Iquolioc
(910) 355-2000
www.iquolioc.org
675 Bell Fork Road
Jacksonville NC 28540

Celebrity Services

Mental health services
Services Provided: Substance abuse treatment
Type of Care: Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups: Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Criminal justice clients

Celebrity

Recognize celebrities in society and culture as being beyond the individual. A celebrity is someone who gets media attention and shows an extroverted personality. There is a wide range of ways by which people may become celebrities: from their profession, appearances in the mass media, or even by complete accident or infamy. Instant celebrity is the term that is when someone becomes a celebrity in a very short time. In some places, someone that somehow achieves a small amount of transient fame, through hype or mass media, is a B-grade celebrity. Often the stereotype extends to someone that falls short of mainstream or persistent fame but seeks to extend or exploit it. The insatiable public fascination for celebrities and demand for celebrity gossip has seen the rise of the gossip columnist, tabloid, paparazzi, and celebrity blogging.

Services to Fit Criminal Needs

Tailoring services to fit the needs of the individual is an important part of effective drug abuse treatment for criminal justice populations. Individuals differ in terms of age, gender, ethnicity and culture, problem severity, recovery stage and level of supervision needed. Individuals also respond differently to different treatment approaches and treatment providers. In general, drug treatment should address issues of motivation, problem solving and skill-building for resisting drug use and criminal behavior. Lessons aimed at supplanting drug use and criminal activities with constructive activities and at understanding the consequences of behavior are important. Treatment interventions can facilitate the development of healthy interpersonal relationships and improve the ability of the participant to interact with family, peers and others in the community.

Monitoring Treatment of Criminal Drug Abusers

Specialists should carefully monitor drug abuser during treatment. Individuals trying to recover from drug addiction may experience a relapse or return to drug use. Triggers for drug relapse vary. Common triggers are mental stress and associations with peers and social situations linked to drug use. An undetected relapse can progress to serious drug abuse, but detected drug use can present opportunities for therapeutic intervention. Monitoring drug use through urinalysis or other objective methods, as part of treatment or criminal justice supervision, provides a basis for assessing and providing feedback on the treatment progress. It also provides opportunities for specialists to intervene to address unconstructive behavior. Specialists can determine rewards and sanctions to facilitate change and modify treatment plans according to progress.