Damascus House

Types of Care:

• halfway and sober housing
• residential treatment for heroin use

Service Settings:

• outpatient heroin rehab
• long-term heroin rehab
• intensive outpatient heroin treatment services
• regular outpatient heroin treatment
• 90 day and 1 year inpatient 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
• CBT
• motivational incentives
• dialectical behavior therapy
• motivational interviewing
• matrix model
• rational emotive behavioral therapy
• relapse prevention
• substance use counseling approach
• trauma counseling
• 12-step rehab

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:

• Provides payment assistance
• Sliding fee scale

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• in-patient heroin rehab for adult males
• heroin rehab for 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:

• recovery management
• housing services
• recovery training
• self-help groups
• social skills training
• help with transportation
• mentoring

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling
• 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:

• accepts adults
• accepts young adults

Gender Accepted:

• in-patient heroin rehab for men