We treat addiction to drugs and alcohol, and addiction to gambling. The centre is in the Kyiv region, takes people from all over Ukraine and is open around the clock.
Addiction is an illness, not a lack of willpower and not moral failure. The World Health Organization recognised alcoholism and drug addiction as diseases back in 1956. It is a primary, progressive, chronic and fatal illness, and it affects a person's thinking, feelings, spiritual life and behaviour.
Everything else follows from that. An illness cannot be cured by persuasion, by shame or by house arrest. It is treated the way any other chronic condition is treated: with a programme, a structured routine and trained specialists.
What we run is a professional course of psychotherapy that draws on the twelve steps. The main tool is daily therapy groups, supported by individual sessions. The centre is Christian and part of the daily routine is given over to spiritual work, whatever a person's own faith.
We help the people around the addicted person as much as the person themselves: to understand what they are dealing with, and to see it as an illness that can be recovered from.
Families have a separate programme of family support and aftercare, delivered in person or remotely, by phone or video call. This is not an optional extra — it is part of the outcome. A family that changes nothing returns the person to exactly the environment they came from.
We draw no line by income or social standing. Successful business owners, doctors, police officers, soldiers and homemakers all end up trapped by addiction; the illness does not pick its victims by the size of their wallet.
People come to the centre from all over Ukraine: Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Lviv, Dnipro and other cities. The family can work with our specialists remotely, from their own home town.
We do not make the decision for anyone and we do not bring people in by force. But a refusal spoken out loud is almost never the final word: in those cases a motivational psychologist works with the person.
We do not promise “21 days and cured for life”, and we do not guarantee the outcome in advance. Rehabilitation takes a different length of time for every person, because the stage of the illness, the years of use and the person's condition are all different. We give you that length after we have spoken.
We do not guarantee lifelong sobriety. Nobody can guarantee another person's choices, and a centre that promises this is already being dishonest on the first phone call. What we genuinely can do is give a person a programme, a setting and a community in which sobriety holds.
Kyiv region, Boryspil district, village of Petropavlivske, Budivelna Street. About an hour's drive from Kyiv.
Yes, the phones are answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week: +38 (063) 632-71-17 and +38 (098) 768-08-08.
Yes. We guarantee the anonymity of your enquiry — we do not disclose the fact that you contacted us, or any personal details.
Drug addiction, alcoholism and gambling addiction. These are three different illnesses with the same underlying mechanism, and the same programme works for all three.
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Good afternoon, this comment is for parents and relatives who are experiencing family problems! My daughter went through rehabilitation at this center, and she's finally sober and happy. I was desperate and didn't know where to turn. Miraculously, I found out about this place. My daughter went there herself and completed the full course of rehabilitation. The center is open and there's no moral pressure. They treat us with love and care, and they've really helped me and many other parents understand their children better! I'm eternally grateful to you, you've changed our lives and done what others couldn't do!!!
I want to express my deepest gratitude: my friend has already been clean for a year. With the help of this Rehabilitation Center, he began to recover and is now getting his life back on track. Using the knowledge and skills he gained at the Istok Center, he is trying to resolve his current problems and worries and is even helping others do the same! Thank you for opening his eyes and giving him a choice about the life he wants to live. Thank you for that!
A very good center!!! Thanks to the staff and the director of the rehab center, I have completely changed my life after twenty years of severe drug use. My family and I are so grateful that there are people like you who can show us the right path and, most importantly, support us when we think we're lost. I recommend it to everyone!!! All you need is a sincere desire, and the rehab center staff will help you with the rest.
The consultation is free and anonymous. It is usually the family who call first rather than the person with the addiction — that is normal, and most recovery stories begin exactly there.
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