Addiction Treatment Strategies

Addiction Treatment Strategies (ATS) is an addiction treatment provider located at 95 N. Research Dr, Edwardsville, IL 62025. The practice offers a six-month intensive outpatient medical detoxification, stabilization, and addiction treatment program. ATS describes itself as a scientific, therapeutically based, and medically assisted program, and states that medications are used to treat underlying problems and to create the stability needed for patients to begin making changes through cognitive behavioral therapy.

ATS positions itself as a professional alternative to AA self-help groups. Its program combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) groups, individual therapy, and family/support education. The practice states it has developed its own approach to CBT rather than using the term generically, and teaches conceptual and contextual learning strategies that support the ATS model. ATS uses what it calls the constructs of Structure-Organization-Discipline behavioral interventions to monitor changes in Sleep-Exercise-Diet as key clinical indicators of overall improvement in lifestyle changes.

The stated components of the treatment approach are: medical intervention and assistance, including medical detoxification to begin and sustain intervention; individual therapy to address underlying problems that accompany addiction; group psycho-educational sessions to teach and inform patients about the physical nature of their addiction; group psychotherapy to build skills in a safe environment; and a weekly family orientation and support group to encourage family participation in addiction management.

The program describes its philosophy as educating, mentoring, and reinforcing strategies intended to assist in rewiring the brain and retraining the mind for addiction management, giving patients tools, showing them how to use those tools, and evaluating their progress. The site describes the approach as practical and functional. John P. Crum, LCPC, is listed as Program Director. The practice can be reached at (618) 692-6880 or jpcrum@addictionts.org.