Department of Psychiatry Norwalk Hospital

Types of Care:

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

Service Settings:

• hospital inpatient heroin rehab
• outpatient heroin services
• hospital inpatient heroin detoxification
• hospital inpatient alcohol/heroin treatment
• partial hospitalization
• intensive outpatient heroin treatment
• regular outpatient heroin treatment

Hospitals:

• General Hospital (including VA hospital)

Opioid Medications used in Treatment:

• Buprenorphine treatment
• Naltrexone used in Treatment

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder

Type Of Treatment:

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

Pharmacotherapies:

• Acamprosate (Campral)
• Disulfiram (Antabuse)
• Buprenorphine without naloxone
• Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable, for example, Sublocade)
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable naltrexone - Vivitrol)
• Medications for psychiatric disorders
• Clonidine

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention services
• CBT
• motivational incentives
• dialectical behavior therapy
• motivational interviewing
• relapse prevention
• counseling for substance abuse
• counseling for trauma victims
• 12-step rehab

Facility Ownership:

• a private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation:

• State department of health
• State mental health department
• Certified by The Joint Commission

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Accepts Federal funding
• Accepts Medicare
• Accepts Medicaid
• Accepts private health insurance
• Accepts self payment and cash
• Accepts state health insurance

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Interim services for clients
• Outreach to persons in the community

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
• TB screening
• Testing for metabolic syndrome

Transitional Services:

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

Ancillary Services:

• case managers
• domestic violence services
• HIV early intervention
• sober housing services
• mental health services
• recovery training
• self-help groups
• social skills development
• transportation assistance
• group meetings

Other Addictions Treatment:

• general addiction disorder treatment

Detoxification:

• inpatient alcohol detoxification
• residential benzodiazepines detox
• in-patient methamphetamines detoxification
• inpatient opioid detoxification

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling services
• counseling for groups
• counseling for families
• marital/couples counseling
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV/AIDS counseling
• health education services
• employment counseling and training
• vocational training

Medical Services:

• Hepatitis A vaccination
• Hepatitis B vaccination

Tobacco/Screening Services:

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

Facility Smoking Policy:

• No smoking allowed

Age Groups Accepted:

• accepts adults
• accepts young adults

Gender Accepted:

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

Services for deaf:

• Service for hearing impaired