Inpatient Addiction Treatment Program at Foundry Front Range, Colorado
Our inpatient treatment program for addiction provides a safe, supportive, and therapeutic environment and comprehensive care. Also known as residential treatment, inpatient treatment offers numerous benefits that can make treatment more effective and reduce the need for future inpatient episodes.
Foundry Front Range offers inpatient treatment in a modern, beautiful facility where clients live comfortably while engaging in comprehensive treatment surrounded by skilled team members and supportive peers.
What is Inpatient Treatment for Addiction?
Inpatient treatment for drug and alcohol addiction is a residential program where a person lives at a treatment facility full-time (typically for 28 to 90 days) while receiving round-the-clock medical supervision and therapeutic support. It usually includes medical detox, individual and group therapy, and sometimes medication-assisted treatment to manage cravings and withdrawal.
This level of care is best suited for people with severe addiction, unstable home environments, or co-occurring mental health conditions. After completing inpatient treatment, patients are typically stepped down to outpatient programs or sober living arrangements to support long-term recovery.
Benefits of Inpatient Treatment:
Inpatient treatment offers a range of benefits that make it one of the most effective options for those struggling with severe addiction:
- 24/7 medical supervision: Ensures safe detox and immediate response to any health complications.
- Removal from triggers: Being away from people, places, and situations associated with substance use reduces the temptation to relapse.
- Structured environment: A daily routine of therapy, meals, and activities supports stability and focus on recovery.
- Intensive therapy: More frequent and varied therapeutic sessions than outpatient programs.
- Peer support: Living alongside others in recovery builds community and reduces isolation.
- Dual diagnosis treatment: Co-occurring mental health conditions can be addressed simultaneously.
- Higher success rates: The immersive nature of inpatient care generally leads to better short-term outcomes compared to outpatient treatment.
- Family involvement: Many programs offer family therapy to help repair relationships and build a support network.
- Aftercare planning: Discharge includes a structured plan to maintain sobriety after leaving the facility.
A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE VALUE OF INPATIENT TREATMENT
“Over thirty years as a behavioral healthcare specialist, I have found that inpatient treatment, for some patients, can be significantly more effective than outpatient levels of care. When patients can step away from their home environments, they often realize that the places and situations they are used to are enabling their addictive behaviors and problematic substance use. A quality residential program provides the safety and focus to do deeper work and the crucial ability to stay sober for at least a month or longer.
People experiencing substance use disorders really need the time to find their baselines by being completely free of substances and stresses for a significant period before they can determine the underlying causes of their disease, see themselves and their challenges clearly, and learn the skills to feel normal and healthy without the use of alcohol and drugs.”
— Foundry Front Range Chief Clinical Officer Jasmine Aranda
Why Choose Foundry Front Range Inpatient Treatment
How Foundry Front Range stands out.
A Recovery-Supportive Environment
Residential programs are safe, supervised facilities free from substances and designed to promote healing, learning, and wellness. Inpatient recovery programming makes it easier for clients to remain substance-free during treatment and reduces triggers that can lead to relapse. In some cases, a client’s home environment, social group, or workplace can be the source of stress or promote substance misuse. Inpatient treatment programs eliminate these stresses and allow clients to focus exclusively on their recovery.
Connected Detoxification & Residential Treatment
Foundry Front Range offers medically supervised detoxification and residential treatment in one inpatient facility, allowing clients to seamlessly transition from one stage of treatment to the next. Beginning residential treatment immediately after detoxification significantly improves treatment outcomes.
Treatment Team Access & Oversight
Residential treatment programs allow clients and clinicians to interact more regularly and frequently than outpatient treatment programs. More interactions between clients and care team members increase opportunities to identify and meet needs, discover helpful insights, and have meaningful conversations.
Peer Interaction & Support
Residential treatment programs offer clients the opportunity to meet and learn from people with similar life experiences and to establish lasting relationships. People have often formed life-long friendships with people they meet in residential recovery programs. Getting to know others committed to recovery can provide sources of mutual support.
