Ep.44 Addiction Treatment | Career progression for employees in recovery

Topics discussed in this episode 🟣Leaving a career in finance to overcome addiction and discover purpose working in addiction treatment 🟣Working his way from the bottom as a case manager at a state-funded detox to CEO at Granite Recovery Centers 🟣Driving better outcomes with a full continuum of care instead of "spin dry cycles" 🟣Getting better outcomes for the homeless and/or jobless 🟣Employee success stories from recovery to leadership 🟣Keeping clients in a bubble of safety 🟣Healthy way to reconnect families and define expectations 🟣Same day admissions with transportation if needed 🟣New Hampshire's first residential primary mental health program at Canterbury Behavioral Health 🟣Good community partners 🟣Medicaid work, less profit but the right thing to do 🟣Staffing challenges and telehealth reducing the number of clinician candidates 🟣Internships with local colleges for nurses 🟣How New Hampshire has handled the opiate and fentanyl crisis 🟣For Americans aged 18-45, the leading cause of death is fentanyl overdose 🟣How and why stigma has changed in 20 years 🟣More women in treatment than men 🟣Harm reduction: making lives functional with MAT Addiction Podcast Guest: Eric Ekberg CEO Granite Recovery Centers 🔗https://www.graniterecoverycenters.com/ 🔗LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericekberg/ Guest locations: New Hampshire + Maine 📍Green Mountain Treatment Center | Effingham, NH (detox, residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient treatment) 📍Granite House | Derry, NH (detox and residential 38 beds, mostly Medicaid) 📍Canterbury Behavioral Health | Canterbury, NH (mental health disorders and co-occurring SUD with inpatient, outpatients, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient care) 📍New Freedom Academy | Salem, NH (outpatients, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient) 📍Liberty Bay Recovery Center | Portland, ME (detox, inpatient, intensive outpatient) Addiction Podcast Host: ⁠Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