Ep.33 Addiction Treatment | Help People Get Better for Longer

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Topics discussed in this episode

🟣Ryan's story from addiction to private practice to a leadership role in a 14 location Nonprofit

🟣Goal to be the whole health organization of choice locally with a full continuum of care. Whole person. Whole health.

🟣100 beds of residential care.

🟣Outpatient service with walk-in same-day assessments

🟣CCBHC one-stop shop for substance use, behavioral health, and physical health needs

🟣Community response services and street outreach team to work with unsheltered people

🟣From 40-year crisis line to Lincoln's 988 response team

🟣Police Civil Protective Custody for substance-related crimes released to Sobering Center

🟣CenterPointe's braided funding and Nebraska Medicaid expansion

🟣Stigma around harm reduction and ethical principle to respect people making choices for themselves.

🟣Developing relationships with the community opens the door and speeds up help when individuals are ready.

🟣Opioid settlement money used to install Nebraska's first harm reduction vending machine

🟣Drug testing strips and sterile syringe programs are not allowed in Nebraska.

🟣Nebraska Harm Reduction Coalition

🟣Relapse should not mean eviction from a residential program

🟣Helping draft harm reduction bill LB307 and the narrative battle to open ears.

🟣Reasons people don't seek addiction help

🟣Getting away from the war on drugs and incarceration

🟣Lack of diversity in the addiction profession

🟣Renovating a historic building for a new treatment facility

🟣Asking the community what needs to be done

🟣Annual winter essentials donation drive

🟣Need for low-barrier shelters in Lincoln

🟣Help is available, and treatment works.

Addiction Podcast Guest:

Ryan Carruthers, PhD Chief Clinical Officer, CenterPointe

🔗centerpointe.org

✉️rcarruthers@centerpointe.org

❄️Annual Winter Essentials Drive https://centerpointe.org/about/help/winter-essentials-drive.html

Guest location: Nebraska

Addiction Podcast Host:

⁠Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