Lake Whatcom Residential and Treatment Center

Types of Care:

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

Service Settings:

• outpatient heroin rehab
• regular outpatient heroin treatment

Opioid Medications used in Treatment:

• Buprenorphine clinical treatment
• Naltrexone used in Treatment

External Opioid Medications Source:

• In-network prescribing entity
• Other contracted prescribing entity
• 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:

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

Pharmacotherapies:

• Disulfiram (Antabuse)
• Buprenorphine sub-dermal implant (Probuphine)
• Buprenorphine without naloxone
• Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable, for example, Sublocade)
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable naltrexone - Vivitrol)
• Medications for psychiatric disorders
• Medications for Hepatitis C treatment
• Clonidine

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• motivational incentives
• DBT
• motivational interviewing
• relapse prevention
• substance use counseling approach
• counseling for trauma victims

Facility Ownership:

• a private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation:

• State substance abuse agency

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Accepts Medicaid
• Accepts self payment and cash
• Accepts state health insurance

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• heroin rehab for transitional-age young adults
• residential heroin rehab for adult women
• heroin rehab for pregnant and postpartum women
• in-patient heroin rehab for adult men
• heroin rehab for seniors and older adults
• LGBT heroin rehab
• heroin rehab for veterans
• military families
• judicial clients
• co-occurring addiction and mental health treatment
• people with HIV or AIDS
• sexual abuse victims
• domestic violence victims
• people with trauma
• people with co-occurring pain plus substance use

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

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

Screening & Testing:

• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use
• TB screening

Transitional Services:

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

Ancillary Services:

• case management
• domestic violence services
• housing services
• mental health services
• social skills development
• transportation assistance
• drug addiction intervention
• mentoring

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling services
• counseling for groups
• substance use education
• employment counseling services
• educational support

Tobacco/Screening Services:

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

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking not allowed

Age Groups Accepted:

• accepts adults
• accepts young adults over 18

Gender Accepted:

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