Howard Brown Health Center

Types of Care:

• substance use treatment
• dual diagnosis treatment for co-occurring serious mental health illness/serious emotional disturbance and substance use disorders

Service Settings:

• outpatient treatment
• regular outpatient treatment

Opioid Medications used in Treatment:

• Naltrexone used in Treatment

External Opioid Medications Source:

• Personal physician/health care provider

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
• This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Personal physician/health care provider

Pharmacotherapies:

• Disulfiram (Antabuse)
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable naltrexone - Vivitrol)
• Medications for psychiatric disorders
• Medications for HIV treatment
• Medications for Hepatitis C treatment

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• dialectical behavior therapy
• motivational interviewing
• matrix Model
• relapse prevention
• substance use counseling approach
• trauma counseling

Facility Ownership:

• a private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation:

• State substance abuse agency

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Federal, or any government funding for substance use programs
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Military insurance
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment

Payment Assistance Available:

• Sliding fee scale

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• LGBT
• people with HIV or AIDS
• people with trauma

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Outreach to persons in the community

Screening & 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

Transitional Services:

• Aftercare/continuing care
• Discharge Planning
• Naloxone and overdose education

Ancillary Services:

• Case management
• Domestic violence services
• Early intervention for HIV
• Housing services
• Mental health services

Counseling Services and Education:

• family counseling
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV and AIDS education, counseling and support
• health education services

Medical Services:

• Hepatitis A vaccination
• Hepatitis B vaccination

Tobacco/Screening Services:

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

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted:

• adults
• young adults

Gender Accepted:

• women
• men

Services for deaf:

• Services for the deaf and hard of hearing are available

Additional Spoken Languages:

• Spanish