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Substance Abuse Services
For substance abuse problems, or combinations of mental health and substance abuse problems, we provide:
- Comprehensive mental health and substance abuse assessment
- Individual and group psychotherapy for children, adolescents, families, and individual adults
- Psychoactive medications (psychopharmacology) in addition to psychotherapy, if and when this is indicated by psychiatric assessments
- Psycho-educational groups
Voluntary and court-mandated treatment
Most individuals who use our treatment services do so voluntarily, i.e., they participate because, and as long as, they believe that the service offers some help with the problem that brought them to our clinic. Some individuals who use our substance abuse services do so initially because they are required to by a court as an alternative to jail. Many of those who participate in these mandated services then find that the services help them recover from substance abuse and continue on a voluntary basis.
Self-help groups (AA & NA)
When we provide individual, group, and/or psychopharmacological (medication) treatment for substance abuse, we also require that the client participate in Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous meetings to support the individual’s recovery.
Our substance abuse services include:
- Adolescent substance abuse assessment and treatment recommendations by two DPH- trained and certified specialists in adolescent substance abuse – for all forms of substance abuse
- Adolescent outpatient treatment, individual and/or group, with or without medication
- Outpatient treatment for adolescents and adults with both substance abuse and mental health disorders
- Outpatient treatment for Spanish-speaking adolescents and adults, individual and/or group counseling by bi-cultural, bi-lingual clinicians
- Outpatient treatment for juveniles referred by the Department of Youth Services and provided in DYS day reporting centers
- Outpatient treatment for adults referred by the Somerville District Court Probation Department, mandated as an alternative to jail
- Outpatient treatment for adults referred by the Cambridge Drug Court as an alternative to jail
- Outpatient treatment for youth referred by the Somerville Police Department as an alternative to jail time in cases presenting no harm to others
- Outpatient Administration of Suboxone to maintain recovery following hospital detoxification for opiate addiction
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