North Charles Institute for The Addictions

Types of Care:

• medical heroin detox
• residential heroin abuse treatment
• inpatient treatment for co-occurring mental health and heroin use

Service Settings:

• outpatient heroin rehabilitation
• outpatient heroin detoxification
• outpatient methadone/buprenorphine/naltrexone treatment
• regular outpatient heroin treatment

Opioid Medications used in Treatment:

• Methadone treatment
• Buprenorphine treatment

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:

• In-network prescribing entity
• Other contracted prescribing entity
• Personal physician/health care provider

Type Of Treatment:

• buprenorphine detoxification
• buprenorphine maintenance
• methadone detoxification
• methadone maintenance

Pharmacotherapies:

• Methadone
• Buprenorphine with naloxone (Ex. Suboxone)
• Medications for psychiatric disorders

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention
• CBT
• motivational incentives
• dialectical behavior therapy
• motivational interviewing
• matrix model
• relapse prevention treatment
• substance use counseling approach
• counseling for trauma victims
• 12-step rehab

Facility Ownership:

• a private non-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 Federal funding
• Accepts Medicare
• Accepts Medicaid
• Accepts private health insurance
• Accepts self payment and cash

Payment Assistance Available:

• Sliding fee scale

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• residential heroin rehab for adult women
• in-patient heroin rehab for adult men
• co-occurring addiction and mental health treatment

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Comprehensive substance use assessment

Screening & Testing:

• Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• Screening for Hepatitis B
• Screening for Hepatitis C
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use
• 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:

• recovery management
• HIV early intervention
• mental health services
• social skills training
• transportation assistance

Detoxification:

• inpatient heroin detox

Counseling Services and Education:

• counseling for individuals
• counseling for groups
• family counseling
• counseling for couples
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV/AIDS counseling
• health education services

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Screening for tobacco use
• Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking not allowed

Age Groups Accepted:

• accepts adults
• accepts young adults

Gender Accepted:

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

Exclusive Services:

• Methadone and buprenorphine clients only
• Methadone clients only
• All Clients in Opioid Treatment Program