Predicting trends in the addiction treatment industry is important for any detox or rehab facility. Offering these key services, including outdoor adventure therapy, to your available treatment options can help your center attract more people seeking help for substance use and mental health disorders. Read on to learn the top 5 trending topics in the addiction treatment industry.
Summary of the top 5 rehab trends:
- MAT
- Ethics
- Continuum of Care
- Personalized Healthcare
- Mental Health
MAT
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) combines medications such as Suboxone, behavioral health therapy and counseling services to offer a holistic approach to addiction treatment. Unfortunately, MAT is not widely accepted and there is still a great deal of stigma associated with this treatment method.
With many centers experiencing a high recidivism rate, after a short 30-60-90-day stay in treatment, alternative methods, including MAT, may be a viable way to offer a long-term solution to the growing opioid epidemic.
Ethics
The majority of treatment centers operate under an ethical moral code with the goal of helping their clients being their number one priority. However; there are a few unscrupulous centers using unethical methods to market their facility.
Practices, such as patient brokering, referral fees and unnecessary drug tests, are giving this industry a bad name. The number one goal of any and every treatment facility should be to save more lives – period.
Continuum of Care
Mergers and acquisitions are common in the behavioral health industry with larger firms buying out smaller treatment facilities. Besides increasing profit margins, another goal of consolidation is to take a somewhat fragmented industry and offer clients a complete continuum of care.
An example of this is a corporation that owns its own detox facility, addiction treatment center and residential housing units. There is no need for the client to “shop around” for different services, the admissions department and discharge planning team work together to provide the best suite of services from the first call for help all the way through to developing the aftercare plan.
Personalized Healthcare
Long gone are the days of the “one-size-fits-all” treatment program. Offering a customizable treatment plan, that fits the specific needs of each client, is key to long-term success. Also, offering multiple treatment modalities to choose from lets clients feel like they have a say in their treatment plan.
Treatments options such as holistic therapy, adventure therapy, music therapy and equine therapy helps set one center off from the rest. Programs which address specific segments of the population, such as Christian, Veterans, First Responders, LGBTQ, Young Adult, 12-Step, etc. let each client pick the program that is tailor-made just for them.
Mental Health
Mental health is an important part of a comprehensive treatment plan. Many clients are dealing with dual-diagnosis of both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder. Offering co-occurring treatment for both disorders is a big step towards comprehensive care.
For instance, a veteran client may be suffering from PTSD and decides to self-medicate, to help deal ease their pain, which could develop into an opioid use disorder. Instead of treating the mental health and substance abuse as two separate issues, a treatment center creates a comprehensive treatment plan that treats both disorders at the same time.
And there you have it, the current top trending topics in addiction treatment andpopular treatment modalities to add to any full-service addiction treatment or rehab facility.
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