Substance Abuse Service Line

Mission

The Mission of the Substance Abuse Service Line is to provide individualized treatment from a multidisciplinary/holistic approach. The focus is to provide patients with the tools to increase their stabilization/habilitation/rehabilitation with an emphasis on relapse prevention.

Specific Programs include:

• Exodus Program The Exodus program is a highly structured program based on AA's philosophy of abstinence and personal responsibility. Patients have minimal or no additional psychiatric/medical impairments. The length of stay is 60-90 days.
  
  
• New Horizons This program provides individual treatment focusing on the aspect of co-occurring diagnoses with the disease of addiction as the primary diagnoses. The minimum length of stay is 90 days.
  
  
• Star This program is for patients with a dual diagnosis of substance abuse and mental illness. We provide individualized treatment based on assessment of psychiatric symptoms and stage of change to substance abuse treatment. The program revolves around group participation based on 12 steps of dual recovery. Symptom management, abstinence, and relapse prevention are emphasized. Average length of stay is 5-6 months.
  
  
• Phoenix
The Phoenix Program is designed to provide services to relatively high functioning individuals who have an addiction, and who may also have a mental/medical illness. Treatment in the Phoenix Program focuses on arresting addiction and managing mental illness in the context of a Twelve Step Dual Recovery Model. The length of stay in this program is determined by each individual's progress, but will generally run approximately 90 days for most people.


• Lawson House
The Lawson House is basically a Relapse Prevention Program. Clients from other substance abuse programs may be referred to the Lawson House in their last thirty days of treatment. Lawson House was established so clients getting ready for discharge could prepare for a successful return to community living. Clients will develop a relapse prevention plan, establish out-patient appointments, and obtain a temporary self-help group sponsor. Our hope is they will return to community living without returning to drug abuse. Length of stay is thirty days.

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