Grant Street Partnership Cornell Scott Hill Health Center is a drug and alcohol addiction rehab center. Call today for help and start your journey towards life long sobriety.
Services Offered:Behavioral Health ServicesWe offer a range of residential, outpatient and community-based services customized to your needs. Our community-based programs include outpatient behavioral health clinics, gambling-specific treatment programs, and state-mandated driving-while-intoxicated and drug education programs for first-time offenders.Bettor Choice ProgramBettor Choice Program's counseling services are designed for problem gamblers and their families.In 1982, the state of Connecticut established the nation's first outpatient problem gambling treatment program. The Bettor Choice Program, created in 1998, has expanded specialized gambling treatment services to 17 sites statewide.
The Connection has two program sites in New Haven and Middletown. These programs offer substance abuse and mental health counseling services to problem gamblers and their families, regardless of ability to pay.At any Bettor Choice site, an individualized treatment plan is developed for each client.
What is Methadone?Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) is the most effective and researched treatment for addiction to opiates such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Lortab, Percocet, Morphine, Heroin, Codeine, Hydrocodone and Oxycodone. Methadone is widely used throughout the world to treat illegal opiate addiction and the negative consequences of opioid addiction like disease, death and crime.Methadone is prescribed individually, with medication levels determined based on differences in addiction history, opiate tolerance, body weight and metabolism. A proper maintenance dose will relieve opiate craving and withdrawal without creating euphoria or sedation for 24 to 36 hours.The goal of methadone maintenance treatment is to eliminate illegal opiate use stabilizing the patient for as long as necessary to help restore their lives and avoid returning to previous patterns of illegal and dangerous drug use.
What is Buprenorphine?Buprenorphine medications like Suboxone and Zubsolv are used to treat opiate addiction. As one of the newest medications available, like Methadone, Buprenorphine blocks painful withdrawal symptoms and cravings in order to help the patient feel normal again.When taken once daily, Buprenorphine blocks other opioids from attaching to receptors in the brain and helps control symptoms and cravings, so he or she can focus on resolving issues, while gaining relapse prevention skills.When combined with counseling, Buprenorphine treatment can help a patient stop misusing opioids, help them feel normal again so they are able to successfully rebuild their life. What is Vivitrol?Vivitrol is a newer injectable medication that is used to treat opiate addiction and alcohol addiction. An oral version is available as the generic naltrexone, and may also be known as ReVia.Vivitrol blocks other opioids from acting on the receptors in the brain and can also help ease drug cravings. By blocking the effects of other opioids it takes away the pleasurable effect, which can help with preventing relapse.Studies have shown that opioid-dependent patients who received counseling and Vivitrol had significantly more days of complete abstinence, stayed in treatment longer, reported less craving, and were less likely to relapse to physical dependence. Vivitrol is a valuable addition to the recovery toolbox, along with methadone and buprenorphinemedical research unequivocally shows that most individuals addicted to opiates require some form of medication to recover from their addiction, a chronic brain diseaseVivitrol, like any other medication for opioid dependence, must be accompanied by a firm commitment to recovery, including substance abuse counseling, outpatient programs and support systems.
Mark Publicker, President, Northeast Society of Addiction Medicine.