For Jewish patients struggling with addiction, finding a treatment center that respects their faith can be a challenge.
That’s where Kosher addiction treatment comes in, providing an approach that combines recovery with religious practices, like daily prayers and kosher meals.
This faith-based system allows patients to heal without compromising their faith or ditching their religious routines.
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How Is Kosher Addiction Treatment Different From Other Treatments?
Like any substance abuse treatment, kosher addiction treatment helps people suffering from substance abuse, alcohol addiction, and mental health disorders. However, it takes a different approach because it’s a faith-backed method.
Kosher addiction treatment involves serving kosher food, dedicating time to daily prayers, and incorporating religious guidance into the treatment plan. That doesn’t typically happen in conventional treatment centers, which is why Jewish patients often look for kosher recovery centers.
Kosher rehab centers also observe and celebrate Jewish customs, which doesn’t happen anywhere else. For example, they accommodate Shabbat, which prohibits a lot of things from Friday sunset to Saturday evening. During these hours, Jews aren’t allowed to handle money, drive, or use electronics—or many other things.
Aside from Shabbat, kosher addiction treatment centers will celebrate Jewish holidays, including Passover and Yom Kippur.
Incorporating religious beliefs into the recovery process helps provide patients with a sense of community. It helps them communicate with patients from similar backgrounds and maintain their religious practices, which makes transitioning back into their daily lives easier.
Benefits of Kosher Addiction Treatment
Kosher addiction treatment doesn’t only focus on drug rehab, but it also emphasizes the religious background of patients. It provides facilities for Jewish holidays and daily prayers, and it involves serving kosher food.
Here are the benefits of applying for kosher addiction treatment:
A Safe Environment
People going through addiction recovery often find it hard to stay anywhere without getting judged, and having a religious background makes it even harder. Jewish patients may feel uncomfortable in a traditional treatment center where they’re the only ones doing prayers and following the Jewish faith.
A kosher treatment center provides a safe environment for these patients, enabling them to practice their religious beliefs without feeling judged or uncomfortable. It also provides a safe haven for patients having trouble with their family members.
A Jewish Community
Addiction patients with a religious background often have it harder than others—whether they’re suffering from substance use, alcohol addiction, or related problems, they’ll feel disconnected from their community due to stigma and social standards.
A kosher treatment center creates a community for Jewish patients, where they can practice their religious customs and get treated without feeling judged.
In the treatment center, they’ll be surrounded by supportive staff and patients from similar backgrounds, which makes it easier to fit in and feel like a part of something. They can also benefit from group therapy, where they can witness the recovery journey of other patients firsthand.
Kosher Food
One of the most challenging aspects of seeking treatment for Jewish patients is food. The Jewish dietary laws are restrictive and intricate, so Jewish patients often struggle to find suitable food in treatment centers.
They’ll often be served treif, which is the food they can’t eat. Treif includes shellfish, pork, and meat from forbidden animals, like squirrels and horses.
The Jewish also can’t eat meat unless it’s from an animal that’s been slaughtered in the correct way with its blood drained. Animals that die naturally are off the table.
Some simple meals are forbidden as well, like a cheeseburger, because Jews can’t eat meat and dairy together. On top of that, they can’t eat birds of prey, or in other words, birds that feed on other animals.
While it’s hard to find a treatment center that considers these rules when serving food, kosher-friendly centers will serve kosher food. That way, patients don’t have to choose between their faith and recovery.
A Faith Background
Patients with a religious background may feel uncomfortable in treatment centers. If they’re the only ones practicing daily prayers and requesting religious guidance, they may not be able to stay committed, which could be detrimental to the recovery journey.
Sticking to their routines and getting guidance from religious leaders will give them a sense of stability, which they badly need while recovering from addiction. That’s where kosher addiction treatment comes in.
In kosher-friendly centers, Jewish patients will find the support they need to stay committed to their religious practices, and they’ll feel more comfortable among other patients from the same background.
