1. Substance use treatment
Refers to a range of services, including problem identification and diagnosis, brief interventions, assessment of substance use and related problems, treatment planning, counseling, medical services, psychiatric services, psychological services, social services, and follow-up for persons with alcohol or other drug problems (Institute of Medicine, 1990).
1. Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
1. Cognitive behavioral therapy
Involves recognizing unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting, and then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. The therapy can be conducted with individuals, families, or groups, and clients are generally expected to be active participants in their own therapy.
2. Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
The ability for healthcare providers, working remotely and using telecommunications technology, to communicate with patients, diagnose conditions, provide treatment, and discuss healthcare issues with other providers to ensure quality healthcare services are provided.
3. Substance use disorder counseling
A short-term treatment that has been generalized for a variety of disorders including opiate drug dependence and cocaine abuse. The therapy includes supportive techniques which encourage the patient to discuss personal experiences, and expressive techniques, which enable the patient to work through interpersonal relationship issues and gain greater self-understanding.
4. Trauma-related counseling
Multiple types of therapy designed to treat clients suffering from a traumatic event(s).
5. Brief intervention
A short-term intervention, usually one to five sessions, for substance abusers who are not yet dependent.
6. Motivational interviewing
A counseling approach which acknowledges that many people experience ambivalence when deciding to make changes. The aim is not to focus immediately on the action of changing, but to work to enhance motivation to change.
7. Anger management
Uses strategies to address the anger cycle, conflict resolution, assertiveness skills, and anger-control plans. The goal of anger management is to reduce both emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes.
8. Relapse prevention
A cognitive behavioral therapy developed for the treatment of problem drinking and adapted later for treatment of cocaine addiction. Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic behaviors. Relapse prevention encompasses several cognitive behavioral strategies that facilitate abstinence as well as provide help for people who experience relapse.
1. Smoking not permitted
Smoking is not allowed.
1. Outpatient
Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.
2. Intensive outpatient treatment
3. Regular outpatient treatment
1. State Substance use treatment agency
Government organization responsible for planning, organizing, delivering, and monitoring substance use disorder services in their respective state.
2. State department of health
1. Cash or self-payment
Payment for treatment is made by the person directly, through cash or other means, rather than using health insurance.
2. Medicaid
A joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state.
3. State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
4. Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
Financial assistance provided by the federal, state, or local government for substance use treatment.
1. Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
Variable prices for services based on a person’s ability to pay.
1. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for LGBT clients.
2. Adolescents
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Adolescents.
3. Young adults
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Transitional age young adults.
1. Case management service
Helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports through a case manager who monitors the needs of clients/patients and their families and coordinates services, such as mental health, social work, health, educational, vocational, recreational, transportation, advocacy, and respite care, as needed.
2. Suicide prevention services
Services include identifying risk factors; educating staff on the signs of suicidal behavior and using methods to detect risk; and the assessment, intervention, and management of suicidal patients including treatment of an underlying mental or substance use disorder, and use of psychotropic medication, supportive services, and education. Hotlines help individuals to contact the nearest suicide prevention mental health provider.
1. Mentoring/peer support
1. Screening for tobacco use
Determines a client's use of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. It is generally recommended that providers screen for tobacco use on a regular basis by asking clients, as they are seen, about their current and past use of tobacco products and their exposure to secondhand smoke or tobacco.
2. Comprehensive substance use assessment
3. Outreach to persons in the community
4. Screening for mental disorders
Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of mental health conditions and needs treatment.
5. Screening for substance use
Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of substance use and needs treatment.
6. Professional interventionist/educational consultant
1. Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Includes interventions for persons who use tobacco and want help with stopping, including behavioral support or counseling in groups or individually.
2. Individual counseling
Process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.
3. Group counseling
Form of therapy where people with similar experiences/issues come together with a professional therapist.
4. HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
Access to education, counseling, and support groups to ‘at risk’ individuals and also individuals who have been infected with the virus.
5. Substance use disorder education
6. Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
Provides education, counseling, and guidance and support for individuals who are at risk for or potentially infected with the hepatitis virus.
1. Female
Female
2. Male
Male
1. Aftercare/continuing care
2. Discharge Planning
A process that aims to improve the coordination of services after discharge from the hospital by considering the patient’s needs in the community.
3. Naloxone and overdose education
1. Drug or alcohol urine screening
Analyzes your urine for the presence of certain illegal drugs and prescription medications.
1. Private non-profit organization
A charitable organization that does not qualify as a public charity.
1. No formal relationship with prescribing entity
1. Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
1. No formal relationship with prescribing entity
1. Vaping not permitted