Treatment Expectations

Treatment Expectations

Once medication treatment has begun the treatment program expectations are as follows:

1. Completion of 90 support groups in the first 120 days of recovery (meetings are at 8:30 am M-S and 5:45 pm M-F; the 12 Step Group Celebrate Recovery on Sunday also counts as a support group)

2. Monthly Medication Review

3. Monthly Therapy Group (as indicated based on issues)

4. Relapse Prevention Group (12 week group for those testing positive for substances of abuse on their urine drug screens, those refusing or avoiding urine drug screens or those contaminating their urine drug screens or those caught turning in false samples)

Lost Medications

No replacement prescriptions will be provided (No Exceptions)

Different situations that have come up often early in treatment with Suboxone / Subutex include:

1. Stolen from Car

2. Stolen from House

3. Lost it

4. Left at out of town hotel

5. Left at out of town relative

6. Water destroyed it

7. Short changed by pharmacy

8. Loaned to friend

ALL lost, stolen, destroyed medication will be treated as if it has been sold and the person will be placed on daily supervised self administration of medication at Haven Ministries.

Non-Compliance with Recovery

The most common ways people get into trouble in their recovery is by not following through in attending their 90 in 120 Support Groups, Weekly Celebrate Recovery and Pill Counts, Worship Services, or by having positive drug screens. The consequence for these results in intensifying the recovery program and ranges from extending the number of support groups that need to be attended, adding on relapse prevention groups, taking medication daily under supervision at Haven, or no longer prescribing Suboxone / Subutex and instead offering treatment with Naltrexone an opioid blocking agent.