About Northland Intervention – Milford
Northland Treatment Center is located in Milford, Ohio. Northland Treatment Center is a physician-designed drug and alcohol treatment center for the Cincinnati-area and Northern Kentucky.
At Northland, they are committed to addressing each patient and their family’s unique and individual needs for individualized addiction treatment, and in every sphere of life. They adhere to the “medical model” and outpatient treatment of this disease as outlined by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), a division of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS). They strongly support the 12-Step Programs (AA, NA, Ala-non) as a necessary parallel track of recovery to achieve life-long sobriety.
Northland provides advocacy services to those patients making satisfactory progress in treatment when requested or needed by courts, children’s protective service, licensing boards, employers, etc. They often coordinate with attorneys, representing clients of our program, to help get their lives back in order. This may include letters attesting to compliance and progress, accompanying the patient to court, or even testifying in some situations. Northland has many years of experience working with the judicial system and regularly handles Ohio court ordered drug and alcohol evaluations as well as court ordered counseling for patients from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
The ACT program is a risk reduction group focused on education designed to reduce the risk of drug use and problematic alcohol use. Northland’s experienced clinicians assist clients to develop an accurate self-assessment of risk for addiction and to identify and use drug-free coping skills to manage emotions and behaviors that might put you at risk to abuse substances. The program increases knowledge of the impact of substances on the body and brain as well as its impact on interpersonal functioning. Clients will learn the effects of alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, and other drugs on the body and brain and will be able to verbalize an understanding of personal symptoms of use versus addiction. ACT aims to empower clients to construct an action plan to lower the risk for addiction. The group meets once weekly for an hour and a half, for 6 sessions.
The MOTHER program is a 10-week course that offers expectant moms enrolled in Northland’s substance abuse treatment program an additional option for education and support. The curriculum is based upon Stephanie Covington’s A Woman’s Journal Helping Women Recover – A Program for Treating Addiction and participants are encouraged to adopt the Journal’s Sixteen Steps or Discovery & Empowerment.
Northland’s alcohol education program (AEP) teaches about the effects of alcohol, its dangers, impairments upon the body, and potential complications. This program is appropriate for individuals designated as being an alcohol abuser or alcohol-dependant. If you are required to attend the AEP and do not attend all scheduled sessions, it is likely that your license will be revoked.
