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Middlesex Human Service Agency Incorporated/Answer House Recovery Home In Boston, MA
Addiction Treatment Address
Primary Focus Of The Treatment Program
Type Of Treatment Provided
- Drug and alcohol addiction treatment
- Transitional housing, sober living - halfway house
- Pain management using methadone or buprenorphine
- Takes clients on opioid medication (codeine, fentanyl, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, meperidine, methadone, morphine, oxycodone)
Approaches For Addiction Treatment
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) psychotherapy - modification of dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and thoughts
- Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) - mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness
- Counseling approach for addiction treatment
- Counseling for trauma - post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT)- encourages the development of rational thinking
- Twelve step (12 step) approach for addiction treatment
- Brief intervention approach - 15-30 minute meeting to encourage more intensive treatment
- Contingency management (CM) incentivised behavioral therapy
- Motivational interviewing - motivation to make positive changes
- Anger management treatment
- Matrix model - treatment for stimulants
- Prevention of substance abuse relapse
Smoking At The Facility - Policy
Treatment Settings
How The Treatment Facility Operates
- Organization is privately held
Licenses, Certifications, And Accreditations
- State Funded Addiction Treatment Agency
- State Department Of Health (DOH)
- Joint Commission Accreditation - Health Care, Certification
Types Of Payment/Insurance Accepted For Treatment
- No payment accepted
- Federal or Government funded treatment programs
Help With Paying For Treatment
- Income based sliding fee scale
- Payment assistance for treatment - possible financing
Customized Treatment Programs / Groups Available
- Co-occurring / dual diagnosis treatment for addiction
- Seniors / elderly treatment for addiction
- Adult males
- Persons with human immunodeficiency virus - HIV - AIDS
- Trauma - post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experienced by clients
- Sexual abuse trauma treatment
- Domestic and partner violence victims
- Teens and preteens (youth aged 16-24)
Additional Services That Support The Treatment Process
- Case management (create plans for treatment or recovery)
- Peer services (clients in recovery assist others in recovery)
- Other health education services
- Housing services
- Tobacco screening
- Counseling for smoking tobacco
- Comprehensive assessment for substance abuse
- Comprehensive assessment for mental health
- Breath analyzer or blood alcohol testing
- Drug or alcohol urine screening
- Hepatitis B screening
- Hepatitis C screening
- Testing for HIV/AIDS
- Testing for sexually transmitted disease (STD)
- Testing for tuberculosis (TB)
- Planning for discharge
- Aftercare continuing care
- Development of social skills (communication, emotional, decision-making, negotiation, problem solving, conflict resolution, relationships)
- Help with social services (education, food subsidies, health care, job training, subsidized housing)
- Employment counseling or training
- Domestic violence services for family or partner
- Early intervention for HIV - AIDS - human immunodeficiency virus
- HIV - AIDS - human immunodeficiency virus education counseling or support
- Hepatitis A, B, and C education counseling or support
- Substance abuse education
- Mental health services (clinical depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder,post traumatic stress disorder)
- Acupuncture treatment
- Self-help support groups
- Treatment for non-substance abuse addiction disorder
- Gambling addiction treatment
- Internet addiction treatment
- One on one counseling sessions
- Group counseling sessions
Age Range The Treatment Facility Accepts
- Young adults / Teenagers
- Adult clients
Gender Specific Accepted By Treatment Provider
Language Assistance
Treatment For Other Dialect
- French dialect
- Greek dialect
Treatment Facility Website
- http://www.mhsainc.org
Contact This Substance Abuse Treatment Facility
- Phone Number Main: 617-268-7124
