Athens Area Commencement Center

Types of Care:

• supervised heroin detox
• residential heroin use treatment

Service Settings:

• outpatient heroin rehabilitation
• outpatient heroin detoxification
• partial hospitalization
• intensive outpatient heroin treatment program
• regular outpatient heroin treatment

Opioid Medications used in Treatment:

• Buprenorphine treatment
• Naltrexone used in Treatment

External Opioid Medications Source:

• Personal physician/health care provider

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
• Prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Personal physician/health care provider

Type Of Treatment:

• buprenorphine detoxification
• suboxone prescription
• naltrexone administration
• relapse prevention from naltrexone

Pharmacotherapies:

• Acamprosate (Campral)
• Disulfiram (Antabuse)
• Buprenorphine with naloxone (Ex. Suboxone)
• Buprenorphine without naloxone
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable naltrexone - Vivitrol)
• Clonidine

Treatment Approaches:

• brief intervention services
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• motivational interviewing
• matrix model
• rational emotive behavioral therapy
• relapse prevention treatment
• counseling for substance abuse
• 12-step rehab

Facility Ownership:

• a private for-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation:

• State substance abuse agency
• State department of health
• Certified by Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Accepts private health insurance
• Accepts self payment and cash
• Accepts state health insurance

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• heroin rehab for transitional-age young adults
• residential heroin rehab for adult women
• heroin rehab for pregnant and postpartum women
• in-patient heroin rehab for adult men
• heroin rehab for seniors and older adults
• heroin rehab for LGBT clients
• heroin rehab for vets
• military families
• judicial clients
• dual diagnosis treatment
• people with HIV or AIDS
• sexual abuse victims
• domestic violence victims
• people with trauma
• co-occurring substance abuse plus pain treatment

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Outreach to persons in the community

Screening & Testing:

• Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• Screening for Hepatitis B
• Screening for substance use
• STD testing
• TB screening
• Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing

Transitional Services:

• Aftercare/continuing care
• Discharge Planning
• Naloxone and overdose education
• Outcome follow-up after discharge

Ancillary Services:

• case management
• self help meetings
• social skills training
• mentoring

Detoxification:

• inpatient alcohol detox
• residential benzodiazepines detoxification
• inpatient cocaine detoxification
• methamphetamines detox
• inpatient heroin detox

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling services
• group counseling
• counseling for families
• counseling for couples
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV and AIDS education
• health education services

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Nicotine replacement therapy
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation medications
• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted:

• adult heroin rehab
• accepts young adults over 18

Gender Accepted:

• heroin rehab for women
• in-patient heroin rehab for men