Benefits of 12-Step Recovery Treatment for Addiction in Joliet, IL

What is the 12-Step Recovery Treatment?

Recovery is a lifelong process. Our 12-step program for drug addiction in Joliet, Illinois, can help you as you begin your journey. This counselor-delivered, evidence-based curriculum has been proven to effectively reduce subsequent substance use.

Part of our 12-step recovery treatment at Gateway Joliet involves meetings both on-site and in the community. Our program will also provide guidance on how you can incorporate a group into your personal recovery plan. The steps include:

1. Admitting your lack of power over addiction.
2. Believing a higher power can help.
3. Turning over control to the higher power.
4. Making a personal inventory.
5. Admitting your wrongs.
6. Allowing the higher power to correct your shortcomings.
7. Requesting that the higher power remove these shortcomings.
8. Making a list of how you have wronged others and preparing to make amends.
9. Reaching out to those you have hurt, unless this would harm the person.
10. Taking a personal inventory and admitting your wrongs.
11. Seeking connection and enlightenment from the higher power via meditation and prayer.
12. Bringing the message of the program to those in need.