Outpatient Treatments
Not everyone needs inpatient services. You may be able to continue living at home and/or working during treatment. If so, the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai offers innovative and flexible outpatient programs. With a full range of programs at various times of the day, you can receive treatment that fits around your work schedule and/or child care needs.
Outpatient Programs at Mount Sinai Beth Israel
At Mount Sinai Beth Israel, we can help you make behavioral changes to gain and maintain chemical abstinence. We continually re-evaluate and adjust your services. We want to offer exactly as much help—and as often—as you need. We also ensure that you have access to psychiatrists if appropriate.
Treatment planning may include the following:
- Ambulatory Detoxification: If you have an opioid addiction, we may be able to offer ambulatory. We use methadone or Suboxone. The process involves daily assessment by our nursing and counseling.
- Brief Therapy: With 10 sessions in 10 weeks, brief therapy is solution-focused. You work with a counselor on relapse prevention skills and techniques and coping strategies. We emphasize self-help and community resources and provide Weekly assignments. You receive support in person and by telephone. To qualify, you must be medically and psychiatrically stabilized and highly motivated. Random urine testing is required.
- Outpatient Medication-Assisted Treatment Programs: Outpatient medication treatment can help you get—and stay— sober. It works well for opioids, alcohol, and tobacco. We use therapy approaches that focus on how you think about addiction, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing.
- Services for Adolescents: Teenagers are very impressionable and vulnerable to substance abuse problems. And these problems can affect the rest of the family as well. Our programs include an on-site high school, after-school program, and an intensive day program for teens who need a significant amount of support.
Additional Outpatient Services:
- Anger management groups help you learn to control your anger. We also teach assertiveness and cognitive restructuring.
- Boomer’s group is for patients who are 50 years of age or older. The group provides education, support, and discussion.
- Co-dependency groups help you see what you do that affects your addiction. These behaviors may stem from your own experiences, family dynamics, and other relationships. We can also help you change these behaviors.
- Domestic violence groups teach about domestic violence. You learn about safety planning. We also offer referrals to other services.
- Dual focus groups help people who have both an addiction and a psychiatric diagnosis. You see how addiction affects your psychiatric disorder. You also learn about how the disorder affects your addiction. We offer education and coping strategies.
- DWI screening, assessment, and referral services are for people who are sent by the court system after an arrest for driving while intoxicated (DWI). Please bring all court-issued documents. We will fax any required documents to the courts after you complete the evaluation. If we diagnosis you with substance abuse, we will refer you to a DWI-specific program.
- Family therapy happens one-on-one and in groups. We focus on your family and how addiction affects your family members.
- Gender-specific groups center on the needs of men and women in recovery. They provide education, support, and discussion.
- The women’s group addresses relationships, trauma, setting limits, and self-esteem.
- The men’s group talks about resentment, respect, being valued, and healthy relationships.
- Group therapy is our primary approach. It includes all aspects of education and the recovery process.
- Health education lectures happen regularly. Our nursing and medical staff focuses on your medical, health, and nutrition needs.
- Individual counseling is working one-on-one with a counselor. You meet with your counselor throughout treatment.
- Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Group focuses on issues LGBT patients experience during recovery.
- Parenting groups teach ways to raise your children. We use education and emotional support.
- Psychiatric Services are available if you need them. We can also provide psychiatric consultation and treatment.
- Spanish-speaking relapse prevention group takes place in Spanish. It has the same curriculum as the other relapse prevention group.
- Stress management helps prevent relapse. You learn to relax using breathing, exercise, guided imagery, and meditation.
- Substance use disorder education helps you understand addiction as a disease. We explore how it affects your body chemistry and behavior. You learn coping strategies.
- Vocational preparation can assist in your job search. Our vocational counselor helps you explore different careers, prepare to work, fine-tune our resume, and search for employment. We can refer you to training programs and practice job interviews.
Outpatient Programs at Mount Sinai Morningside
At the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai Morningside, we are here for you.
- Comprehensive Addiction Treatment Program (CATP): This outpatient program strives to help you assume responsibility for yourself and your children, become free of all drugs and alcohol, develop and improve life skills in areas of parenting, education, and vocation. All our core services focus on relapse prevention. We also provide assertiveness training and vocational and college counseling. We want you to grow a clean and sober support network. If you have a job, we offer evening group and individual counseling services. We also have an intensive day treatment program if you need a highly structured experience. We offer the following services:
- Basic education
- High School Equivalency preparation
- Individual counseling
- Milieu therapy to develop a strong, sober recovery network
- Prevocational counseling
- Psychiatric evaluation and treatment
- Self-help groups
- Substance abuse group therapy
For appointments and insurance information, please call 212-280-0100.
