About Canton Potsdam Hospital – Potsdam
Canton Potsdam Hospital in Potsdam, New York, provides comprehensive substance use disorder treatment. This forms part of their behavioral health care. They deliver a personalized continuum of care that includes dual diagnosis treatment. They offer inpatient and outpatient care options. These options incorporate medication assisted treatment as part of their core services.
Medication assisted treatment combines FDA approved medicines and counseling alongside other support services to treat opioid use disorder. Their medication assisted program uses buprenorphine and oral naltrexone as risk reduction medicine. They also use Campral, Vivitrol and Gabapentin. It all depends on your unique condition. These medicines minimize withdrawal symptoms, curb cravings and support long term recovery.
One outstanding feature of this hospital is their unparalleled quality of care. This is made possible by their experienced multidisciplinary care personnel including counselors, psychiatrists and nurses.
Their inpatient rehabilitation facility offers a 17 bed unit where clients receive medically monitored 24 hour structured and personalized care. This program includes mental health and substance abuse counseling, medical treatment and recreational therapy. Depending on your unique condition you may also participate in relapse prevention, self help meetings and aftercare planning. They even offer smoke and tobacco cessation assistance as well as gambling addiction assessments and counseling.
Their aftercare and outpatient programs include individual and group counseling, family sessions and animal assisted therapy. Intensive outpatient care is also available for clients that require more structured care and support than obtainable in standard outpatient programs. Either way, you enjoy the flexibility of receiving therapeutic support while living your normal life. Special substance abuse programs are also available for pregnant and postpartum women.
