Florida is a very suitable area for international drug traffickers and money laundering organizations; it is a primary thoroughfare for cocaine and heroin transfers to the northeastern United States and Canada. Florida has over 8,000 miles of coastline and the short gap of 45 miles between the Bahamas and Florida provide almost unlimited opportunities for drug trafficking organizations in using maritime vehicles to smuggle illegal substances. Miami International Airport (MIA), which is also a gateway for heroin and MDMA trafficking in the state, continues to be the top airport in the U.S. for international freight and the third in the world in total freight.
South Florida, Miami-Dade and Broward counties in particular, are still the favored areas for drug traffickers in the smuggling of considerably large quantities of cocaine, heroin and marijuana into the continental United States from countries like South America, Central America and the Caribbean. Smuggling is done via various types of maritime vehicles and cargo freighters, as well as the usage of private and commercial aircrafts. Additionally, there is a continued transference to ground transportation on standby, like buses, trains, and cars as the mode of transporting the illegal substances throughout the state and to destinations in the north. Miami is the head domestic command & control hub for Colombian dangerous drugs traffickers.
The Colombian traffickers are the greatest international threat to the Miami Field Division (MFD). MFD enforcement units are in a continued attempt to cripple the transportation infrastructure of Colombian traffickers within the Eastern Pacific, the Caribbean and Florida. Florida spearheads the nation in MDMA seizures.
In spite of all the effort invested by the state of Florida in alleviating the importation and distribution of illegal drugs, a considerably large amount do slip through the grip of the Miami Field Division; and at that, many people are still in peril of addiction and substance abuse.
To help alleviate this problem, Florida has established drug rehabilitation centers, spread throughout the territory, ready to assist the people who have fallen victim to the products of people, aimed to enrich themselves, at the cost of many innocent lives.
Tri-Country Human Services Inc.
Mission Statement
Tri-County Human Services endeavors to provide a wide array of high quality human services, in accordance with the needs of the community. The services are all provided in a cost effective, ethical, and professional decorum and focuses on improving the quality of life of all the people the center serves.
Philosophy
Tri-County Human Services, Inc. (Tri-County) have all its programs operating on the philosophy that substance addiction is a primary, chronic, progressive, and ultimately fatal disease if untreated. The agency accepts the concept that substance addiction adversely affects all the areas of a person’s life, which includes their interpersonal relationships, vocational/educational abilities, the emotional well-being, and physiological health.
Tri-County does not strictly adhere to any one prevalent theory regarding substance addiction and its treatment. On the contrary, the facility’s staff understands that addictive disorders are most often caused by a combination of several factors, including the unique genetic origin of the person, their emotional and psychological influences, cultural perspectives, and behavioral reinforcement. The Tri-County staff understands that drug addiction is an illness affecting the whole family in which each member of the addicted person’s immediate and even their extended family is touched by the behaviors and attitudes of the addicted individual. In keeping with this philosophy, the center’s treatment teams highly encourage family participation during the treatment process.
The agency recognizes that many of the clients served by the facility also have a concurrent mental health disorder. Like substance abuse cases, mental health problems can trigger severe dysfunction in a person’s life, especially in the areas of normal day-to-day living skills, interpersonal relationships, as well as vocational or education skills.
It is preferred that these dually diagnosed patients are given simultaneous treatment of both disorders. Residential treatment is available for dually diagnosed clients who haven’t favorably responded to outpatient treatment programs or whose severe symptomology contraindicates outpatient care.
Tri-Country Core Values
In keeping with the integrated mission statement, TCHS has adopted its essential core values that drive all the decisions regarding the direction and program development for served clients, and agency staffing. These core values have been primed as the basis for the agency through continual education, efficiently applied experience, and recognizing where change in structure further improves the quality of the agency. These core values are:
1. To promote the right for all to be treated with both dignity and respect.
2. To establish the right to exercise informed choices for all persons.
3. Prompt access to required services that have been designed and provided in a manner to achieve the best outcome.
4. To utilize outcomes to continually improve the quality, heighten professional management, and services of all existing programs.
5. To embrace the unique cultural diversity of the community and make use of its strengths to relevant services of the agency.
6. To respect its governance, leadership, associates, and partnerships that make it possible for the agency to continually serve.
7. To promote a "No Wrong Door", welcoming service accommodations to all who request and enroll in the services.
8. To meet all persons at the level of their ability, without discriminative regard of their physical, substance, mental, or co-occurring challenge.
Programs and Services
• Adult Outpatient Services
• Adolescent Outpatient Services
• Florida Center for Addictions and Dual Disorders
• Residential Assessment and Stabilization Unit for Women
-Substance abuse treatment
-Mental health treatment
-Medical services
-Counseling services
-Financial support services
-Drug-free, safe housing
-Child care services
-Parenting skills
-Vocational and education services
• Winter Haven Halfway House
• Lakeland Transitional Living Facility
• Medically Supervised Detoxification
• DUI Program
• Drug Alcohol Traffic Education
• Assessment and Referral
• Self-Help Groups
• Prevention Services
Tri-Country Human Services Inc. contact information:
Human Services, Inc.
Administrative Offices
1815 Crystal Lake Drive
Lakeland, Florida 33801-5979
Phone: (863) 709-9392
Fax: (863) 709-8923
While choosing the drug rehab it has to be made sure that all the aspects of what caused the addiction problem in the first place have to be addressed.
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