- Connect: If you have a substance abuse disorder and are pregnant or have young children, you might experience problems. These problems could affect you—and your children. Our CONNECT Program offers substance abuse treatment to meet the multiple personal and family needs of mothers and mothers-to-be in recovery. Our primary goals for treatment are to help you become free of all drugs and alcohol, develop a clean and sober support network, develop constructive coping skills to prevent relapse, achieve economic self-sufficiency, upgrade academic skills, obtain marketable skills for employment and achieve family stabilization and reunification from foster care. We offer the following services:
- Basic education
- Case management services
- Child care (during mother’s session)
- Domestic violence counseling
- High school equivalency preparation
- Individual counseling
- Life skills and arts /crafts
- Milieu therapy to develop a recovery network
- Parenting skills workshops
- Regular toxicology testing
- Substance abuse group therapy
- Vocational counseling
For appointments and insurance information, please call 212-280-0100.
Outpatient Programs at Mount Sinai West
- Crystal Clear Project (Methamphetamine): We designed the Crystal Clear Project to address the growing problem of crystal methamphetamine use. We also focus on its link to unsafe sexual practices among gay and bisexual men.
As part of our Crystal Clear Project, you can also join our other programs that address crystal methamphetamine abuse. The programs are also open to gay men struggling with other substances.
The Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai - West is a welcoming place for open conversation. You can talk about drug and alcohol use, sexual behaviors, homophobia, and intimacy. We hope that this environment will help you feel better about yourself as a gay man. And change your substance use patterns. We also provide education to increase awareness about methamphetamines. Our goals are to help clinicians become more sensitive to the needs of their LGBT clients.
If you are part of the Crystal Clear Project, you can join any of the other services at The Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai West. You can also participate in any of the other medical and psychiatric services of Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West hospitals.
The program offers:
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- Comprehensive assessment
- Group and individual therapy
- Psychopharmacological evaluations
- First Step (FTP): First Step (FTP) is designed to help people seeking outpatient treatment and support to deal with their alcohol and drug use. We can also help with any other mental health issues you may have.
- College Outreach Prevention Education (C.O.P.E.): Drug and alcohol abuse hits all college campuses. Often, students who are away from home for the first time experiment with new behaviors. They have less parental control, more social acceptance of chemical use—and more substances available. This combination can promote addiction. The C.O.P.E. Program helps colleges identify, assess, and treat students with addiction. Our program gives colleges access to addiction specialists. We can advise college counselors about evaluation and ongoing care. Specifically, we offer:
- Comprehensive evaluation
- Group therapy
- Inpatient treatment
- Motivation enhancement counseling
- On-site assessment
- Training of university staff
- Nurses Helping Nurses: Chemical dependency among health care workers is one of the most serious problems in health care today. Nurses, like everyone else, are not immune to becoming chemically dependent. In fact, they have several challenges that others rarely face. The program helps you with getting proper assessments and referrals, learning to see yourself as caregivers who need to receive care, re-entering their workplace after their treatment is stabilized and legal and financial consequences of chemical dependency. Our basic program includes the following:
- Complete evaluation
- Assignment to the appropriate level of care
- Group therapy with other nurses in recovery
- Additional group therapy and/or individual psychotherapy as needed
- Family Program: The effects of addiction on patients are obvious. Less obvious, but just as devastating, are the effects of addiction on those individuals who care about someone with a substance use disorder. This includes parents, children, spouses, siblings, partners, friends, co-workers, etc. Substance abuse can have serious consequences to everyone involved. Family members may experience financial problems, social isolation, stress-related illnesses, depression, poor job performance, etc.
We know that providing information about addiction and support to family members not only improves the quality of their lives, but also can be one of the greatest predictors of a positive outcome for patients. Family members can get help at the Addiction Institute even if the person with the addiction is not in treatment. Frequently when the family members seek help for themselves, it becomes the beginning of the process of helping the family work on recovery in a meaningful way. Family members receive the following services:- Couples counseling
- Family counseling
- Family support group
- Educational Seminars about families and addiction
- Individual counseling
- Addiction Medicine Service: At our Addiction Medicine Service, we treat a wide variety of problems. Our staff includes an addiction medicine physician and an addiction psychiatrist. We do in-depth assessments to understand what is going on. Then we develop a personalized outpatient treatment plan for you. You can benefit from this program if you work or attend school, and do not require a residential program.
We offer medication management for opioids, alcohol, tobacco, and other substances. You may receive buprenorphine (Suboxone) for opioid dependency. We can also prescribe medication to treat any other psychiatric disorders you may have. In addition, we do one-on-one counseling. We use cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. - Buprenorphine: We use buprenorphine to treat opioid dependence. It is the only opioid that is FDA-approved for use outside of a traditional methadone maintenance program. We use it to help you detox and to stay off opioids, short- and long-term. It is effective for inpatients and outpatients. Our program has three parts:
- Induction is when we switch you from another opioid to buprenorphine. We can do this complex procedure as an inpatient or as an outpatient under a doctor’s guidance.
- Stabilization is finding the dosage of buprenorphine that allows you to participate in therapy and return to work. This can take weeks to months.
- Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist that blocks the effects of opioids. We offer a naltrexone program for people who are interested.