Boulevard Outpatient Stabilization Program

• By: Elliot Zimpfer, LMHC, CASAC Horizon Health Services
• April 1st, 2018
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According to the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (2016), facilities were asked how many patients in treatment on 03/21/16 received MAT for detoxification and maintenance purposes. Within this survey, MAT includes the use of methadone and buprenorphine for the treatment of...

Barriers to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opiate Use Disorders

• By: Christene Amabile, FNP-BC Paige Prentice, MM, CASAC Horizon Health Services
• July 1st, 2015
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It has become an all too familiar (but no less disturbing) scenario for the nurse practitioner working in a large drug treatment center in upstate New York. Today she is leading an educational support group for individuals who are opiate dependent and awaiting medication assisted treatment with...

What to Expect When Your Service Member Returns Home

• By: Paige Prentice, MM, CASAC Horizon Health Services
• April 1st, 2015
• 668    0

It is incredibly important to discuss how family members can prepare themselves for the physical and emotional changes they may have to make when their spouse, partner, parent or child returns home from combat. Many service members experience intense stress reactions as they readjust to a very...