Addiction & Substance Use
Supporting recovery with compassionate care and relapse prevention strategies.
Addiction & Substance Use
Deep commitment to patients struggling with addiction, providing stabilizing psychiatric care, MAT evaluation, and recovery support.
Approaches Used
- Medication Management
- MAT Evaluation
- Motivational Interviewing
- Relapse Prevention
What this often looks like
- The amount you intend to use and the amount you use have stopped matching
- Stopping produces physical symptoms, not only cravings
- You have built your day around access without calling it that
- People close to you have changed how they speak to you about it
- You have stopped before, successfully, and it came back anyway
What the first appointment covers
What you say here is clinical information, not evidence. The evaluation covers what you use, how much, for how long, what withdrawal has looked like, and what previous attempts taught us. It also covers what is underneath: untreated anxiety, trauma and ADHD are common drivers, and treating the substance while ignoring them is how relapse gets built in.
How it is treated here
Care combines psychiatric treatment of what sits underneath with evaluation for medication-assisted treatment where it is appropriate. Relapse is treated as clinical information about what the plan missed, not as a moral failure or grounds for discharge. Motivational interviewing is used rather than confrontation, because confrontation reliably produces agreement in the room and nothing afterwards.
What to expect, and when
There is no fixed timetable, and anyone offering one is guessing. What is predictable is the shape: the early weeks are about stabilisation and safety, the following months about treating the psychiatric conditions underneath, and the period after that about the situations that historically preceded a return.
Questions patients ask
Will I be discharged if I relapse?
No. A return to use tells us something about the plan that we did not know, and the plan changes accordingly. Being dropped at the moment of relapse is a common experience in this field and a reliable way to ensure someone does not come back.
Can medication for opioid use disorder be started by telehealth?
Federal rules currently allow certain medications approved for opioid use disorder to be started following a telemedicine evaluation, including by audio-only in specific circumstances. That flexibility runs through 31 December 2026. What is appropriate for you is decided clinically at the evaluation.
Do I have to be abstinent before you will treat my depression or anxiety?
No. Requiring abstinence before treating the psychiatric condition that drives the use is a sequence that fails often. Both are addressed together, with attention to interactions and to which medications are safe alongside ongoing use.
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