". We are distributing this experience throughout the North-West, now also on the Pskov land dependent people can receive an extended spectrum of recovery. "Stream" is one of the projects. Already now in Pskov we are agreeing to open an office for consultations and work with relatives of addicts," the priest said.
Now the organizers and organizers are putting in order the area around the center in Rodovoe, the building of the former noble estate of 1879 is being renovated, the heating system and rooms for two to four people are being prepared for work. The journalists were told that during three years the building was empty, and before that there was a summer cottage of the Pechora boarding school. Igor Gerasimov noted that this option was offered to them by the regional administration.
The organizers of the rehabilitation center in Palkinsky district it is expected that in the near future the center will be able to accommodate up to 50-60 people. Minimum exchange rate treatment - from 28 days to 3 months. After that, two months of social adaptation are provided for patients - the so-called " ambulatory treatment"Treatment in the center is free. Both men and women are taken for rehabilitation. Patients from the Karelian branch now live in the center. They were transferred here so that the Pskov residents who come to Rodovoye can get into the well-established rehabilitation process.
The day of the patients of the center is divided into two parts. The pre-lunch half is devoted to information about the disease and methods of dealing with it, because, according to the organizers, a person often comes to them "with a bunch of myths and with his own idea of \u200b\u200bthe disease." The second half of the day is devoted to occupational therapy and lectures on Orthodoxy. In the rules of the "Stream" - a prayer every morning and evening.
The history of one of former patients Center "Creek":
I started using drugs at the age of 12. Used them until last year. He was in several rehab centers, was in prison and could only stay sober in closed spaces where there was no drugs or alcohol.
I used everything that was possible - all hard drugs. A year ago I learned about this center and ended up here. I was lying in the center, where I could do whatever I wanted, in the other center, on the contrary, it was tough. Here is something in between that suits me. In addition, here I met God. I was baptized, but I did not believe in God, but here I found faith. It helps to stay sober. Now I work, I have a girlfriend, I really live. Nine months ago I quit smoking, although I have been smoking all my life.
