Design A Routine Foundation

DESIGN A ROUTINE FOUNDATION

Our Mission

Design A Routine Foundation supports individuals facing addiction and mental health challenges by providing free, compassionate care, recovery resources, education, and pathways to healing.

We believe that positive daily routines can transform lives, strengthen families, and build healthier communities.

Services Include:
• Recovery support resources
• Family reunification assistance
• Community outreach
• Education and prevention
• Volunteer opportunities

Together we can create hope, healing, and a brighter future.

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🌎🍧 EARTH DAY SPECIAL 🍧🌎

This Wednesday, we’re doing something special at Routine Refresh Community Ice!

Bring a bottle, can, or small piece of trash and get $1 OFF your cup ♻️

Let’s keep our community clean while enjoying a cool treat!

Every purchase also supports community recovery programs ❤️

📍 Catch us at the park
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Let’s refresh the earth together

The entire detoxification process for op**te addiction is about 12-18 months and it happens in three separate stages. The bloodstream, which takes 3-7 days, the physical, which lasts from 60-90 days, and then there's the emotional and psychological detoxification that starts at about 4-6 months. That's when the brain usually gets to some kind of chemical baseline or relative thought process. The key is to get the addicted person to this point. Before this point, the brain is at a constant state of chemical incompetence. If anyone isn't sure of the difference between a constant and a relative here is an analogy ... the sky is blue every day no matter what, it’s blue - that is the constant, what is relative is the particular shade of blue in the sky at any given time in the day. After about two months of the brain maintaining this baseline, the final detox happens. That is when the receptors and transmitters get to clarity. It happens in just about the same time it takes to get hooked in the first place. It all comes back. That person that was lost due to this incompetence starts to emerge again. You can get clean and sober from everything else but with he**in you have to get clean - then clear. The easiest way to understand this is put a piece of paper in front of your eyes and say, “This is clean,” pull it away and say, "This is clear,” and repeat it a couple of times. It is important that everyone understands the current treatment plan is not even getting them halfway through the physical detox. Now, I'd like to break down the physical detoxification process. You will not die from he**in withdrawal. You want to die and you feel like you’re dying, but you probably won’t. The symptoms for the first 24-72 hours are in order ... profuse sweating, runny nose, tearing eyes, cold chills, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, deep muscle pain, headaches, convulsive muscle spasms and bone and joint pain. Everything I just described is the central nervous system purging the body looking for op**tes. After the first 12-24 hours, all of these symptoms are happening at once. When an addict says they can’t be sick, this is what they are talking about. As these physical symptoms are happening, the psychological symptoms start: anxiety, depression, anger, insomnia, bi-polar like actions and mild hallucinations. After anywhere from 3-7 days of this, the body starts to stabilize. The addict starts to crave two things besides he**in: sugar and fluids, which will last 2-3 months. After 7-10 days, the vomiting and diarrhea stops, but all of the other symptoms continue to occur for another 60-90 days until the body is finally detoxed. The brain is still in a complete state of chemical incompetence that does not start to change until 4-6 months of not having op**tes or any other mood-altering chemicals in the brain. At about the 4 month mark, the psychological withdrawal starts to increase. This is the second stage. This will last 4-6 months. At this point, the brain is trying to manipulate the addict in any way possible to get high. The disease can no longer manipulate the body so now it moves to the emotional and rational part of the brain. These are trigger symptoms and some of them are over-confidence (thinking you can use and stop again), anxiety, depression, guilt, mis-trust, and money (either having it or not having it). One of the other symptoms in this stage is laughing or crying at any given time for no apparent reason - it just happens. I just need to add this - at just about the 30 day point, there is a big over-confidence trigger which relates to the addict in rehab. Finally, if the addict makes it to the 6-8 month mark without any major chemical influences, the last step in the process happens slowly. At first, the receptors and transmitters and all that good stuff in the brain starts to come back. Rational thought starts to take hold and the addict's brain is now at a chemical baseline which it probably hasn't been at since they became addicted. Now the addict has finally gotten clean and clear. Clean from the body and clear in the brain. There is a huge responsibility on the addict to stay clean, but you have to get them to a point of chemical competence so they can fully accept their responsibility and understand their addiction.

Routine Refresh is here 🍧✨

We’re bringing refreshing water ice to the community—while supporting a bigger mission.

Every cup you purchase helps us give back through recovery support, outreach, and community programs.

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