Nutrition and Fitness Support
Substance use disorders often lead to poor nutritional habits, disordered eating, and poor physical health. Residential programs can provide high-quality nutrition and dietary counseling needed to restore physical health and teach clients how to eat more healthily. On-site supervised fitness centers allow clients to rebuild their bodies safely and may be able to identify and treat underlying sources of chronic pain through exercise.
Medical Prescribing and Optimization
When patients who use medications to control the symptoms of mental health disorders, reduce cravings, or manage other medical conditions are under the close supervision of prescribers, they have a better chance to optimize their medication regimen. The ability to meet with psychiatric prescribers and nurses easily and frequently allows a medication plan to be optimized during the treatment stay, improving the benefits of medication while reducing risks before a client leaves the residential care setting.
Facilitated Family Involvement
Family programming, which typically includes education and counseling, is part of a comprehensive recovery program. Families often play essential roles in the wellness of their members. Dysfunctional family systems may be part of the reason that individuals use substances, yet families can also be the greatest supporters of their loved one’s successful recovery. Trained family therapists can help clients and their family members determine how to facilitate lasting recovery or make decisions that are in the best interest of all family members.
Our Expert Treatment Team
We are home to some of the most talented and skilled behavioral healthcare providers. An integrated team of doctors, nurses, psychotherapists, and case managers, in partnership with expert managers and support staff, gives our clients unmatched skill, experience, and compassionate alliance.
Jasmine Aranda
A Chief Clinical Officer with three decades of experience oversees every client treatment plan.
Michael Barnes
A veteran researcher, clinician, and author with forty years of experience guides the future of treatment.
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A nationally recognized policy advisor, author, and speaker remains focused on continuing growth, education, and advocacy.
Our Facilty: Inpatient Treatment Center in Broomfield, Colorado
Our inpatient detoxification and residential treatment facility is located at 11952 Gray Street in Broomfield, Colorado. Broomfield is a beautiful suburb north of Denver. This convenient location is just a 30-minute drive from downtown Denver and the Denver International Airport.
Our 44,000-square-foot facility is spacious, comfortable, and well-appointed. Clients enjoy large common spaces to meet with peers and relax, recreational areas, a fitness center, private clinical offices, group therapy rooms, a commercial gourmet kitchen that serves delicious and nutritious meals, and more.
Inpatient Dining & Nutrition
Nutrition plays an important role in recovery. Living with active substance use disorders can deplete the body of vital nutrients, upset one’s metabolism, and lead to malnutrition. Learning to eat a healthy, balanced diet and rebuild a healthy relationship with food can bolster health and support recovery.
Foundry Front Range clients receive healthy and delicious meals and snacks prepared by professional chefs and informed by nutritional experts. We believe that good nutrition and a balanced diet are essential to building a healthy body and teaching clients how to support their ongoing well-being in recovery. Special diets can be accommodated with advanced notice. Meals are typically eaten together in the dining room, though clients may choose to dine privately.
Inpatient Treatment Program Services
We provide a comprehensive array of services to support physical, mental, and social recovery:
- Assessments & Screenings
- Nursing and Medication Management
- Individual Evidence-based Psychotherapies
- Nutritional Programming
- Life Skills Training
- Group Therapy Sessions
- Trauma Treatment
- Mindfulness Training
- Psychoeducation
- Self-Care & Wellness Programming
- Family Programming
- Case Management
- Recreational Activities
- Continuing Care Planning
- Gender-specific programs
Specialized Care Model: Trauma-Integrated Care
Our Trauma-Integrated Care Model was developed by Chief Clinical Advisor Michael Barnes, PhD, using more than forty years of direct care and research experience. Trauma-Integrated Care centers on the role that trauma plays in the development and perpetuation of substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. Traumatic life experiences can have cascading negative impacts, including an inability to experience emotions, damaged relationships, excessive stress, depression, hypervigilance, and more. People with unaddressed and unresolved trauma can feel the need to self-medicate their symptoms with substances like drugs and alcohol or engage in other damaging behaviors. Additionally, living with active addiction exposes people to a greater risk of trauma.
