Addiction (Substance Use Disorder)

In partnership with patients, families, and the community, Strong Recovery promotes recovery from substance use and mental health disorders through holistic, person-centered care that values diversity, teaching, and research. Treatments include:

• Alcohol Use Disorder
• Substance Use Disorders
• Nicotine Use Disorder
• Opioid Use Disorder

Our multidisciplinary team of caregivers provides outpatient treatment for substance use and related mental health disorders, serving adolescents and adults (14 years old and up). No one will be denied access to services due to inability to pay; a discounted/sliding fee schedule is available. Our holistic approach values diversity, teaching, and research.

Strong Recovery provides wrap-around support to assist patients with all facets of substance use disorder treatment including Family Services, Mental Health Therapy, Peer Support Services, Targeted Case Management, and Continuing Care Services.

We do this through several innovative programs:

Substance Use in Primary Care: This specialized, mobile team works with primary care provider offices and within some hospital units. These addiction specialists assess patients for needed care and link them to those services, such as inpatient care or Strong Recovery’s outpatient Chemical Dependence or Opioid Treatment Services.

Adolescent & Young Adult Clinic: This two-track program focuses on adolescents between 14 and 18 years old and young adults between 18 and 24. Our trained staff takes a holistic approach, tailoring care to the patient’s age and emotional development while addressing external factors that drive substance use.

Outpatient Chemical Dependency Services (Strong Recovery): We offer intensive individual therapy and a variety of group therapy options as well as medication for addiction treatments. We also provide wrap-around support, including Family Services, Mental Health Therapy, Peer Support Services, Targeted Case Management, Criminal Justice-Focused Services, and Continuing Care Services.

Substance Use, Infection Treatment and Support (SUMMITS): This specialized hospital unit provides acute medical care to people who have substance use disorders or addictions who need to stay in the hospital for long courses of treatment.

Opioid Treatment Programs: We use an integrated care model, specializing in treating patients (18 and older) with opioid use disorders and with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. Multiple types of therapy and medication treatments are available.

Medication-assisted treatment includes:

• Methadone
• Buprenorphine (Suboxone, Subutex, Zubsolv, Sublocade)
• Monthly injectable naltrexone (Vivitrol)
• Oral naltrexone (Revia), acamprosate (Campral), disulfiram (Antabuse)
• Nicotine replacement medications

Individual, Group, and Family Therapy

• Specialty groups help patients develop coping skills, build healthy relationships, set goals for recovery, learn mindfulness and meditation, explore spirituality, improve family dynamics and parenting, deal with grief, loss or trauma, cope with chronic pain, and prevent relapse. Therapy options also include intensive individual therapy and family therapy services.