Outpatient therapy, intensive outpatient programs (IOP), partial hospitalisation (PHP), inpatient care, and telehealth — what each level offers and how to choose.
When Daniel Hwang got out of his second residential rehab in Delray Beach, the discharge counselor handed him a brochure for a sober house ten minutes away. Daniel had bipolar I disorder. He had been stabilized on lithium and quetiapine for almost two years. The medications were the reason he had finally been able to … Read more
When Daniel Hwang got out of his second residential rehab in Delray Beach, the discharge counselor handed him a brochure for a sober house ten minutes away. Daniel had bipolar I disorder. He had been stabilized on lithium and quetiapine for almost two years. The medications were the reason he had finally been able to … Read more
Dr. Elena Vasquez had been running a family practice in Tucson for twelve years before she did her first real SBIRT screening. The patient was Reggie, a sixty-one-year-old retired postal worker who came in for a sore knee. Out of habit, Elena handed him the AUDIT questionnaire she had recently added to her intake packet. … Read more
Tasha Reynolds walked into the storefront on Park Street in Hartford on a Tuesday afternoon because her car had broken down and the bus stop was right outside. She had been out of inpatient treatment for five weeks. Her insurance had paid for twenty-eight days, then run out. Her counselor had handed her a list … Read more
Tasha Reynolds walked into the storefront on Park Street in Hartford on a Tuesday afternoon because her car had broken down and the bus stop was right outside. She had been out of inpatient treatment for five weeks. Her insurance had paid for twenty-eight days, then run out. Her counselor had handed her a list … Read more
Pavel arrived at a Detroit medical detox unit on a Wednesday in February with a blood alcohol level of .31, mild seizure-precursor tremors, and the phone number of an outpatient counselor he had been dodging for eight months. Six days later he was discharged to a 60-day residential program in Brighton, Michigan, the next step … Read more
Pavel arrived at a Detroit medical detox unit on a Wednesday in February with a blood alcohol level of .31, mild seizure-precursor tremors, and the phone number of an outpatient counselor he had been dodging for eight months. Six days later he was discharged to a 60-day residential program in Brighton, Michigan, the next step … Read more
Renata had been in and out of therapy in Chicago since she was 19. By 34 she had collected four different diagnoses (major depression, generalized anxiety, complex PTSD, and “treatment-resistant mood disorder”), six therapists, three antidepressant trials that did not help, and a marriage that had ended after her husband told a couples counselor he … Read more
Marcus was sitting in his Phoenix apartment at 2 a.m. with a bottle of his mother’s old hydrocodone in one hand and his phone in the other. The 31-year-old warehouse supervisor had not slept in four days. His sister had moved out the previous weekend, his lease renewal letter had arrived Tuesday, and the panic … Read more
Marcus was sitting in his Phoenix apartment at 2 a.m. with a bottle of his mother’s old hydrocodone in one hand and his phone in the other. The 31-year-old warehouse supervisor had not slept in four days. His sister had moved out the previous weekend, his lease renewal letter had arrived Tuesday, and the panic … Read more