Damascus House is an addiction treatment center located at 4203 Ritchie Highway in the 21225 zip code in Brooklyn, MD.
It is operated by a private non-profit organization. Some of the treatment approaches used by Damascus House include anger management, counseling for trauma victims and 12 step rehabilitation. Damascus House provides long term heroin rehab, outpatient heroin rehab and one year inpatient heroin rehab. It also provides residential heroin abuse treatment and transitional and sober living.
Types of Care:
- halfway and sober housing
- residential heroin addiction treatment
Service Settings:
- outpatient heroin rehabilitation
- residential heroin rehab
- intensive outpatient heroin treatment
- regular outpatient heroin treatment
- long term residential heroin rehab
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
External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:
- Personal physician/health care provider
Treatment Approaches:
- anger management
- brief intervention services
- CBT
- motivational incentives
- dialectical behavior therapy
- motivational interviewing
- matrix model
- rational emotive behavioral therapy
- relapse prevention
- substance use counseling approach
- counseling for trauma victims
- 12 step rehabilitation
Facility Ownership:
- a private non-profit organization
License/Certification/Accreditation:
- State substance abuse agency
- State department of health
Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:
- Accepts Federal funding
- Accepts Medicaid
- Accepts self payment and cash
- Accepts state health insurance
Payment Assistance Available:
- Payment assistance available
- Sliding fee scale
Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:
- in-patient heroin rehab for adult males
- heroin rehab for seniors and older adults
- heroin rehab for vets
- judicial clients
- co-occurring addiction and mental health treatment
- HIV/AIDS clients
- sexual abuse victims
- domestic violence victims
- people with trauma
Assessment/Pre-treatment:
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
Screening & Testing:
- Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
- Drug or alcohol urine screening
- HIV testing
- Screening for Hepatitis B
- Screening for Hepatitis C
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
- STD testing
Transitional Services:
- Aftercare/continuing care
- Discharge Planning
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
Ancillary Services:
- case managers
- housing services
- recovery coaches
- self-help groups
- social skills training
- transportation assistance
- peer support
Counseling Services and Education:
- counseling for individuals
- counseling for groups
- substance use education
- hepatitis education, counseling and support
- HIV and AIDS education
- health education services
Tobacco/Screening Services:
- Screening for tobacco use
- Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling
Facility Smoking Policy:
- Smoking permitted in designated area
Age Groups Accepted:
- adult heroin rehab
- accepts young adults
Gender Accepted:
- in-patient heroin rehab for men
