Outpatient therapy, intensive outpatient programs (IOP), partial hospitalisation (PHP), inpatient care, and telehealth — what each level offers and how to choose.
It was 11 p.m. on a Tuesday in Manhattan when Daniel’s wife called 911. He had been awake for three nights, convinced the upstairs neighbors had installed a listening device, and he had just emptied a kitchen drawer trying to find proof. The paramedics took him to Bellevue Hospital. Daniel’s wife, Iris, expected the kind … Read more
Patrice raised her son Devin in a third-floor walkup in the Bronx, watched him graduate from a public high school, and then watched schizophrenia take him apart over five years. By the time Devin was twenty-six, he had been hospitalized eleven times, always brought in by police, always discharged within ten days with a prescription … Read more
Patrice raised her son Devin in a third-floor walkup in the Bronx, watched him graduate from a public high school, and then watched schizophrenia take him apart over five years. By the time Devin was twenty-six, he had been hospitalized eleven times, always brought in by police, always discharged within ten days with a prescription … Read more
When the Henderson family of Boulder finally sat down with an educational consultant, they had already lived through eighteen months of escalating crisis. Their fifteen-year-old son Caleb had cycled through outpatient therapy, an intensive outpatient program, two short psychiatric hospitalizations, and a residential treatment stay that ended after his insurance ran out. The school district … Read more
When the Henderson family of Boulder finally sat down with an educational consultant, they had already lived through eighteen months of escalating crisis. Their fifteen-year-old son Caleb had cycled through outpatient therapy, an intensive outpatient program, two short psychiatric hospitalizations, and a residential treatment stay that ended after his insurance ran out. The school district … Read more
Sophia Marquez was sixteen when she came home from her second residential treatment stay in Minneapolis. Her parents had pulled her from the comprehensive high school where she had been using opioids since freshman year. The treatment team’s discharge plan called for her to enroll somewhere with sober peers, integrated counseling, and accountability that did … Read more
Sophia Marquez was sixteen when she came home from her second residential treatment stay in Minneapolis. Her parents had pulled her from the comprehensive high school where she had been using opioids since freshman year. The treatment team’s discharge plan called for her to enroll somewhere with sober peers, integrated counseling, and accountability that did … Read more
Marcus Reyna did three combat tours in Helmand Province before the Marine Corps medically retired him in 2019. The PTSD diagnosis came first, the alcohol came second, and by the time he was thirty-two he had been evicted from two apartments in San Antonio and was sleeping in his pickup outside a Whataburger. A VA … Read more
Marcus Reyna did three combat tours in Helmand Province before the Marine Corps medically retired him in 2019. The PTSD diagnosis came first, the alcohol came second, and by the time he was thirty-two he had been evicted from two apartments in San Antonio and was sleeping in his pickup outside a Whataburger. A VA … Read more
Dr. Anita Rao practiced anesthesia at a Level I trauma center in Cleveland for nine years before the diversion started. It began with leftover fentanyl in syringes that should have gone to waste. By month four she was injecting between cases, hiding the evidence in the drug return system. The OR pharmacy noticed the discrepancies … Read more