The Trauma-Integrated Care Model goes further than conventional trauma-informed models of care by designing the entire treatment episode around emotional safety and reduction and resolution of trauma symptoms. Team members are specially trained to support clients experiencing traumatic stress, family education is provided, and sophisticated trauma therapies are used as a normal course of treatment at Foundry Front Range.
Conditions Treated at Foundry Front Range
We are a licensed behavioral healthcare provider offering evidence-based treatment for adult substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders.
Alcohol Use Disorder (Alcoholism)
Alcohol claims the lives of more people annually than any other substance. We are experts at helping people safely stop drinking alcohol and engaging in a comprehensive program of therapies to achieve sobriety and recovery. We offer family programming to heal the whole family unit from the scars of addiction.
Heroin Addiction & Opioid Use Disorder
Heroin, fentanyl, and other opioid addictions remain at epidemic levels. We offer comprehensive therapy, psychiatric prescribing, and anti-craving medication. Our program stards with medically supervised detox and “ends” with alumni programming and ongoing community support.
Dual-Diagnosis Disorders
Substance Use and Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders are also known as Dual-Diagnosis Disorders. It is very common for addiction to involve anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar personality disorder, psychosis, and other mental health disorders. Treating both conditions effectively is vital.
Methamphetamine Addiction & Stimulant Use Disorder
Stimulant overdose is a growing problem, especially as the supply is adulterated with fentanyl or other opioids. We offer extensive experience helping people experiencing methamphetamine and stimulant use disorder.
Benzodiazepine Addiction
Benzodiazepines like Alprazolam (Xanax®),
Clonazepam (Klonopin®), Diazepam (Valium®), and Lorazepam (Ativan®) are medications typically used to treat anxiety but are often misused. Because suddenly stopping the use of benzodiazepines can be fatal, carefully supervised detoxification is needed.
Cannabis Use Disorder
Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) is a growing problem nationwide. Studies indicate increasing rates of cannabis use disorder following teh legalization and commercialization of cannabis in recent years. Cannabis Use Disorder poses unique health challenges, including hyperemesis, psychosis, paranoia, and heart-health risks.
Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders
Substance Use Disorders are very often accompanied by mental health disorders (so-called co-occurring mental health disorders). Clients may have mental health disorders before developing a substance use disorder, or they may develop mental illness resulting from substance use disorders.
Trauma and PTSD
Trauma and addictive disorders are inextricably linked. Whether someone has experienced an adverse childhood event (ACE) or traumatizing life events during adulthood, the symptoms of trauma can create a perceived need to self-medicate with alcohol or drugs.
Family System Dysfunction
Families are complex social units that may be sources of beliefs, stresses, and other factors that can lead to the development of addiction and mental health disorders. Studies also indicate that genetic inheritance can predispose individuals to addiction or mental illness. For this reason, getting a thorough family history can be helpful in assessing client needs.
Foundry Front Range Uses the Following Evidence-Based Therapies for Addiction Treatment:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Somatic Experiencing
- Gestault Therapies
- Art Therapy
What to Bring to Inpatient Treatment
Here is a packing list of what you should bring for your inpatient treatment stay and what you should leave at home. We ask clients to bring certain items and leave others at home to ensure a comfortable and safe experience for all clients.