Types of Kosher Addiction Treatment Programs
According to each patient’s severity of addiction, we can recommend inpatient programs, outpatient programs, or 12-step plans. Here’s an overview of the treatment options available at our facilities.
Inpatient Programs
Inpatient programs provide patients with 24/7 medical and emotional support, and they reside in the center until they’re fully recovered.
These programs are more costly than others, but they’re sometimes necessary in severe substance abuse cases. Besides, insurance may cover the treatment period. If you’re seeking treatment for yourself or a loved one, you can verify your insurance here.
Outpatient Treatment
For patients who can handle less restrictive programs, we may recommend outpatient treatment. In this case, patients will stay home during recovery and get the help they need by visiting the center every specified amount of time.
These programs are often only offered to patients suffering from less severe addiction. They’re also sometimes used as transition periods for patients after they’re done with inpatient programs.
The good news is that outpatient programs are more affordable than inpatient ones.
Partial Hospitalization Program
Partial hospitalization is suitable for patients who need intensive care but can’t stay in the center for the entire recovery journey. In these programs, patients will stay in the center for around 20 hours a week and spend the rest at home.
They’ll be under supervision even when they’re staying home, and they’ll receive all the medications they need.
12-Step Program
12-step addiction programs are a popular treatment approach created by Alcoholics Anonymous. They’re often used for alcohol addiction, substance use, and even gambling.
These programs are free, making them accessible to patients who can’t afford inpatient programs. Besides, they emphasize group sessions, where patients can find others they can relate to.
What to Expect From Kosher Addiction Treatment
Recreate Life Counseling is a part of the Recreate Behavioral Health Network in Florida, so you can expect the same support and quality of services across all our centers.
Here’s what to expect from kosher addiction treatment at Recreate Life Counseling:
Customized Healthcare Programs
Because every patient’s experience with substance abuse is different, there’s no one-size-fits-all treatment plan. That’s why our programs consider the individual needs of patients, including religious obligations and mental health concerns.
To accommodate the requirements of our patients, we offer holistic treatment approaches that may include mindfulness practices, therapeutic movement exercises, and nutritional counseling. We also offer aftercare and support groups that may help patients after full recovery.
Daily Religious Support
What makes kosher addiction treatment different is the religious support it provides. At our centers, patients will be able to practice their daily prayers and attend Torah study sessions whenever they need to.
They’ll also get guidance from Jewish religious leaders or rabbis, and they’ll get to observe Jewish rituals, including Shabbat.
These religious practices will provide patients with the comfort they desperately need, and they’ll help offer a sense of familiarity inside the treatment center.
Supportive Medical Staff
At all our centers, we have trained and supportive medical staff of doctors, counselors, and therapists. They understand the physical aspects of addiction and are trained to deal with all patients, no matter how severe their cases are.
On top of that, our staff are familiar with Jewish customs and laws, so our patients get their treatment in a way that aligns with their faith and principles.
Observing Jewish Customs
Our treatment centers help Jewish patients by offering everything they need in their daily lives, including kosher meals and places to pray. However, our support doesn’t end here; we also enable patients to celebrate Jewish holidays and observe Shabbat, which typically lasts for a full day.
Observing Jewish customs and celebrating holidays gives our patients a sense of familiarity and makes them feel at home. It also helps ease them back into their normal lives after recovery, since they don’t change their religious routines.
Final Words
Jewish patients often struggle to fit in treatment centers because they can’t practice their faith freely. They’ll find it harder to practice their daily prayers or observe their rituals, and they’ll struggle even more to find kosher food.
That’s why kosher addiction treatment is essential—it helps Jewish patients get treatment without compromising their faith. On top of that, it puts them in a place where it’s easy to feel like they belong.
Not to mention, kosher-friendly treatment centers will often help patients post-rehab by recommending Jewish support groups.
If you’re ready to take the leap or want to help a loved one, reach out and get an idea of what we offer.