What we provide for inpatient treatment clients:
- Towels
- Bed linens
- Laundry baskets
- Laundry soap
What you should bring with you for your stay with Foundry Front Range:
Clients are allowed to bring two bags containing the following belongings:
- Personal Identification
- Two weeks worth of comfortable, seasonably-appropriate clothing
- Sleepwear in line with dress code (no offensive language or slurs/innuendos)
- Toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo/conditioner, deodorant (must be brand new/unused)
- Shaving razors (Electric Razor is preferred)
- Sturdy, comfortable shoes
- Gym shoes and workout gear in line with dress code
- Indoor shoes or slippers
- Any prescription medication that you are currently taking in original containers
- Step or recovery work you have done
- Cell Phone: Cell phones are not accessible while in the primary residential program but are
required to enroll in or transfer to aftercare programming - Up to three creams/gels, sealed in original packaging (Must be approved by the Foundry Front Range
physician) - Insurance card
- Legal paperwork, if applicable
What to leave at home:
- Illicit drugs and/or alcohol. Unauthorized medication will be confiscated upon admission
Tobacco products, nicotine patches - E-cigarettes or vapor pens
- Mouthwash, hand sanitizer, perfume or aftershave
- Jewelry
- Over-the-counter medications or supplements
- Laptops
- iPads or tablets
- Smart Watches (i.e., Apple Watch)
- MP3 players
- Aerosol containers (hairspray)
- Scissors or sharp implements
- Energy drinks, vitamin water, food items
- Weapons of any kind
- Expired medications
- Clothing that promotes drug or alcohol use
- Tank tops, short shorts, muscle shirts, any excessively revealing clothing
Inpatient vs Outpatient: What’s the Difference?
Here’s a simple chart comparison of inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment options:
| Inpatient | Outpatient | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Lives at the facility 24/7 | Lives at home, attends sessions during the day |
| Duration | 28–90+ days | Weeks to months |
| Intensity | High — full-time treatment | Varies — a few hours per week to full days |
| Medical supervision | Round-the-clock | Limited to session times |
| Cost | Higher | Lower |
| Disruption to daily life | High — must leave work, family, school | Low — can maintain daily responsibilities |
| Best for | Severe addiction, unstable home environment, high relapse risk | Mild to moderate addiction, stable home environment, strong support system |
| Detox capability | Yes, medically supervised | Limited — may require separate detox program |
| Peer support | Intensive, live-in community | Group sessions only |
| Therapy frequency | Daily | A few times per week |
When is Inpatient Addiction Treatment the Best Choice?
Inpatient addiction treatment is the best choice in the following situations:
- Severe or long-term addiction: When substance use has been heavy, prolonged, or involves multiple substances, the intensity of inpatient care is often necessary.
- High risk of dangerous withdrawal: Detoxing from alcohol, benzodiazepines, or opioids can be life-threatening without 24/7 medical supervision.
- Previous failed attempts at outpatient treatment: If less intensive programs have not worked, a higher level of care is warranted.
- Unstable or unsupportive home environment: When a person’s living situation involves other users, high stress, or lack of support, removing them from that environment is critical.
- Co-occurring mental health conditions: Severe depression, anxiety, PTSD, or other disorders are best treated in a setting where integrated care is available around the clock.
- Lack of a strong support system: Those without family or community support benefit from the built-in community of an inpatient program.
- High relapse risk: Individuals with a history of relapse or strong environmental triggers are better protected in a residential setting.
- Medical complications: Any underlying health conditions that could be complicated by detox or withdrawal require close medical monitoring.
- Court-ordered or crisis situations: Legal mandates or acute crises such as overdose often call for the structure and security of inpatient care.
What Comes After Inpatient Addiction Treatment?
After completing inpatient treatment, individuals transition into a continuum of care designed to support long-term sobriety:
- Step-down to outpatient programs: Many people move into a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) or Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) to continue structured therapy while reintegrating into daily life.
- Sober living homes: Transitional housing that provides a substance-free environment and peer accountability for those not yet ready to return home.
- Ongoing individual therapy: Continued one-on-one counseling to address underlying issues, triggers, and mental health conditions.
- Medication-assisted treatment (MAT): Medications like naltrexone, buprenorphine, or vivitrol may be continued to reduce cravings and prevent relapse.
- Support groups: Programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), or SMART Recovery provide peer support and community.
- Family therapy: Continued work with family members to rebuild relationships and strengthen the home support system.
- Relapse prevention planning: A personalized plan identifying triggers, coping strategies, and steps to take if relapse occurs.
- Alumni programs: Many treatment facilities offer alumni networks, events, and check-ins to maintain connection and accountability.
- Primary care and psychiatric follow-up: Regular medical and mental health appointments to monitor overall wellness and medication management.
- Lifestyle changes: Building healthy routines around exercise, nutrition, sleep, and sober social activities to support sustained recovery.
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